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Personalized Jewelry a Short History
The history of jewelry is tidily connected to the history of mankind. Some may argue that it is not proper to use the term personalized jewelry for those ages because the term itself appeared in the 60s of the last century. But quite a few experts agree that the jewelry of Antiquity had its unique purpose and distinct owner. Also the common practice from those ages was to bury the jewelry with its owner. And now we are able to tell about the person’s life by the jewelry he owned.
Historians largely agree that the first signs of any kind of decoration were perforated snail shells dating some 75000 years ago. Copper was the first metal used to craft jewelry from and was introduced around 5000 B.C.
Mediterranean cultures began working gold for making jewelry around 3000 B.C. Egyptians valued gold for its luxury and ease of crafting which lead to making fine gold jewelry as symbol of wealth and power. Mesopotamian jewelry was manufactured from thin metal leaf with the usage of lot of precious an semi precious stones. Some centuries later the Greeks mastered the making of colored jewelry. Amethysts, pearl and emeralds were their favorite gemstones.
In China, both men and women wore jewelry to demonstrate their nobility and wealth. They used more often silver than gold and jade was their favorite stone.
The Romans had a lot of resources across the Europe and their African territories. They diversified the materials used in their jewelry. Women wore different necklaces, bracelets, tiaras, clasps and earrings. Men wore only rings but sometimes on every finger. They used to wear rings with embedded carved stone that was used to seal letters and other documents. This stone had their family sign or initials and we could say this was the first appearance of personalized jewelry in the sense we put to this phrase today.
After the fall of the Roman Empire the Franks and Celts continued to use solid gold in its jewelry like the Romans. Byzantium was more influenced by the eastern and Greek techniques and used light weight gold.
The age of exploration gave the jewelry makers a large variety of stones to use and made available some examples of of jewelry from other cultures. These were the reasons for the flourishing making of jewelry in the 17th century across Europe but mostly in France and Italy. Some gems like emerald, topaz, amazonitel, iolite, spinel, chrysoberyl, lapis lazuli, ruby, turquoise, amethyst, peridot, opal and garnet were among those used by jewelers at that time.
The second half of 18th century was a milestone in the history of jewelry making. A new technology of developing cheaper metals and artificial stones made possible the birth of jewelry for the masses.
Of course the wealthier had fine jewelry custom made for them by some goldsmith artists. Tiffany, Cartier, Bulgari and Faberge were the most famous and their trademarks continue to be synonyms of exquisite value and quality.
The beginning of 20th century saw the developing of high quality jewelry in mass production. The forms and shapes were simpler than before.
Somewhere around the end of World War II the taste for fine artistic jewelry reappeared and jewelry become what we know it now. And in the late sixties and early seventies a new fashion emerged – wearing bracelets with the name of the person. This was named personalized jewelry and came in various shape and materials.
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