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Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example.
Jewellery design is the art or profession of designing and creating jewellery. It is one of civilization's earliest forms of decoration , dating back at least 7,000 years to the oldest-known human societies in Indus Valley Civilization , Mesopotamia , and Egypt .
4 Body. 5 Feet. 6 Special functions. 7 Components. ... This list of jewellery types is a listing of most types of jewellery made. Hair Ornaments. Crowns; Headband ...
Art jewelry is one of the names given to jewelry created by studio craftspeople in recent decades. As the name suggests, art jewelry emphasizes creative expression and design, and is characterized by the use of a variety of materials, often commonplace or of low economic value. In this sense, it forms a counterbalance to the use of "precious ...
The shells are first marked with a series of ovals in a process called signing, then cut into oval blanks for the cameo carver. The actual cameo is mainly cut with a metal scraping tool called a bulino, an invention of Jewish artisan Antonio Cimeniello. A number of metal gravers are used: flat-faced, round and three-cornered.
A channel setting is a method whereby stones are suspended between two bars or strips of metal, called channels. Typically, a line of small stones set between two bars is called a channel setting, and a design where the bars cross the stones is called a bar set. The channel is a variation of a "U" shape, with two sides and a bottom.
Gold body chain for a slight woman or a girl. Frontal view with an amethyst and four garnets; four other gems are missing (4th or 5th century Romano British, part of the Hoxne hoard) [1] Byzantine body chain found as part of the Asyut Treasure, Egypt c. 600 AD (British Museum) [2] Gold chain from the sixteenth century, Sweden.
Most ancient jewellery is of bone, ivory, antler or some soft stone (such as limestone or lignite). The diversity and manufacture of these pieces, then, indicates a significant development in human evolution, especially as it comes in such various forms (hairbands, placed in clothing, bracelets, anklets, and so forth).