Can I see stones before committing?

Yes. We send images and video of the actual stones against your requirement, with weights, dimensions and the disclosure recorded for each.

Can you find a colour I have only got a photograph of?

Often. Send the image and say what light it was shot under. A photograph is a far better brief than a colour name, particularly in tourmaline where the terms are used loosely across the market.

Trade supply

For Jewellery Designers

Single stones and suites assembled to a colour brief rather than to a stone list.

Send Your Requirement Browse Gemstones

A suite of green and teal tourmalines in direct sunlight — pear, oval and emerald cuts casting coloured shadows, with one red-brown bi-colour stone.

Send a palette, not a parts list

Designers usually know the colour story before they know the species, and a requirement written that way is often easier to fill than one written as a stone list. If you send the palette, the size range and the piece count, we can work back to what is available.

That approach also opens up species you might not have specified. A colour you were going to buy as sapphire may be available in tourmaline or spinel at a fraction of the cost, or in a saturation sapphire will not give you.

Where the interesting colour is

Tourmaline has the widest colour range of any species and most of it is untreated, which makes it the natural first stop for palette-led work.

Spinel covers the greys, lavenders and mauves that nothing else does, and is almost always untreated. For a brand positioned on natural material, it is one of the easiest stories to tell honestly.

Parti and bi-colour stones — sapphire as well as tourmaline — give you two colours in one stone, and are single-stone purchases by nature.

Suites and one-off stones

A suite assembled to a brief is usually more useful to a designer than a parcel bought on size alone. Tell us the colours, the size range and the number of pieces.

For a centre stone, send the setting constraints with the colour brief — dimensions, depth limit and setting method. It saves finding the right colour in the wrong stone.

Buyer questions