History of jewellery and modern trend

Use jewellery dates back to thousands of years. But how the jewellery use have changed in recent time and how it used to be in ancient time.

Jewellery is the word which is been derived from the Latin word Jocale. Jocale means paythings but jewellery in its ancient form is body ornamentes. In previous time all the jewellery used to be made from materials like wood, animals teeth, wood, carved stones and many other things. There used to be a specific piece made for each part of the body and it was a symbol of wealth , status and sometimes for the membership. In ancient Egypt, jewellery making is nearly 3000 to 5000 years old, they used to prefer gold to other materials and use of coloured glass. The history of jewellery dates back to thousands of years and the first sign was found to be 40000 years back in Middle east which was migrated to Europe.

In current time due to the growing influx of designer jewellery and art jewellery peopler not only like to wear jewellery but also tend to spend any amount on it. These designer jewellery are made from diamond and precious stones which has been set into the metal like gold, silver, white gold and platinium. The metals costs based on the purity mazored in Karat and it is stated by the number followed by K.

Generally gold jewellery in america are of 10 K which is only 41.7% gold but the higher purity is 22 K which is 91.6% gold and 24 K which is 99.9% gold. 22 K and 24 K are used mostly in Asia, Africa and middle east. The silver jewellery are made up of 92.5% fine silver. There are low priced jewellery also availble and which is quite famous made up with glass, semiprecious stones etc.

Talking about the precious stones, the diamonds are the most expensive and loved by the womens. There are some more precious stones as well like ruby, emerald etc. which are quite expensive. These precious stones are set in to gold, silver or platinum with techniqes to get different shapes and finishing. The jewellery cound be brushed finished to give it a soft look or hammered finished to
give it a wavy look.

Jewellery have been used to pose different significance in different culture. As in Rome, only people with certain ranks were allowed to wear rings. In between 19th and 20th century, mens wearing ring was considered effeminate. In recent time piercing and wearing ring has become a symbol of courage but some are aginst it. There is some importance given to jewellery from some religions as well like in Hinduism , married women has to wear a nachlace made from gold and black beads where as in Islam , men should wear gold.

The modern Jewellery trend started in late 40s at the end of World War 2. According to the recent studies of designer jewellery , America holds the largest market share nearly 30%, india , china , japan and middle east holds 8 to 9% and italy holds 5% . It is predicted that there will be dramatic changes in the startistics on maket share in coming years and india and china will be in the topmost positions.

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