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Black tourmaline bracelet for everyday protection
Black Tourmaline
A highly revered traditional stone for grounding and environmental protection.
Physical Characteristics
Associations
Healing Properties
- Protection
- Grounding energy
- Space clearing
- Boundary setting
- Emotional stability
- Energy purification
Colour
About this Black Tourmaline bracelet
Across multiple shamanic traditions, black tourmaline is the stone people reach for when they want something between themselves and a difficult environment — traditionally associated with repelling stagnant energy and reinforcing personal boundaries. The opaque beads have a dense, reassuring feel against the wrist.
Healthcare workers on long rotations wear it. So do people moving through grief, parents through a hard school term, anyone bracing for cyclone season. Each piece is assembled by hand in our Pointe aux Sables workshop, with knot work meant to outlast the elastic itself. We restring any bracelet you've bought from us at member rates, for as long as the piece exists.
History
Historically known as schorl, black tourmaline was extensively mined in Saxony, Germany, as early as the fifteenth century. Ancient magicians and shamans traditionally relied upon black tourmaline as a talisman to protect against negative entities and earthbound spirits during ritual work. It gained significant popularity in Victorian England as a featured stone in mourning jewellery. The modern name originates from the Sinhalese word toramalli, which was historically applied to various mixed coloured stones found in Ceylon.