Serpentine
Serpentine is an exquisite stone which allows the scutpor to achieve fine details. It comes in various colors, such as black & green serpentine with fleched and veined
Cobalt
Cobalt ​is a beautiful stone that is often purple with variations of yellow and white markings and stripes throughout. It can have brown/orange markings.
This stone is mined out of Zimbabwe's Great Dyke which is a 2.5 billion year old horse-shoe ridge of 310 miles stretching through the North and East of Zimbabwe.
Verdite
Known as "green gold" because of its increasing rarity, Verdite is an exclusive emerald looking stone with green and brown striations. It is a semi-precious gemstone that is becoming scarce to find and even the more, priceless.
Opal
Opalstone is famous for its milky light coloured greens and smooth texture. It is also unique in that it has fewer colour variations than Serpentine. A beautiful light greenish serpentine. Opal stone is a very hard stone finely textured with an almost translucent surface sometimes specked with red, orange and bluish dots and patches.
Green Opal
Usually a much deeper colouration all over the stone, more colourful and a harder stone to sculpt than the usual Opal Stone, mostly due to the particles of quartz found within the stone. Lemon Opalstone is easily identified by contrasting yellow striations within the stone.
Malachite
Malachite stone is a beautiful, luxurious, and powerful Gemstone. It is recognized for its striking green color ranging from pastel green to bright green and ending at the dark green spectrum. The colour can vary from dark blackish green to a pale yellowish green but usually there is a combination of colours in each stone with concentric banding of the various shades. The result being a very attractive appearance.
Since ancient times it has been used for ornaments and jewellery. It has been associated with physical benefits like reducing swollen joints, helping to alleviate menstruation, provide peaceful sleep, improve the circulation and immune system, and detoxify the liver.
Having Malachite in the home is also said to help maintain emotional balance for all family members.
Butter Jade
Butter Jade stone is an expensive gemstone that is highly praised by carvers and is a light green stone that has flecks of black and darker green color in it that give the stone a marbled look. This hard stone has been around for some 50 million years.
Lapidolite
Lepidolite is a lilac-gray or rose-colored. This beautiful stone that is purple, this stone is absolutely stunning, especially in natural daylight. The colour can vary and is either dark purple or light, a colour not easily replicable.
ABOUT WOODEN PRODUCTS
Ebony
Ebony is an expensive and dense wood highly sought after. It is finely textured and has a
mirror finish when polished, making it valuable as an ornamental wood. Seen as
symbol of power, purity, balance, protection and luck.
Mukwa
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Mukwa wood polishes well and is used to make good quality furniture that has an
attractive light brownish-yellow colour. The wood is resistant to termites, is durable
and has a pleasing spicy fragrance. The wood doesn't swell nor shrink.
Ironwood
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Ironwood has a reputation for hardness, and is fine grained, and heavy. It is widely
used for African and artefacts.