Timshel Jewelry

“'Timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice.”

Unique Hand Made Jewelry

My jewelry is 100% unique and handcrafted. All designs are by Ewa Dominowska and are made using natural gems and stones and a combination of metals. Many stones are found by me in the rough, shaped, polished and incorporated into a one of a kind jewelry piece. Each design aims to highlight the natural beauty of the rock. The stone is shaped in a way that brings out the dominant features and works with the raw elements instead of removing them. Some stones might only be partially polished to provide variety and allow light to play with the rock by breaking and reflecting with different angles and frequencies. Most pieces would have a unique look under different light sources.

Types of Rocks Used

• Agate:
  Agate s a microcrystalline variety of silica, chiefly chalcedony, characterized by its fineness of grain and brightness of color. Although agates may be found in various kinds of rock, they are classically associated with volcanic rocks and can be common in certain metamorphic rocks.
• Amazonite:
  Amazonite (sometimes called "Amazon stone") is a green variety of microcline feldspar.
  The name is taken from that of the Amazon River, from which certain green stones were formerly obtained, but it is doubtful whether green feldspar occurs in the Amazon area.
  Amazonite is a mineral of limited occurrence.
• Amber:
  Amber is fossilized tree resin (not sap), which has been appreciated for its color - clear yellow or orange through red - and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects. There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents. Because it originates as a soft, sticky tree resin, amber sometimes contains animal and plant material as inclusions.
• Amethyst:
  Amethyst is actually a form of Quartz - one of the most common substances on earth.
  Tiny amounts of iron and aluminum turn ordinary clear quartz into amethyst.
  All forms of quartz (including amethyst) are piezoelectric, making for important applications in electronics. Tourmaline is the only other gemstone that possesses this property.
• Aqamarine:
  Aquamarine (from Latin: aqua marina, "water of the sea") is a blue or turquoise variety of beryl. The mineral beryl is a beryllium aluminium cyclosilicate with the chemical formula Be3Al2(SiO3)6. The hexagonal crystals of beryl may be very small or range to several meters in size. Terminated crystals are relatively rare. Pure beryl is colorless, but it is frequently tinted by impurities; possible colors are green, blue, yellow, red, and white.
• Bloodstone:
  The mineral heliotrope, also known as bloodstone, is a form of chalcedony (which is a cryptocrystalline mixture of quartz and its monoclinic polymorph moganite). The "classic" bloodstone is green chalcedony with red inclusions of iron oxide or red jasper. Sometimes the inclusions are yellow, in which case the mineral is given the name plasma.
  The red inclusions are supposed to resemble spots of blood; hence the name "bloodstone". The name "heliotrope" (from Greek ήλιος helios, Sun, τρέπειν trepein, to turn) derives from various ancient notions about the manner in which the mineral reflects light.
• Carnelian:
  Carnelian is a translucent orange to red variety of chalcedony. The red tints are caused by iron oxide impurities.
• Garnet:
  Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. The name "garnet" comes from 14th‑century Middle English word gernet meaning "dark red", from the Latin granatus granatus coming from granum (grain, seed) + suffix "atus", possibly a reference to mela granatum or even pomum granatum, a plant whose fruits contain abundant and vivid red arils, are similar in shape, size, and color to some garnet crystals.
  Garnets possess similar physical properties and crystal forms but different chemical compositions. The different species are pyrope, almandine, spessartine, grossular (varieties of which are hessonite or cinnamon-stone and tsavorite), uvarovite and andradite. The garnets make up two solid solution series: pyrope-almandine-spessarite and uvarovite-grossular-andradite.
• Jade:
  Jade is an ornamental stone. The term jade is applied to two different metamorphic rocks that are made up of different silicate minerals:
  Nephrite consists of a microcrystaline interlocking fibrous matrix of the calcium, magnesium-iron rich amphibole mineral series tremolite (calcium-magnesium)-ferroactinolite (calcium-magnesium-iron). The middle member of this series with an intermediate composition is called actinolite (the silky fibrous mineral form is one form of asbestos). The higher the iron content the greener the colour.
  Jadeite is a sodium- and aluminium-rich pyroxene. The gem form of the mineral is a microcrystaline interlocking crystal matrix.
• Jasper:
  Jasper, a form of chalcedony, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue. This mineral breaks with a smooth surface, and is used for ornamentation or as a gemstone. It can be highly polished and is used for vases, seals, and at one time for snuff boxes. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped or banded jasper. Jaspilite is a banded iron formation rock that often has distinctive bands of jasper. Jasper is basically chert which owes its red color to iron inclusions.
• Onyx:
  Onyx is a banded variety of chalcedony. The colors of its bands range from white to almost every color (save some shades, such as purple or blue). Commonly, specimens of onyx contain bands of black and/or white.
• Opal:
  Opal is an amorphous form of silica related to quartz, a mineraloid form, not a mineral. It is deposited at a relatively low temperature and may occur in the fissures of almost any kind of rock, being most commonly found with limonite, sandstone, rhyolite, marl and basalt.
• Pearl:
  A pearl is a hard object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is made up of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers. The ideal pearl is perfectly round and smooth, but many other shapes of pearls (baroque pearls) occur. The finest quality natural pearls have been highly valued as gemstones and objects of beauty for many centuries, and because of this, the word pearl has become a metaphor for something very rare, fine, admirable, and valuable.
• Quartz Crystal:
  Quartz is an abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust. It is made up of a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall formula SiO2. There are many different varieties of quartz, several of which are semi-precious gemstones. Throughout the world, varieties of quartz have been, since antiquity, the most commonly used minerals in the making of jewelry and hardstone carvings.
• Serpentine:
  The serpentine group describes a group of common rock-forming hydrous magnesium iron phyllosilicate ((Mg, Fe)3Si2O5(OH)4) minerals; they may contain minor amounts of other elements including chromium, manganese, cobalt and nickel.
• Tiger's Eye:
  Tiger's eye is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock that is a golden to red-brown color, with a silky lustre. A member of the quartz group, it is a classic example of pseudomorphous replacement by silica of fibrous crocidolite (blue asbestos). An incompletely silicified blue variant is called Hawk's eye.