Nature’s Palette: Artisan Peanut wood Jasper Jewelry

Jasper is a gemstone that belongs to the quartz family. It is an opaque and impure type of silicon dioxide. The name “Jasper” derives from the Greek word “spotted stone.” The word “spotted stone” refers to the stone’s striped, multicoloured, spotted, and flamed look. Jasper is a dense substance comprising up to 20 per cent of foreign materials. Due to these impurities, you will rarely find a uniformly formed jasper.Peanut wood jasper is a form of fossilised or petrified wood. The organic material of peanut wood jasper Jewelry is replaced by agate during the decomposition process, and this turns wood into stone over a long period. Before the petrification of the wood, the driftwood in the ocean got attacked by small marine shellfish called “teredo.” This teredo bore small tunnels into the wood, perforating the entire piece of boreholes.