SC - Gemstones

[Olwen the Odd]

Cool, someone just brought a lapiadary saw to the Guild Barn.  Let's talk..
Olwen


>From: david friedman <ddfr at best.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - Gemstones
>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:37:39 -0700
>
>Those gems might be nice on a dress, but they are useless for
>medicinal purposes. They didn't exist in period, so we don't know
>what their virtues are, so we have no idea which ones would cure and
>which ones would make the patient worse.
>
>Note that the original recipe gave a list of candidate gems. You are
>supposed to select from that list that ones that are good for what
>ails you, according to the advice of your physician.
>
>Anyway, if you need gems, I have lots of rough.
>
>At 6:18 PM +0000 10/6/00, Olwen the Odd wrote:
>>OK, we have a volunteer with the gems, who's got the chicken?
>>
>>>From: Christine A Seelye-King <mermayde at juno.com>
>>>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>>>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>>>Subject: SC - Gemstones
>>>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 01:06:41 -0400
>>>
>>>The stones that are sewn to my dress for this weekend are called
>>>"fiber-eye".  They are made from fiber optic glass, and have a
>>>saffire/tiger eye quality to them.  They are classified as semi-precious.
>>>
>>>Christianna
>>>
>>>On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:31:14 -0700 david friedman <ddfr at best.com> writes:
>>>>  At 1:55 PM +0000 10/5/00, Erika Thomenius wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  >Also, you can get lab-grown stones a lot of places.  (ex.
>>>>  >www.thaigem.com).. Would that be cheating?  :)
>>>>
>>>>  I don't know--it depends whether synthetics have the same virtues as
>>>>
>>>>  natural. Clearly you have to do some research. I suggest going
>>>>  through one of the medieval lapidaries to find out what virtues each
>>>>
>>>>  stone has, then constructing suitable tests. I don't think you can
>>>>  get synthetic amethyst, so the "does it protect me from getting
>>>>  drunk" test, however entertaining, may not be an option. And some of
>>>>
>>>>  the others might be a bit hazardous. Be selective.
>>>>
>>>>  A further consideration is that something labelled "synthetic X" may
>>>>
>>>>  actually be "synthetic Y in a color that looks like X." Many
>>>>  synthetic gemstones are either corundum or spinel, colored to match
>>>>  whatever they are supposed to be.
>>>>  --
>>>>  David/Cariadoc
>>>>  http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
>>>>
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