http://www.gemsinfo.net Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:20:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Up to this point in time all jewelry was the end product of a small handcraft industry. Now, in the eighteenth century, factory-made ornaments began to appear. As with so many other everyday objects, quality suffered and the jewelry making art went into decline. The changes were not all negative. ... http://www.gemsinfo.net/jewelry-in-18th-century/ There is considerable labor and time involved in progressing from design to finished jewelry piece. Casting, where feasible, is a method for reproducing a piece exactly, rapidly, and inexpensively. A mold is made of the model diamond jewelry piece, using a special fine sand mixed with water and glycerine. The ... http://www.gemsinfo.net/finished-jewelry-piece/ The Egyptians and Indians had some appreciation of color in their cheap diamond jewelry. They added manufactured and natural stone and enameling to it, but by and large the best jewelry of most of the ancient world was wrought only in gold. However, by the time of Alexander the Great—about ... http://www.gemsinfo.net/indians-jewelry/ By the time of the Romans, whose jewelry styles were based on neighboring Greek and Etruscan forms, the various pieces were primarily prized for the massive load of gems they carried. The art of the setting was considered relatively unimportant. When Byzantine jewelry finally evolved, its style was based on ... http://www.gemsinfo.net/romans-jewelery/ The ancestry of the jewelry we know can be traced in large part back to its origins in Mesopotamia. The great early civilizations developed along major river valleys. The Su-merian civilization was born in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Egypt rose along the Nile. India ascended from the ... http://www.gemsinfo.net/jewelry-in-the-past/ Sumerians had such great enthusiasm for jewelry and such high artistic taste and skill with it that their influence on the jewelry of other cultures was strong. They handed their art down to the Assyrians and Babylonians. These in turn brought it to the Persians. The Scythians to the north ... http://www.gemsinfo.net/sumerians-jewelry/ The art and craft of working metals to make jewelry has been practiced by every culture of man, at one time or another, for tens of centuries. Gold has the most ancient history of them all. Some of the gold jewelry created by craftsmen in ancient India, Egypt, and Assyria ... http://www.gemsinfo.net/jewelry-history/ Through any combination of the techniques discussed here, by filing, buffing, drilling, etching, or in any other way of shaping the metal to his design, the craftsman finally produces a work of art. As with other artistic endeavors, each culture and each century has left its legacy of jewelry which ... http://www.gemsinfo.net/combination-of-jewelry-techniques/ Silver is a very pop http://www.gemsinfo.net/silver-in-jewelry/ Under United States' law the price of gold is set at $35 per "fine" or 24-karat ounce. This price is carefully controlled and is applicable to gold used for monetary transactions between countries. A free market in gold also exists in which the price wedding band sets fluctuates somewhat. Except ... http://www.gemsinfo.net/price-of-gold/