About the product:

💎 Mineral/Gem Type: Ruby

🌍 ⛏️ Origin: India

📐 Stone/gem dimensions: 38 mm wide x 8 mm high x 8 mm thick

⚖️ Weight Approximately 4.2 grams

🔷 Shape: Natural

🔬 Treatment: None

📜 Certificate: Zen Curiosity

📦 Packaging: Individually wrapped in paper and cardboard

🎁 Ideal as a gift or a treat for yourself!

🕰️ A brief history of brooches

Brooches are among the oldest jewelry known to humankind. Originally, in prehistoric times and later among the Celts, Vikings, and Romans, they primarily served as fibulae , that is, actual fasteners to secure clothing, cloaks, and fabrics. They were therefore both practical and symbolic.

Over the centuries, their role has transformed: from the Middle Ages to European royal courts, the brooch became a jewel of power, displaying wealth, social status and belonging to a clan or family.

In Victorian times, it was charged with emotions: mourning brooches, medallion brooches, portrait brooches… Then, in the 20th century, it was freed and became a fashion accessory in its own right, worn on coats, hats, scarves or bags.

Today, the brooch is making a strong comeback: a blend of vintage charm, handcrafted elegance and creative freedom.

💎 Interest and usefulness of pins

A versatile decorative jewel

• Can be worn over a jacket, coat, sweater, bag, hat, scarf.
• Allows you to add a touch of style: chic, bohemian, artistic or minimalist.

A practical function

• To secure or adjust a lightweight garment.
• Hold a shawl or scarf in place.
• Customizing a garment without sewing.

A gem of personal expression

• Allows you to display a symbol, a stone, an energy, a message.
• Ideal for collections, handcrafted pieces or mineral creations.

A symbolic dimension according to tradition:

• serves as a protective amulet,
• wears an energy stone
• accompanies an intention (grounding, confidence, calming...).

• 📋 Mineralogical Fact Sheet

• Property	Details

  Name

  Ruby

  Composition

  Aluminium oxide (corundum) with traces of chromium (responsible for the red colour)

  Color

  Bright red to deep red (the most sought-after being "pigeon's blood" red)

  Hardness (Mohs)

  9

  Density

  3.9 – 4.1 g/cm³

  Crystalline system

  Hexagonal (trigonal)

  Glow	Vitreous to adamantine

  Transparency

  Transparent to opaque

  Origin / Deposits

  Burma (Myanmar), Sri Lanka, Thailand, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Afghanistan

  Training

  Formed in aluminum-rich metamorphic rocks, under high pressure and heat

  Special feature

  One of the hardest natural minerals; chatoyancy or asterism (star ruby) possible

  Properties / Lithotherapy

  • Vitality, courage, inner strength ❤️🔥 • Stimulates passion, willpower, and life energy • Stone of protection and grounding of the heart

  Purification

  Clear water, fumigation (sage, incense), its

  Reloading

  Soft sunlight, moonlight, quartz geode

  Use	Fine jewelry, talismans, energy work, meditation

  Value

  Very high; depends on color, transparency, size and origin (Burma = premium)

  Short story / Anecdote

  Known as the "stone of kings," the ruby ​​symbolizes the fire of life. In ancient times, it was believed to contain an eternal flame capable of protecting its wearer and bringing prosperity.