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The roots for garnets can be traced  back to 3100 B.C at Nile Delta in 3100 B.C., where Egytian artisans would craft it into beads or inlay into hand-wrought jewelry.

Garnet occurs naturally in a large range of colours including: red, orange, brown, green, yellow, and brown.Its name comes from Latin granatus meaning seed, because it often resembles small round seeds when found in its matrix rock.
Rather than a single gemstone, garnet is a family of related minerals, some of which occur as gemstones.
Each has a common crystal structure, and a similar chemical composition.

There are two main theoretical groups or "families" of garnet:- pyrope, almandite, spessartite, which are all (metal) aluminium silicates, and uvarovite, grossularite, andradite, which are all calcium (metal) silicates.

In practice, there are probably very few garnets with the precise pure chemical composition shown for their type, almost all garnets are of mixed types, where one type is partially replaced by another type.

Almandite

Pryope

Rhodolite

Spessartite

Tsavorite

SOURCES FOR THIS

GEMSTONE

U.S.A  (Arizona), South Africa, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Myanmar (Burma), Mozambique, Scotland, Switzerland, Tanzania

CARE

It is usually safe to clean Garnet jewelry in an Ultrasonic cleaner, but risky to use a steamer. We recommend ionic cleaners and/or warm, soapy water and a soft brush as the best way to clean your gemstone jewelry.