Maya Blue Jewelry

Maya Blue Jewlery is an exclusive line designed by Guadalupe Ramirez.   Guadalupe, a native of Guatemela, brings the spirit of her ancestors to life with her attention to esthetics.  While her favorite work is with Jade, she frequently incorporates textile and trade beads with contemporary flare.

Maya Blue is the signiture line of the Pixan.  Pixan  (pronounced pi-shån) means spirit in ancient Mayan.   Pixan is a social enterprise that empowers Maya women to achieve lives of dignity and hope.   In the culture of the ancestors everything is sacred.   Clothes and the elements that comprise them are part of the ever expanding cosmos.  Each individual is an active agent of the never ending process of creation.   Pixan looks at the process of design and production in the eyes of our grandmothers.   We must create a pleasant world based on respect and love.

The Maya valued Jade above gold or diamonds.  The Maya used Jade to heal Kideny disease and for this reason the Spanish called piedra de ijad or stone of the loins.  

Jade is not like most gems, which are single crystals, jadeite is a mass of interlocking crystals.   There are two types of Jade,

n 1863 a n 1863, the French chemist Augustine Damour discovered that the term jade was actually used for two different minerals with different chemical compositions. He created the terms “nephrite” for chinese jade and “jadeite” for guatemalan and burmese jade.

Jadeite is much rarer and more valuable than nephrite.