Elongated T Bar Collection

There is a reason elongated tourmalines look the way they do. Tourmaline crystallizes in the trigonal system, growing along a single dominant axis — the c-axis — that produces long, prismatic columns. The stripes visible on the surface of a rough tourmaline crystal are growth striations, running parallel to that axis. When a cutter works with this material, they have a choice: cut across the crystal and lose the length, or honor the geometry and preserve it.

The stones in the new T Bar collection were cut the second way. Each one is between 21 and 28 millimeters long and 3 to 4.5 millimeters wide — aspect ratios between 4.8 and 7.7 that make a ring setting impractical and a pendant inevitable. The length is the point.

The T Bar pendant is a hand-carved bezel with an integrated bail. Set vertically, the stone drops straight down from the chain — the full color transition readable from top to bottom, the length of the crystal visible as a single uninterrupted element. Set horizontally, it becomes a bar pendant: the stone reads across the collarbone, the color shift moving left to right.