Minerals
Ten minerals. Ten forces. Each born from the earth, polished by time.
BAGNO does not choose its stones for beauty. It chooses them for their density — the density of meaning they have carried for millennia. Each mineral in our collection is a geological archive: formed in the silence of the earth, torn from volcano or sea, then cut to fit in the palm of a hand. To wear a stone is to carry a fragment of natural history against your skin.
Grounding · Protection
Volcanic glass born from fire and cooled by air. Obsidian forms when lava meets atmosphere — a thermal shock of a thousand degrees. Roman warriors made blades from it. We make it an anchor: the stone that remembers where you come from.
Light · Confidence
Quartz heated by the earth until it becomes light. Citrine owes its golden colour to iron traces trapped in crystal — a sun captured in rock. It is rare in nature. When found, it is always in basalt pockets, where the earth kept its warmth.
Courage · Strength
Fibrous quartz with shifting reflections. Tiger eye is chatoyancy — a play of light that moves when the stone moves. Romans wore it into battle. It is the stone of the one who looks without turning away.
Calm · Gentleness
Calcium aluminium silicate, translucent as melted glacier. Prehnite is the geologist's stone — the first mineral ever named after a person, Colonel Prehn, at the Cape in 1788. Soft to touch, almost cold. It calms whatever it meets.
Flow · Openness
Blue pectolite extracted from the mountains of the Dominican Republic — and nowhere else on Earth. Larimar exists in only one place in the world. Its colour evokes Caribbean waters, but it comes from volcanic rock. It is the sea trapped in the mountain.
Harmony · Balance
Copper aluminium phosphate, six thousand years of human use. Egyptians set it in gold. Persians believed it changed colour to warn of danger. It is the stone of balance — between the blue of sky and the green of earth.
Joy · Warmth
Feldspar with copper or hematite inclusions that catch light like molten metal fragments. Vikings used it to navigate in overcast weather — a mineral compass. To wear sunstone is to keep the light when the sky darkens.
Clarity · Vision
Deep blue metamorphic rock, veined with gold pyrite. Ground, lapis produced ultramarine — the most expensive pigment of the Renaissance, costlier than gold. Michelangelo and Vermeer painted their skies with it. It is the colour of vision: seeing beyond what is visible.
Love · Tenderness
Silicon dioxide tinted by titanium, manganese, or dumortierite. Rose quartz is massive — it never forms isolated crystals. It exists in blocks, like a geological heart. Greeks attributed it to Aphrodite. We attribute it to the one who dares tenderness.
Stability · Silence
Microcrystalline chalcedony formed layer after layer in volcanic cavities. Black agate is the most silent of stones — opaque, dense, without shine. Its beauty is in its weight. It is the stone of the one who has nothing to prove.
Workshop
Seven stones, seven intentions. Choose the minerals that will accompany you.