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What Our Wonderful Products Are Made Of
Alabastrite
Alabastrite is our product line name for polystone
items. Alabastrite is fashioned by combining oxalate and stone to form a poly stone-based, material. This unique combination allows the sculpting mastery of the artisan to be captured in intricate detail as shown in many of our beautiful products.
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Bone China
White clay with bone ash added. Bone ash content must be
at least 25% by U. S. guidelines. Fired at 1800 degrees. The translucent
material is finished with a glaze or underglaze (matte). Lighter, stronger, more
expensive than porcelain.
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Porcelain
Fine ground white clay, molded and fired in an oven for
eight hours at 1200 degrees. Finished with a glazed, underglazed, or
"bisque" finish. Glazing produces a high gloss; underglaze produces a
matte finish. Bisque is a matte finish without glaze. After finishing, the item
is "cooked" for six hours at 800 degrees.
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Jade Porcelain
Jade porcelain is a type of porcelain made with a finer
clay. Usually no glaze or only a colorless glaze will be applied at the final
firing to show off the very smooth surface and to preserve the translucency.
Jade Porcelain is often used for night lights because of its high
degree of translucency when lit.
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Stoneware
White clay with fine ground stone. Working with
stoneware demands great expertise, and is in fact becoming a lost art. Stoneware
is safe to use in microwave and conventional ovens.
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Patchwork Items
Unique fabric or paper prints are applied to the surface
of porcelain, dolomite or polyresin items. After application, 12 layers of
lacquer are added and the item is hand polished to a high gloss between each
layer.
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Cubic Zircon
The most successful simulated diamond. Properties such as
refraction, hardness, and specific gravity are remarkably similar to diamonds.
Cubic zirconia are very hard to distinguish from diamonds;
sometimes a jewelers loop will be needed to see the difference.
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Diamond
Extremely hard, highly refractive colorless or white
crystalline of carbon. Diamonds, like all gemstones, are judged in terms of
Carats, or weight (different from Karats, as in gold purity).
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Gold
The ultimate precious metal. Virtually indestructible,
amazingly malleable, doesn't rust or tarnish. Graded by purity; in the U.S. a
scale of 24 is used, so 24 Karats (24K) is 100% pure. 18K is 18 parts gold and 6
parts alloy (other metals), and so on. 10K is the legal minimum for Karat-graded
gold. The word "Plumb"
indicates the exact purity of the piece.
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Gemstones
Rubies, sapphires, emeralds and amethysts, often treasured
as birthstones, fall under the category of gemstones. (Birthstones are listed in
the back of your catalog.) Gemstones are priced and graded by Carat weight.
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Pearl
A smooth, lustrous, variously-colored deposit formed
around a grain of sand in the shell of a certain mollusk. Pearls may be formed
naturally or "cultured" through an artificial implanting process.
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Sterling Silver
To qualify as "sterling" a given piece must be
composed of a least 92.5% pure silver.
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Hong Tze
To closely emulate a special stone found in China which is
known for its deep red color, these items are created using an alabastrite
polyresin. Hong Tze pieces are highly polished, further bringing out the
intense, deep red color.
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Frosted Acrylic
Acrylic items are given the French Lilac process, (used on
glass), to achieve the distinctive frosted look. The drama of
frosted glass without the weight.
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Gypsum
Gypsum is a white mineral which is usually used to make
Plaster of Paris.
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Dolomite
A magnesia-rich, sedimentary rock resembling limestone,
dolomite is either gray, pink or white in color.
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