{"id":12,"date":"2010-08-12T22:41:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T02:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-08-12T22:41:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T02:41:18","slug":"four-strand-spinel-bracelet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/four-strand-spinel-bracelet\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Strand Spinel Bracelet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made this lovely spinel gemstone bracelet as a birthday present to my mom. This was my first time working with spinel. In fact, I&#8217;d never heard of it before making this piece, but I loved the amazing variety of colors in the stone.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spinel is the great impostor of gemstone history: many famous rubies in crown jewels around the world are actually spinels. The most famous is the Black Prince&#8217;s ruby, a magnificent 170-carat red spinel that now adorns the Imperial State Crown of England in the British Crown Jewels after a long history: Henry V even wore it on his battle helmet! The Timur ruby, a 361-carat red spinel now owned by Queen Elizabeth, has the names of some of the Mughal emperors who previously owned it engraved on its face: an undeniable pedigree!<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemstone.org\/gem-by-gem\/english\/spinel.html\" target=\"_blank\">-source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/4-strand-spinel-bracelet1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/4-strand-spinel-bracelet1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"4-strand-spinel-bracelet1a\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/4-strand-spinel-bracelet1a.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/4-strand-spinel-bracelet1a-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/4-strand-spinel-bracelet1b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/4-strand-spinel-bracelet1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"4-strand-spinel-bracelet1b\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/4-strand-spinel-bracelet1b.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/4-strand-spinel-bracelet1b-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love how it came out, even if it was an amazing labor of love!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made this lovely spinel gemstone bracelet as a birthday present to my mom. This was my first time working with spinel. In fact, I&#8217;d never heard of it before making this piece, but I loved the amazing variety of colors in the stone. Spinel is the great impostor of gemstone history: many famous rubies&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,9,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bracelets","category-custom-orders","category-general","category-jewlery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}