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Creative Beading: The Best Projects from a Year of Bead & by Editors of Bead&Button Magazine

By Editors of Bead&Button Magazine

Inventive Beading, Vol. three: the simplest tasks from a 12 months of Bead & Button journal КНИГИ ; ХОББИ и РЕМЕСЛА Название: inventive Beading, Vol. three: the simplest tasks from a yr of Bead & Button journal Издательство: Kalmbach Publishing corporation Год: 2008 Формат: PDF Размер: 30.40 Mb Страниц: 236 Язык: английский Для сайта: www.mirknig.comВ книге представлены лучшие проекты популярного журнала "Bead & Button" с пошаговыми иллюстрациями и схемами. uploading.com.com eighty five

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When you combine colors and types with grade bumping (see page 195), two diamonds can have the perception of being the same, but be from different parts of the rainbow. qxd:Layout 1 6/12/08 10:41 AM Page 24 How to Buy a Diamond When will the labs start breaking down each color into types? Who knows! I know the price guides won’t be the vanguard until at least one lab steps up to tell us that not all identical diamonds of the same color are created equal. Naturally an F(1) should cost more than an F(5).

The biggest diamond ever found in the United States is the Uncle Sam from Arkansas: 40 carats. 5 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for a diamond. qxd:Layout 1 6/12/08 10:41 AM Page 7 1 Chapter The 4 Cs Inclusions - Imperfections inside a diamond. Carbon: Black spots inside a stone. Feather: Internal cracking. Crystal: White spots inside a stone. Pinpoint: Tiny spots, smaller than a crystal. Cloud: A group of pinpoints, which may give the impression of a single large inclusion. Loupe - (pronounced “loop”) A small magnifying glass used to view gemstones.

The truth is that even though a diamond is hard (hardness being a stone’s resistance to being scratched, and the only thing that can scratch a diamond is another diamond), that doesn’t mean a diamond is tough (toughness being a stone’s resistance to breakage). You see, a diamond can cleave in four directions, meaning it can be damaged. qxd:Layout 1 6/12/08 10:41 AM Page 12 How to Buy a Diamond A diamond is the hardest thing in the world, but not the toughest. I don’t recommend wearing the highest clarity grade diamonds, because it is possible for someone to buy a VVS, or flawless diamond, and through normal wear lower the clarity grade to a VS or even SI grade.

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