Verde Ring

Raw and uneven. That's the point.

A beaded ring built on matte Black Onyx, with raw Malachite chips clustered at the front. The green is deep and uneven — banded, textured, each chip a different shape. A single silver spacer sits at the base. Size 7, hand-finished for daily wear.

• Elements: Natural Black Onyx beads, natural Malachite chips, silver metal spacer, elastic core
• Size: 7
• Rarity: Limited seasonal release.
• Associations: Scorpio (Malachite) | Capricorn (Onyx) | Leo (Onyx)

Express your natural beauty with GAIA pieces, handcrafted with care in Egypt.

Malachite was among the first stones worked by ancient Egyptians — not as ornament, but as pigment. Ground into powder, it produced the green used in eye cosmetics and wall paintings across dynastic periods. By the New Kingdom, it had moved from workshop to tomb: carved Malachite amulets appear in burial assemblages alongside gold and lapis lazuli, placed as objects of protection. The stone was also mined extensively in the Sinai, where Egyptian expeditions left inscriptions recording the scale of extraction. Its green was not decorative first — it was industrial, then sacred. — Aldred, C., Jewels of the Pharaohs, Thames & Hudson, 1971