Among colored gemstones, green has always held a special fascination for our founder, Jean Marie. For decades, she has searched the world for exceptional green stones, drawn to their rarity, vivid natural color, and unmistakable vitality. Fine tsavorite is especially elusive. Finding enough beautiful stones to create a long, graceful strand—with harmonious color and carefully graduated shapes—is rarer still.
Tsavorite is the vivid green variety of grossular garnet, first discovered in Tanzania in 1967 and named for Kenya’s Tsavo region. It remains one of the rarest green garnets, prized for a color that occurs naturally in the stone. Garnet has long carried symbolic associations with protection, vitality, and enduring affection. Tsavorite’s lively green adds another layer of meaning: a personal emblem of renewal, growth, and the promise of new beginnings.
After years of cultivating relationships with trusted gemstone dealers and master artisans, Jean Marie finally found these remarkable smooth-polished tsavorite garnets. She selected them for their luminous color, pleasing oval shape, and subtle shifts in green from bead to bead. Rather than seek perfect uniformity, she was drawn to the way the stones move through spring green, deep forest, and rich emerald tones, each bringing its own character to the whole. In their differences, they create a strand that feels alive.
Hand strung in a graceful graduation from approximately 3 mm to 6.5 mm, this magnificent 44-inch necklace carries the eye along its length in a flowing succession of polished green. The stones glow with a soft, natural luster, inviting a closer look at their variations in color and translucence. Its generous length lends it a quiet drama: worn long, it creates an elegant opera-length line; doubled, it becomes a layered statement close to the neckline.
Each stone was carefully polished and strung by master artisans in India, drawing on generations of lapidary skill. The smooth surfaces preserve the softness of each oval while bringing forward the gemstone’s rich color and gentle sheen. Finished with an 18-karat gold-plated sterling silver clasp, the necklace balances the warmth of gold with the cool, living greens of the tsavorites.
This is not a necklace designed for mass production. Its creation depended on years of searching, trusted relationships, and access to beautiful tsavorites rarely encountered in a long, graduated strand. The result is a singular piece, created exclusively for Pax Philomena and shaped by Jean Marie’s lifelong instinct for finding stones with uncommon color and presence. It is unlikely that another necklace will have quite this combination of length, scale, graduation, and green.
Wear it as a dramatic opera-length strand over silk or crisp linen, or double it for a more intimate, layered look. Against one of our flowing Pax Philomena tunics or kaftans, its luminous greens become an arresting focal point—an expressive piece to treasure and wear in your own way.
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Length: 44"
Stone size: Graduated, approximately 3 mm–6.5 mm
Approximate total weight: 66 g / 2.3 oz
Approximate gemstone weight: 333 ct
Clasp: 18-karat gold-plated sterling silver
Handmade in India
