{"product_id":"amethyst-crazy-lace-agate-tower-polished-six-sided-crystal-point-with-chevron-banding-5-5-inch-standing-obelisk","title":"Amethyst Crazy Lace Agate Tower, Polished Six Sided Crystal Point with Chevron Banding, 5.5 Inch Standing Obelisk","description":"\u003cp\u003eA polished tower that reads like a cross section of how the earth actually builds a stone. Soft violet amethyst crowns the point. Below it runs a crisp band of lace in white, dove gray and red brown. Then the body opens into a wide field of translucent lavender quartz, clouded and glowing, with fine rust colored threads of iron drifting through it. At the base the banding returns and folds into deep chevrons of caramel, cream and cocoa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurn it and the story changes. One face is nearly all quartz, pale and luminous, the kind of surface that drinks light and holds it. Another carries a warm cream panel set into the point like an inlay. The back is banded from top to bottom. It is one stone doing four different things depending on where you stand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrazy lace agate is named for exactly what you see at the base here, banding that refuses to run straight and instead loops, folds and doubles back on itself. Finding it capped with amethyst in a single piece is the uncommon part, and it is why this material gets cut into towers rather than tumbled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe product photographs show the exact piece you will receive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStone: amethyst with crazy lace agate, chalcedony and quartz, with iron oxide inclusions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: about 5 and a half inches tall and about 2 inches wide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeight: 13.8 oz (390 g)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForm: polished tower with a pointed six sided top, stands on its own\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardness: 7 (Mohs)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease note: this is a natural stone. The fine lines visible in the pale panel near the point are healed seams inside the agate, sealed smooth beneath the polish, and they are part of how this banded material forms rather than damage. There are also a few tiny dings and nicks on the surface that you can catch with a fingernail, the ordinary marks a polished stone picks up on its way to you. Expect small variations in clarity and pattern from face to face. You are receiving the exact piece shown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmethyst is the quiet one of the quartz family, the stone people reach for when the mind will not stop talking. It has been kept for centuries as a companion to rest, to clear thinking, and to the moment at the end of a day when everything finally lets go. A piece of it in a room is traditionally treated as an invitation to lower your shoulders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrazy lace agate brings the opposite character, and that is the point of the pairing. Where amethyst settles, lace agate moves. Its whole personality lives in that restless banding, the pattern that will not sit still, and it is kept as a stone of laughter, momentum, and the willingness to change direction without treating it as failure. Together they make a piece that calms without flattening you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tower form is read as focus, energy gathered wide at the base and carried up to a single point. A tower is traditionally placed where intentions are set, a desk, an altar, a windowsill that catches first light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause natural minerals are delicate and can be damaged by the stress of shipping, we are unable to accept returns. If your item arrives damaged, please contact us within 48 hours with photos and we will make it right.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gems \u0026 Stems","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44109487603790,"sku":"ACL-TW-01","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/5666\/5166\/files\/01-lifestyle_53d4b138-4960-4ed0-a5f3-0d63badb8ca6.jpg?v=1785779180","url":"https:\/\/shopgemsandstems.com\/products\/amethyst-crazy-lace-agate-tower-polished-six-sided-crystal-point-with-chevron-banding-5-5-inch-standing-obelisk","provider":"Gems \u0026 Stems","version":"1.0","type":"link"}