Jewelry

It is hard to find a per­son who shows ab­so­lute in­dif­fer­ence to the beauty of well-made jew­elry. Metal­lic glit­ter, light play on gem­stones’ fa­cets, in­tric­ate or­na­ments painstak­ingly de­tailed by the hand of a mastered en­graver… This sec­tion, ded­ic­ated to vari­ous pop­u­lar types of jew­elry, re­veals many in­ter­est­ing facts.

Rings

Since very an­cient times, people have dec­or­ated them­selves with fin­ger rings. As le­gend says, Pro­meth­eus was the first man to wear a ring – a link taken from the chains that bound him to a rock. However, the truth is that the first rings were made of bone and refer to the Pa­leo­lith­ic age. Read this art­icle to learn more about dif­fer­ent types of rings.

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Earrings

In an­cient times, ear­rings were primar­ily a male at­trib­ute, bear­ing cer­tain re­li­gious or so­cial mean­ings. However, in the Middle Ages, they be­came a com­mon fe­male dec­or­a­tion al­most world­wide. Gradu­ally evolving and chan­ging, the shape of ear­rings be­came enorm­ously di­ver­si­fied. This art­icle dis­cusses the dif­fer­ent types of ear­rings.

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Pendants

A pendant is a kind of jew­elry which ori­gin­ally had two pur­poses: dec­or­at­ive and prac­tic­al. For dec­or­at­ive pur­poses, a pendant was de­signed to be worn around one's neck; the prac­tic­al use of a pendant con­sisted of fasten­ing cloths and oth­er ac­cessor­ies. The very first pendants were found in ex­cav­ated Pa­leo­lith­ic set­tle­ments. From their early, simple ver­sions to today's soph­ist­ic­ated designs, pendants are one of the kinds of jew­elry that has re­mained pop­u­lar throughout the ages.

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Bracelets

Since the Pa­leo­lith­ic Age, men and wo­men have dec­or­ated their wrists with brace­lets either for re­li­gious, mys­tic­al, or dec­or­at­ive pur­pose. Nowadays, there are many vari­ations of male and fe­male brace­lets which dif­fer by ap­pear­ance, design, and ma­ter­i­als, and this art­icle des­cribes the most pop­u­lar ones.

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Accessories

The ori­gin­al mean­ing of the word “ac­cess­ory” is an op­tion­al, sec­ond­ary, or ad­di­tion­al ob­ject. However, choos­ing a cer­tain ac­cess­ory to match an out­fit of­ten takes longer than choos­ing the suit or dress it­self. Ac­cessor­ies are usu­ally ele­ments of cloth­ing or jew­elry, de­signed to dec­or­ate and com­plete an out­fit. They care­fully and un­ob­trus­ively sup­port the over­all style and en­hance the de­sired im­age.

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