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2.2" Dragon Blood Jasper Hand Carved Realistic Skull

2.2" Dragon Blood Jasper Hand Carved Realistic Skull

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What you are buying

  • Natural rough only
  • Never dyed or treated
  • Carved from one block
  • Cut by hand, not moulded
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A realistic skull in dragon blood jasper at 2.2 inches — small enough to close a hand around.

The green body is epidote and the red flecks are piemontite, two minerals grown together in the same rock. The name comes from that contrast rather than from any single mineral, and the proportion of red to green varies from block to block.

The skull is the hardest test of a carver's eye, because everyone already knows what it should look like. The passages that take the longest are the ones you notice least: the transition from temple to cheekbone, and the way the teeth meet.

Item ID 2100131
Material 100% natural dragon blood jasper
Size 2.2 × 1.5 × 1.7 in (56 × 37 × 43 mm)
Weight 154 g

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Ships worldwide. This piece is held at our workshop and ships internationally.

  • One of a kind

    Every carving is cut from its own block of rough. The photographs on this page show the exact piece you will receive — not a sample from the same batch.

  • Natural stone, untreated

    100% natural stone, never dyed or reconstituted. Veins, inclusions and small shifts in colour are how the material formed; they are marks of origin rather than faults.

  • Carved by hand

    Cut, shaped and polished by hand. Proportions differ a little from piece to piece because each one follows the block it came out of.

  • Checked and packed

    Hand-inspected before dispatch and shipped in shockproof packaging.

The Material

Dragon Blood Jasper — The Old Wound

Green stone flecked red, and named by people who preferred the dramatic explanation.

The green is epidote and the red is piemontite, two minerals grown together in the same Western Australian rock. The name comes from the contrast rather than from any single component — Aboriginal tradition in the region holds the stone to be the remains of dragons, the green their skin and the red their blood.

It is a jasper in the loose commercial sense rather than the strict mineralogical one, which is true of a great many stones sold under that word. The proportion of red to green varies considerably from block to block.

Courage That Has Cost Something
Old Strength

Courage That Has Cost Something

Dragon blood jasper is traditionally associated with strength that has been earned rather than possessed, and is often chosen by people coming out of a difficult period rather than entering one.

Keep it where you will see it on the days that were hard before.

Vitality
Ground and Blood

Vitality

Its red passages link it in tradition to the body and to physical stamina, in the way most red stones are read.

Hold it before physical effort rather than after.

Growth Over Damage
Green Skin

Growth Over Damage

The green and red together are read as regeneration — something growing back over something that happened.

Set it where you are rebuilding something.

Standing Ground
Guardian

Standing Ground

The dragon association carries the usual guardianship reading: holding a position rather than advancing from it.

Traditionally placed at the boundary of a space rather than its centre.

Why We Carve Skulls
The Form

Why We Carve Skulls

The skull is the oldest symbol of transformation: what remains, what endures, what is left when everything temporary has gone. Carved in stone it reads less as death and more as clarity.

Turn it to face you when you want to be honest; turn it outward when you want to be left alone.

Our belief

Cut, not created

We believe a carving should carry the memory of the stone it came from. Every piece is cut from natural material, one at a time, and none of them repeat.