Where the informational world of the mundane and arcane meet
The institute’s own
The name the institute gives its stone.
This page is the record of it, in three parts: what the word means, what the stone does on a geological scale, and what it has done to the markets it moves through — with the photographs and the evidence kept beside them.
The account is being written in the institute’s own words. Every section below is held open and labelled until that text arrives, and nothing is filled in on the institute’s behalf in the meantime. The name carries the institute’s mark wherever it is written, here as everywhere on the site.
How the page is arranged
The name is the institute’s own, so the account of it belongs to the institute too. What follows is the structure of that account, laid out and named, waiting on the institute’s words.
A note on the mark. Both the name on this page and the institute’s own wordmark carry the copyright mark, and the mark sits tight against the name wherever it appears — in the heading, in the menu, and in the footer of every page.
Part I
Its definition — the word, and what the institute means by it.
Held open
This section is held open for the definition: the word itself, how it is said, where it comes from, and what the institute means by it. Nothing is written here on the institute’s behalf — send the wording and it goes in word for word.
Part II
Where it sits in the ground, and what it does there.
Held open
This section is held open for the geological account: where the stone is found, how it forms, and what it does over the long scale of the earth. Send the material and it goes in word for word.
Part III
What it does to the trade in stones, and to the people in it.
Held open
This section is held open for the market account: what the stone does to the trade in gem stones and crystals, and what that means for the people buying and selling them. Send the material and it goes in word for word.
Photographs & evidence
The gallery is kept for the institute’s own photographs of the stone and the evidence that goes with the account above. Six frames are set out below. Each one takes a picture and a caption, and the shape of the gallery is already in place, so the pictures can go in one at a time as they arrive.
Caption to come
A photograph of the stone, or a piece of the evidence that stands with it, with its own caption written beneath.
Caption to come
A photograph of the stone, or a piece of the evidence that stands with it, with its own caption written beneath.
Caption to come
A photograph of the stone, or a piece of the evidence that stands with it, with its own caption written beneath.
Caption to come
A photograph of the stone, or a piece of the evidence that stands with it, with its own caption written beneath.
Caption to come
A photograph of the stone, or a piece of the evidence that stands with it, with its own caption written beneath.
Caption to come
A photograph of the stone, or a piece of the evidence that stands with it, with its own caption written beneath.
Sending the material. Text the photographs over, or send a batch at full size, and they go into these frames with the captions written as the institute gives them. A frame is added, or taken away, whenever the account calls for it.
Nothing is hidden that you cannot find again.
The rest of the institute stays open — the classes, the apothecary, the stones and the shelves — and the book and the members’ room sit beside this page, behind the same threshold.