GLEAM OF SPINEL

Ace your jewellery fascination with spinel’s reflection this season with the gemstone’s beauty, resilience and a light-on-the-purse advantage

- Pramita bose

All that glitters is certainly not gold. But all that is radiantly red is not a ruby either. A line of luminous crystals, emitting vivid colours and dazzling like a prized precious stone is catching jewellery designers’ fancy to craft out some amazing pieces for your jewellery box. Spinel is the latest medium for creating intricate patterns and interesting motifs for the die-hard connoisseurs.

Call it high fashion or old-world allure, spinel saga is twisting, bending and turning the wires and beads to weld an attractive collection of sparkling gems.

Spinel mania

When quizzed about the undying rage of scintillating spinel, reputed jewellery designer Pallavi Foley reasons that “spinel is causing such a craze as a fashion statement solely because of its remarkable aesthetics, extraordinary palette range, matchless brilliance, unfading durability and increasing affordability compared to more famous gemstones that it can rival with.”

From artisans of handcrafted jewellery to the makers of leading fashion brands, all are agog with excitement to explore deeper and know more about the ‘gleaming wonder’ spinel. Designer Archana Aggarwal of Timeless Jewellery label thinks that “spinel’s rise in popularity stems from its rare combination of brightness, endurance, vibrant hues and accessible price points visa-vis rubies or sapphires.”