Lapis Teardrop Wing Earrings lapis Orange Kyanite and Iolite to

Orange Kyanite and Iolite to steal your heart away

A forged and stamped flower decorated the pendant top

Shapes hand sawn from sterling sheet and framed with sterling wires

1 and 1/2" long with handmade sterling ear wires

1/2" diameter sterling base

Lapis Teardrop Wing Earrings lapis Orange Kyanite and Iolite toLapis Lazuli stone is well known and used by ancient cultures. In the middle ages, painters ground up lapis lazuli to make the deep blue paint called ultramarine the blue used to paint the robes of Mary of Nazareth on church walls and ceilings like in the Sistine Chapel. Lapis has been associated with strength and courage, royalty and wisdom, intellect and truth. Although Cleopatra was known to use ground lapis lazuli as eyeshadow to improve eyesight,