Banded gold that shifts as it turns. Protection with something watchful in it.
The aesthetic
Tiger's eye is quartz that has grown through and replaced a fibrous blue mineral, keeping the fibre structure and inheriting a silky band of light that slides across the surface as the stone is turned. The usual colour is gold and brown from oxidised iron. Where the iron has not oxidised the stone stays blue-grey and is called hawk's eye, and where it has been reddened by heat it becomes bull's eye.
The dynamic
Tiger's eye is traditionally worn for protection, courage and steadiness, and is described as a stone for seeing a situation clearly before acting in it.
Some variations
- gold tiger's eye
- hawk's eye
- bull's eye
- pietersite
- tiger iron