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Knotted by hand on golden strands, gemstones cluster like sweet ripe grapes. Nareerat creates these elegant earrings with golden pearls, bright carnelian, and green and beige quartz.

.925 Sterling silver hooks

Dazzling garnet gemstones top smooth carnelian gemstones in sterling silver bezel settings. These charming dangle earrings are designed by Indian artisan Shanker, who uses a sterling silver hinge to join the two gemstones together in a pretty union.

Energize your whole day with the cheeriness of this bright orange cocktail ring from India's Bhavya Jain. The artisan uses a smooth, round carnelian gemstone in a bezel setting to create the ring, circling the gem with pretty sterling silver dot work. A narrow sterling silver band contrasts with the ring's large crown.

A single stone of natural carnelian possesses a fiery orange-red glow, cradled at the top of this ring from Bali. Local artisans craft the ring by hand, elaborating the sterling silver band with intricate spiral motifs that evoke the beauty of Uluwatu Temple, located on a towering cliff above the sea.

Nareerat celebrates autumn in Thailand with these colorful earrings. Knotted by hand on silken threads, bright carnelian and yellow quartz crown tiger's eye. The earrings hang from sterling silver hooks.

.925 Sterling silver

Colorful gems of powerful beauty are designed to align with their respective chakras in a ring from Alok Jain. Crafted of sterling silver, the ring is crowned with amethyst, iolite, citrine, peridot, garnet, blue topaz and carnelian set within a gentle curve. Their colors correspond to a specific chakra for clear and light purple stones are associated with the 7th chakra (awareness and wisdom); the purple, violet and indigo gems with the 6th chakra (insight and perception), and the blue or light blue with the 5th, that of communication and truth. Green and pink stones are for love and compassion, linked to the heart, on the 4th chakra. For inner power and will, the 3rd chakra is associated with yellow gems, whereas emotion and sexuality are linked to red and orange gems for the 2nd chakra. Black gems are used to stimulate the 1st chakra, that of stability and security.

In Sanskrit, chakra refers to an energy vortex through which vital universal forces are channeled, and there are believed to be seven in the human body. When all seven are aligned the person feels a healthy sense of well-being.

.925 Sterling silver.