Journal

Journal

Writing on amber

Longer than a product page and more useful than a caption. One piece every fortnight.

Copal is not amber, and the difference is in your hand

The commonest substitution in the trade, and the physical tests that separate them.

Reading an inclusion

Why a whole midge near the surface outranks a large fragment buried deep.

On wearing a soft stone

Amber sits at 2 to 2.5 on the Mohs scale. Everything follows from that.