Darryl Dean Begay ”Turquoise Lecture" 

His work is Amazing and he's a very talented Artist, keep it up man if you ever see this comment just know your inspiring the Youth that's interested in this art form!

That green turquoise really grabs my heart. While I love the blue there's some thing especially special about the green.

Thank you Daryl and the Navajo craftsman for what you do and for sharing with the rest of us who recognize the beauty and the spiritual connection of Turquoise and your work.

Thank you for zooming in on the turquoise cabs as he showed them.

Darryl is so awesome!

Beautiful Thankyou Darryl …I love turquoise it’s my favourite. 💙🦢💙

Fantastic video. Educating people about turquoise is very important to the industry. A lot fake material is on the market.

Thank you Darryl for all you do! Stellar!

Great! Thank you for sharing your incredible knowledge with us!

Darryl, your information and your specimens are extraordinary! Thank you! I too am a turquoise freak!

Beautiful gemstones and incredible designs. Bravo!

I learned so much about turquoise today. Very special stone!

This is amazing inspiration for all people of any age interested in beautiful turquoise. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and sacred gifts.

Thanks so very much for sharing this knowledge and wisdom with us ❤️ from Texas 🙏

I found this very insightful thank-you

Just found your channel and subscribed. Some great videos showing the process of some very talented artists. Looking forward to see what comes next. Darryl's tufa cast pieces and high quality stones are pretty special. Would love to see a video of him showing his technique. GD

Excellent questions, excellent answers. I am now subscribed! Thank you.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and details about every stone... I have learned alot just watching this short film. Very well educated and knows top quality in every stone. Need to post more videos just like this. Again thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge about every stone.

Long ago I don't like tourquise but now I love tourquise and have a tourquise collection like ring, bracelet and necklace

I do like the Royston your son found Darryl , I did not know about the variation in stone and technical application for your artwork , native American jewellery and artwork is some of the most beautiful in the world

Incredibly informative. Thank you Darryl Begay for your knowledge and sharing your insight and valuable knowledge! Really a great video. A:[ho!

Great information!

My husband bought a gorgeous necklace and earrings for me from Daryl Begay last year in Scottsdale. What an amazing and talented artist!! ❤️

I have watched too many videos regarding Turquoise but this video is also good for deep understanding.

I discover Darryl Dean Begay thanks to you. I am fascinated by Turquoise and up till recently thought, only a stone with no Matrice is of Interest.Thank you Yoko for making this video with a humble and very knowledgeable Artist.

Thank you for the information.

Thank you for sharing Darryl and his knowledge/experiences. WOW great video and interview.

Very gentle soft speaking man who take time to explain and ii like the zooming on the stones I love turquoise but to find a real one it s difficult Great video!

Very brilliant man! Thank you!

THANK GOD FOR STASHERS! History and product!

I have a cuff stamped M. Begay that I treasure...

Thanks for this great information. I have seen turquoise go way up in price my lifetime.

I love this style of jewelry. I lived in Pheniox for a while when I was younger and had some beautiful turquoise jewelry. It got stolen when I came back to S.C. we went swimming at a lake. My Mom's friends were the only people there with us that day. I knew they got it. I was so hurt.😢

Thank you so much Sir. I appreciate your lesson. I am just beginning on the trade.

Love and respect

Great information and interview. I have always loved turquoise and other stones that are the color of green and blue and red. My late aunt was an avid collector of old Dineh, Hopi, Santo Domingo, and Zuni jewelry. She left me some beautiful pieces when she passed and it is because of her that I developed a love for jewelry that is not just a beautiful work of art but part of a culture that is ancient. This applies not only to North America but also to other parts of the world. Anything creative that requires a deep connection to the earth and your own heritage is something that I admire. I am myself I am a great lover of beautiful stones and I work with stones with my hands doing flint napping and Stone knapping , Grinding, and polishing the ancient way. There is a beautiful green crystalline stone we have in the Carolinas and I can’t get anyone to identify at 100%. It is a good bit like turquoise except the crystalline structure varies depending on what quality of stone you get. It only occurs in an area called the slate band and it is usually in the same place that you will find quartz and occasionally you will find gold. During the 1800s a lot of people ripped the earth apart looking for gold wherever they would find a seam of quartz but I’m not that kind of person. Eventually the earth just kind of washes away and some of the stones make their appearance. They vary in color from pale green to a dark lime green with crystal in them. Still looking for a geologist to positively identify them. So far all they can tell me is that they are metamorphic igneous. I do know that some of the ancient people would use the higher quality stones to make tools from time to time and they can hold an extremely sharp edge because of the crystal content.

