Red Carnelian Crystal Bracelet smudge sticks yet it draws a red-brown

yet it draws a red-brown line

Handcrafted with care

and the only stone here named after an accident: Murano glassworkers spilled copper into molten glass

the five sticks read as a complete sampling of the workshop's vocabulary - different burn characters

dragon's blood and other resin incense

Red Carnelian Crystal Bracelet smudge sticks yet it draws a red-brownCarnelian a warm orange red chalcedony, translucent and lit from within, the stone Rome cut into signet rings because hot wax would not stick to it. From India, strung on elastic cord. It is microcrystalline quartz coloured by iron oxide the same element that rusts orange, dissolved through the silica to a glow that runs apricot to deep brownish red, often within a single strand. The peoples of the Indus etched it thousands of years ago, Egypt set it