Atlas / For love / Rose quartzNo. 25

Plate IWorldwide · Modern Rose quartz, drawn by Wishlore

Pl. IRose quartz. A rough piece of pale pink quartz. Drawing: Wishlore.

No. 25 · For love · Worldwide

Rose quartz

A pale pink stone that shops call the love stone. That idea starts in New Age books of the 1980s. Before that, rose quartz was mostly carved into beads and seals.

Earliest record: No early record
Source: No early record
Region: Worldwide · Modern
Wish: For love
Layers: Record Folk Modern

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The story · three layers

The story, in three layers.

Record, Folk and Modern are kept apart, and each one carries its source.

Record

Not recorded

No early record of love

We found no early record linking rose quartz with love.

Folk

Before the 1980s

Beads and seals

Before the 1980s, rose quartz was mostly carved into beads and seals, as GIA tells its history. We found nothing in that history about love.

To verify: Confirm this on the GIA page, with dates and places for the beads and seals

III

Modern

Books and shops, from the 1980s

“The love stone”

Shops call rose quartz the love stone. That idea starts in New Age books of the 1980s. A lovely stone, with a young story.

To verify: Confirm the 1980s origin on the GIA page

Rose quartz

No early record

Story and sources on the reverse

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Watch the story

The story, in a minute.

It opens with the pencil construction, then follows the record, how people used it, and the piece we make today. Every fact in it comes from the sources on this page.

Length: 0:55
Narration: English, with subtitles on screen
Images: Pencil construction and the atlas drawing on this page, animated; no AI images; jewellery shown as a line drawing
Sources: Listed at the end of the film

Story film · 0:55 · Drawn from the atlas plate · no AI images

In one breath

A lovely stone, with a young story. Who would you keep it for?

Rose quartz

The story, in three layers.

No early record of love

Beads and seals

“The love stone”

How would you like to keep it?

The story, in a minute.

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