Beads, although these are one of the most commonly used decorative materials, but still, one can make unique and exclusive designs and patterns using them. Beads can be used for jewelry, home décor, clothes, and accessories like bags and shoes, etc. These are extremely easy to apply on anything and give the chance to user [...]
Jewelry made up of wooden beads is the next in thing for all the fashion lovers. There is a huge popularity of wooden chains and bracelets amongst people, especially, the teenagers. Accessories made of the wooden beads besides giving an earthy touch to the whole appearance also add more grace. These highly trendy beads can [...]
Gold-filled spacer beads are an invaluable tool for jewelry designers, especially those who specialize in making affordable pieces. Gold filled beads look exactly the same as gold beads, but at a greatly reduced cost. This makes jewelry more affordable both for the designer and for the client without compromising appearance. Designers can buy gold filled [...]
Sterling silver jewelry pieces are so beautiful that they often sell themselves, but marketing still has its place in jewelry design. For example, everyone is used to seeing lots of marketing and advertising of jewelry during the holiday season and around Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day. In the current economy, it pays to combine creativity [...]
Due to the variety of gold-filled findings available, it can be difficult for even experienced jewelry designers to select the perfect finding (“findings” is a very general term that refers to head pins, eye pins, fastenings, brooch and earring bases, etc.). However, choosing the right finding is important, because it is literally the finishing touch to many [...]
What the Romans hailed as the “Evening emerald” might have been “Cleopatra’s emeralds” too. Scholars now believe that many of the Egyptian queen’s emeralds would have in fact been peridot. This green olivine, mined on the island of Zabargad was known for centuries as “chrysolite” before it came to be known as peridot. The lure [...]
Tiger Eye Quartz is a member of the quartz family available in shades of brown yellow, pink, blue and red with a silky luster. It has received its name due to the resemblance of its bands to the tiger’s eye. People of any zodiac sign, irrespective of sexes and religion can take advantage of the [...]
Moonstone – the milky white gem – is so named for its semblance to the color of the moon. It is considered to be the most valuable variety of feldspar with unique rainbow sheen on it. Hence, it is also known as Rainbow Moonstone. Moonstones have a silvery or bluish iridescence, caused by the intergrowth [...]
If “Necessity is the mother of Invention”, innovation is definitely the child of invention. The need to beautify oneself with the help of precious and semi-precious stones and expensive metals had been an age-old tradition. Gold had always given all other metals the toughest competition in this field. However, as the gold price increases, it [...]
Story of silver ornament beads started four thousand years back. Humans always fascinated about this white metal once considered more valuable than any other precious metal available on the planet. Wonderful story of sterling silver beads origins At times in our world’s history, silver has been more valuable than gold. In Egypt in 2000-1400 B.C., [...]