Went to the dollar store...in a plowed snowbank was a beautiful turquoise necklace....copper veins spidering all over the mainstone... looks to be natural! Awesome find!

Beautiful turquoise Precious treasures

Wow

Thank you..I learned something..useful

Beautiful 🤩

Thank you, for sharing.. very intersting as I love this magical stone

I wish I could own a piece of your jewelry. Thank you for this video. I've never seen the lime green before, my new favorite 💚

Thank you.

The very light colored piece of turquoise the gentleman showed might not have been considered "quality", but I thought it was beautiful.

Great interview, questions and answers.

This is great! I need this knowledge!!! Thanks!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Thank you for explaining all the different types.

nice it is beautiful.

thank you

Thanks for sharing the info😊

Wow what beautiful

Прекрасный рассказ! Очень люблю бирюзу, и мне всё интересно, что с ней связано. Успехов!

Wow I started getting vibrant and more blue turquoise and the buyers were just buying

I just bought some beautiful turquoise on key rings for stocking fillers for 🎄from the British Heart Foundation.

Some nice stones I like there color turquoise blue

Thank you Master! I would love to be your apprentice! I would pay for you to school me for a week. Thank you, Cory

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the Irani turquoise from Nishapur mines are the best

I knew dat ayyr

Darryl are you related to Joe Begay ? Years ago my mother was living in Tucson Arizona and I visited her and we went to a Navajo village and Joe Began made me a turquoise ring that my mother bought for me. I got to watch Joe Began make the ring.

This is awesome. How do I get my turquoise valued? It is all raw.

love your work.. I don’t have Facebook or Instagram Instagram how can I purchase something?

Excellent thank you for sharing your knowledge 🌞

Hi I came across this website and noticed your last name is Begay. I have a painting by Harrison Begay 🥰

Is there a name for turquoise infused quartz? I found some small samples from an ancient native site just outside the Joshua Tree National Park. We only picked from the tailings not much there but there were enough smalls to make it fun. Much was very dry and brittle but there were some much better pieces within the piles.

I have a Calvin Begay Bear Pendant and it's very beautiful. Wonder if they are related? It's a shame so many fake stones. Thanx for the information

Have any turquoise carving creation's ?

Jadi pengen punya batu ini

I want to learn about turqoise, I have a piece (braclet) from when I was a child. I love it and respect it and the artists that work with it. I would like to sell pieces in Nebraska. What is a good way to learn? I have a hard time finding information on the makers marks and the stamps from the silver smiths. So if pieces are getting more valuable it should be a good investment. Right? Can you name a way to learn what silversmiths and which ones to watch for? I go to a lot of estate and thrift stores. So are most of the purple pieces bisbee?

Are you connected in any way with Chaco Canyon jewelry?

what is sampler turquoise?

Pl.mention price

stash means take without permission?

Is there a way to contact you I love your show I have something that you might be interested in

How much the cost of one piece of turquoise

Can you speak about the fake dyed stones, like Howlite. Also, the Mojave Green Copper manmade turquoise. People passing off dyed, and manmade turquoise as natural. They are improving the fake turquoise. How do you know what is fake and what is real? Thank you 😊

Is that stablised or natural?

How to order a turquoise bracelet with dolphin 🐬 design for men 8-8.5 inch sterling silver 🥈 Thank you for your creative help

Begay

Puedo comprar un capuchón de turquesa

Its the most difficult stone to buy in the market. Scamsters have even raised the prices high to make a fortified and dyed stones to look like genuine turquoise. One should buy after researching the names of artists like him

Do you have a sister named Cheryldine Begay?

Please translate persian

Did a lot of explaining but the video because every time you pick up a stone, I didn’t know what Scam you’re picking up the only showed a picture every here and there when you were talking about a piece I don’t even know what stone you were talking about when you said this is one of the most expensive because you had it in your hand but😂

during these times people are going to be careful not to just give money away for jewelry people are going to have to hold back that big money and buy gasoline and grocerys it hard out there people have to cut back and eat and only drive where they need to go not too many unnecessary trips to the store people gonna have to cut back on what they spend just get little food money for meat potatoe bread necessary foods gas cut back

You say you know too many times just annoying 😂

Sounds like capitalism. Not what his forefathers had in mind.

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So Basically they can't tell the sacorized from high quality. So nothing can be GUARANTEED. So all in all do not buy turquoise stones with having a 100% guarantee that its legit