0.94 Ct. Garnet from Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

In a hush between dusk and dawn, a single flame of red rests beneath your palm, an oval heart of light weighing 0.94 carat, measured with the gentle precision of 6.65 x 4.88 x 3.19 mm. This transparent garnet carries the deep, vivid hue of late summer pomegranate seeds, the kind of color that keeps its warmth like an ember tucked into winter clothing. Cut in a mixed brilliant style, every facet has been arranged to capture and scatter light like whispered confessions, each mirror polish an echo of devotion, excellent and flawless under the hand. Originating from the storied soils of Ceylon Sri Lanka, this gem is untouched by enhancement, a piece of earth offered exactly as it was formed, its clarity judged at eye level as eye clean, a purity that asks nothing of artifice and everything of truth. When you hold it, you see through the gem and you see into a story, clear as glass and rich as wine, a jewel that refuses to hide its heart from you.

Imagine a promise made on a warm evening by the sea, the horizon bruised with color that matches this garnet, a vow spoken in the language of stars, a ring or pendant cradling this stone as if to keep that original sunset forever close. The red here is not merely color, it is a memory made tangible, a cadence of pulses and promises, vivid enough to be felt when your fingers brush the setting. The eye clean clarity means the gem offers an honest gaze, free of blemish at the level of sight, suggesting a love that requires no disguise, a devotion that does not need to be polished to be admired. The mixed brilliant cut plays with light in a way that mirrors the many-sided nature of relationships, sometimes bright and scattershot like laughter, sometimes deep and reflective like quiet talks. Each facet is a chapter, each plane a whispered line, the excellent polish ensuring those chapters turn smoothly, without rough edges to catch the hand of time.

At The Natural Gemstone Company we present this garnet not as an object but as an emissary of feeling, a small red sun to be set into the piece that will tell your story. We pride ourselves on provenance and honesty, offering a gem from Ceylon Sri Lanka, natural and untreated, a gemstone that holds its own history in every ray it returns. Picture it cradled in gold or silver, placed over a pulse where the chest keeps rhythm, or resting against a collarbone where it catches the light with every breath taken together. For an engagement, an anniversary, or a quiet ritual of everyday promise, this garnet offers vivid color intensity and a presence that is both intimate and undeniable. Allow us to guide you in selecting the setting that lets this stone sing, to advise on the care that will keep its polish like new for years of shared sunsets, and to help you choose a mounting that respects its origins and magnifies its voice. This garnet waits to become a talisman for the immediate and the eternal, a small luminous argument in favor of love, held and offered with the care and knowledge that are the hallmarks of The Natural Gemstone Company.