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A brief introduction to the history of jewelry
In the ancient world and certainly before 3000 years of gold in British Columbia was the preferred metal for the manufacture of jewelry. It had all the key requirements was rare, does not tarnish easily and best of all, a soft malleable metal was easy to work with him.
Of all the ancient civilizations perhaps it was the Egyptians who really put gold on the map, so to speak. Land of the Pharaohs to produce an impressive range bracelets, pendants, necklaces, rings and headdresses.
In what was perhaps the most famous of all excavations of ancient Egyptian society, the discovery Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922, all gold all objects of the Egyptians was plain to see.
The Greeks took gold and were really first to start adding other rare gems and stones to make jewelry more ornamental. In the third century BC, the Greeks, multicolored jewelry with emeralds, amethysts, garnets and pearls. Taking influences from across the Middle East and Asia Greek jewelry was undoubtedly prove useful.
The Romans were an ancient civilization that won gold in the place and after all sponsored by the use of gold coins. Of their currencies, the Romans used 18 and 24 carats. Again, like the Greeks, Romans, also used other gems such as sapphires from Sri Lanka and the diamond crystals in the Indians.
Gold and silver and made other forms still being designed and executed in a group it was really special until the 16th century when jewels began to be built in a normal grave. It was not until 1700 that a large amount of jewelry have begun to arise.
It was the French jeweler, Jacquin in Paris, who first patented a method of making fake pearls. He blown hollow glass balls with varnish mixed with iridescent scales of fish from the bottom! The hollow glass beads filled with wax to give them more substance and also to strengthen them.
This technique and procedure that faces the main producer of fake pearls for over 200 years.
The French then took the practice of making jewelry and fake pearls especially to the next level and started making glue. The past, it used was a mixture of glass containing white lead oxide and potash. The French had the manufacture of jewelry making false bottom is an art and the end of the century could make almost any type of fake gems including fake opals.
By the mid 18th century the production of the spread of fake jewels in London and Birmingham.
Throughout the history of some jewelry designs are closely associated at different times and personalities. For example, snake rings, became very popular in the mid-1800s after Queen Victoria received one as an engagement ring from Prince Albert.
Fashion Jewelry today was a long and tortuous journey to reach the position that maintenance and looking back is that history has an influence on the design.
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Stephen Morgan writes about a number of Internet based issues and more information on the above can be found at: Diamond Engagement Rings , Jewellery and Gift Ideas
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