Indian Jewels-excellent blend of tradition and aesthetics

  MEN AND WOMEN throughout ages,have thrived to decorate themselves in so many ways.As a result of this,jewelleries were created.India has been one of the countries topped in creation of jewelleries in topmost fashions.This country did countless experiments in developing various types of jewels. Gold jewelry and gold shpos are abundent in this country.This article tries to a glimpse of some jewels used by Indians even now.

Jewelry Necklaces

The above photograph shows a necklace.In the hollow of the necklace are seen two ornaments used to wear in the ears.At the bottom are finger rings.The design of all these matches one another. So they make a set. Riches prefer to order for jewels in such sets.in india gold ornaments are made using 22 k gold

Some more such sets are shown below.

Rings are of different types-ear rings, nose rings, toe rings,finger rings, etc.Nose rings give extra look tothe face. It has become further famous now because Sania Mirza, famous tennis star, wears it.Nose rings are also of various types.Gold smiths do the task of nose piercing to children

Ear rings

Ear rings are easy to maintain.They usually do not have any precious stones embedded.Formerly only unmarried girls used to wear them. But now even married ladies wear them as they are more convenient to maintain.Some types of ear rings have dropping chains of 2-3 cmslength.

Finger rings

These are most widely used rings. They are worn both by men and women.Except thumb and small finger, they are worn on all fingers.These rings are of thousands of different varieties- with and without precious stones embedded in them.

The different types of precious stones used in jewellery are-pearls, red corals, emerald, ruby, diamond,r4ed stones, blue stones, etc.Artificial pearls and American diamonds are also used by not so rich customers.In case of nose rings, diamond is most preferred stone

America-great customer for diamonds

In India, Surat, a prominent city in Gujarat state is famous for cutting diamonds technically and give them good shape. Interestingly, U.S.A. purchases most of the diamonds produced in India

India- How much gold?

It is interesting to note that India uses about 800 tonnes of gold every year.Large oart of it imported!Who says India is a poor country?  Large number of wholesale jewellery shops are found in every city in India

For the origin and evolution of the word jewel/jewels, you may please refer the following source: .www.websters-online-dictionary.org/je/jewels.html

Mr. K. Vasudevachar, leading jeweller at Shimoga-a city in karnataka, south India, is much experienced in producing various jewels showh here.His firm bears the name-'Harnahalli K.Manjappa &Sons'.The author is much indebted to him for providing some of the pictures shown here.