Black Tourmaline bracelet
A borosilicate that generates a charge when you warm it.
Pick this one if your work brings other people’s moods home.
- 8mm round beads on elastic, about 7–7.5 inches: fits most adult wrists
- Laboratory certificate naming the material, in the box
- Any dyeing or heat treatment stated on the invoice
- Free delivery over ₹1,599 · dispatched in three to five working days
Seven-day returns. Unworn and in the original packing, back within seven days of delivery, full refund including what you paid for delivery. If it arrives damaged, send a photograph on WhatsApp within 48 hours and we replace it. We don’t publish a warranty beyond that, because the elastic on a bead bracelet is a wearing part and we are not going to promise something we would argue about later.
Want your wrist measurement strung to size, or a photograph of the actual piece before it is packed? Ask on WhatsApp.
Who picks this one
Pick this one if your day is full of other people (a classroom, a ward, a counter, a phone queue) and you want something plain and heavy on your wrist at the end of it. It is the most sober-looking bracelet we sell: flat black, no shine, nothing that invites a question. It is also the stone we put in the New Home set for the doorway, if you would rather give it as part of something.
What it actually is
The black variety of tourmaline is called schorl, and it is iron-rich. Tourmaline is one of the few gem minerals that is both piezoelectric and pyroelectric: it develops an electric charge under pressure and again as its temperature changes. Dutch traders in the eighteenth century used warmed tourmaline to pull ash out of a pipe, which is where the old Dutch name for it came from. That property is measurable and has nothing to do with what anyone claims about wearing it. Mohs 7–7.5, and it takes a good polish.
Where it sits in the tradition
Not a classical uparatna. Modern practice associates black stones with Shani; the classical substitutes named for neelam are katela (amethyst), blue zircon, iolite and lapis. We are selling this as a stone, not as a prescription.
Which stone applies to you, if any does, comes from a chart rather than from a page. A reader can look, and this is what ratna and uparatna mean.
What we will not tell you
That it will fix your money, your marriage, your case or your health. Nobody can know that, and in India advertising a remedy as a treatment is prohibited under the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954. What we will tell you is exactly what the material is, what has been done to it, and what is in the box.
Looking after it
Hard and unfussy. Dry cloth, no perfume, store so the beads do not knock against harder stones.
Bought together with
Not a guess and not somebody else’s basket: these are the stones we actually pack alongside this one, and the set each pairing comes from.
- New Home ₹2,199 Packed with Clear Quartz, Green Aventurine, for Griha Pravesh.
About this stone.
Is schorl the same as black tourmaline?
Yes. Schorl is the mineral name for the iron-rich black variety.
Is it a substitute for neelam?
No, and we would not sell it as one. The stones named in the classical lists for neelam are amethyst, blue zircon, iolite and lapis lazuli.