A pendant is the only jade that carries a specific message. A bracelet says jade; a pendant says something particular. A Ping An Kou wishes you safe passage, a dragon speaks of authority and vitality, a heart says what a heart says, and a clover borrows a Western wish onto a Chinese stone. This is why a necklace is the most given piece of jade jewellery in the world — the giver chooses the carving, and the carving does the talking. The section below helps you choose by meaning rather than by picture.
Everything hangs from one small point, so that is where we look first. A pendant carries its whole weight through a single drilled hole or bail seat, through thousands of small movements a day. A hole cut too near an edge, or running close to an existing stone line, is the most common reason a good stone eventually fails — and it is invisible in a front-facing photograph. We inspect that geometry before a piece is strung, and we will send you a photograph of the back and bail of any piece on request, because that is the part worth seeing.
Both jades, and an honest recommendation between them. Most sellers carry one material and tell you it is the better one. We carry both: jadeite for translucency — a jadeite pendant is the one piece of jade you can hold up to a window and judge for yourself — and nephrite for warmth and the highest toughness of any gem material, which matters exactly at the drill point.
We buy our own rough, at both sources. Our jadeite comes from Hpakant in northern Myanmar, where our founder has been buying rough since 2016; our nephrite comes from Xinjiang. Every piece is then cut, carved and strung in our Kunming workshop — not bought finished from a wholesaler's tray on someone else's word about what it is. More about how BMjade started.
Natural and untreated — in the terms proper to each stone. For jadeite that means Type A: never acid-bleached, never resin-impregnated, never dyed. Nephrite has no Type A / B / C system — that classification belongs to jadeite alone — so our nephrite is described as natural and untreated, with colour, texture and origin stated. We stock neither treated jadeite nor dyed or wax-coated nephrite.
