I’ve just bought a selection of new agates from http://www.rayer-minerals.com/, the site of a lifelong Dutch collector, Henk Rayer. He has, he tells me, ‘a basement full of rocks’, including many from European countries – Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands – which are scarcely represented amongst the Formations images. One of his specialities, still well represented on the site, used to be drawings of clowns dressed in agate costumes – perhaps I should try to interest the next touring circus to come to Cardiff in some digitally printed fabric!
Both the images above come from agates found in a gravel pit at Arcen in The Netherlands. The brilliant red, hematite-dappled one is a greatly enlarged passage a few millimetres across on the original specimen, while the other must pack more colour changes into a few centimetres than any almost any agate I’ve scanned: I have a feeling it’s going to find its way onto silk at the earliest opportunity.
More than happy with the quality of Henk’s materials I’ve ordered some unique materials from him – a set of eight large cabochons commissioned from a Russian polisher using very rare agate from Kazakhstan. Needless to say, I’ll be posting some images from them at the earliest opportunity.
Both the images above come from agates found in a gravel pit at Arcen in The Netherlands. The brilliant red, hematite-dappled one is a greatly enlarged passage a few millimetres across on the original specimen, while the other must pack more colour changes into a few centimetres than any almost any agate I’ve scanned: I have a feeling it’s going to find its way onto silk at the earliest opportunity.
More than happy with the quality of Henk’s materials I’ve ordered some unique materials from him – a set of eight large cabochons commissioned from a Russian polisher using very rare agate from Kazakhstan. Needless to say, I’ll be posting some images from them at the earliest opportunity.
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