Handmade Jewelry
What Makes Handmade Jewelry Handmade?
Executive Summary By Catherine Gallegos
handmade jewelry
Men and women have adorned themselves with handmade jewelry since long before the age of reason.
Today, jewelry is primarily machine made, allowing manufacturers to produce uniform jewelry designs much more economically than traditional handcrafting and hand-casting techniques allow. Many specialty galleries — and even major department stores — now feature an increasing array of handmade jewelry.
Novica hosts the largest handmade jewelry market place on the Internet, featuring some 15,000 unique designs, direct from master artisans in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Bimadona specializes in assisting jewelers who still create limited-edition collections with traditional, handmade techniques.
In the following interview, Bimadona outlines the basic differences between handmade and mass-produced jewelry, and the benefits of and drawbacks to both handmade and machine-made techniques.
Five Reasons to Buy Handmade Jewelry
Executive Summary By Elaine Rojas
Handcrafted jewelry makes a lovely Christmas present for women and teen girls. Handcrafted jewelry is also often referred to as Artisan jewelry. Artisan jewelry is some of the most beautiful handmade jewelry in the world. It excels store-bought, mass-produced jewelry in a number of ways. While most handcrafted jewelry is more expensive than store-bought jewelry, it is also typically better constructed and from better materials. Cheap jewelry requires the use of cheap materials and fast, often careless, labor. Cheap jewelry does not become a family heirloom the way handcrafted jewelry does.
Artisan Jewelry from Peru :
1. Artisan Jewelry from Peru is made with natural materials by native people.
2. Each piece of jewelry has a special meaning to the craftsman that made it.
3. Each piece of jewelry is handmade, making it unique in character. This means that you are wearing a piece of art, something that is hard to put a price on.
4. All of the jewelry that is made is from genuine sterling silver. These pieces will
last a lifetime and can be passed from mother to daughter through generations.
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