So, you can take a piece of jade and shape it into jewelry relatively easily ... glassy, and blue-water. The industry is a valuable one, but one that’s dangerous enough to earn these stones ...

By Victoria Gomelsky One of the first things the jewelry designer Bliss Lau did after giving birth to her daughter, Soa, in 2018 was make her a black jade bracelet. “There are heirlooms and then ...