Topaz jewellery today can appear in many colours – including no colour at all – and it can make a great, and less expensive, substitute for diamonds.
In its most common form, it is almost colourless, but most people would hazard a guess that topaz is blue. Topaz can occur naturally in all sorts of hues, but more often than not, it’s treated to create the vibrant shades it’s associated with – and that’s okay. More variety for us.
Imperial topaz from the Ural mountains used to be for the sole use of Russian royalty, while a craze for foil-backed imperial topaz jewellery swept through Portugal when vast quantities of it were discovered in colonised Brazil. Topaz jewellery today can appear in any of the aforementioned colours – including no colour at all – and it can make a great, and less expensive, substitute for diamonds. Read on for