Hong Kong International Jewellery Show from 13-17 sept 2017

Hong Kong International Jewellery Show from 13th-17th sept 2017


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About Jewelry

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Jewelry is small decorative items worn for personal  adornment , such as   brooches ,  rings ,  necklaces ,  earrings , and  bracelets . Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes, and the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example. For many centuries metal, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery, but other materials such as shells and other plant materials may be used. It is one of the oldest type of archaeological artefact – with 100,000-year-old beads made from  Nassarius  shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery. jewlery chen The first,The basic forms of jewellery vary between cultures but are often extremely long-lived; in European cultures the most common forms of jewellery listed above have persisted since ancient times, while other forms such as adornments for the nose or ankle, important in other cultures, are much less common. Histor...
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Jewelry of Materials and methods

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Jewelry of Materials and methods In creating jewellery , gemstones, coins, or other precious items are often used, and they are typically set into precious metals. Alloys of nearly every metal known have been encountered in jewellery. Bronze, for example, was common in Roman times. Modern fine jewellery usually includes gold, white gold, platinum, palladium, titanium, or silver. Most contemporary gold jewellery is made of an alloy of gold, the purity of which is stated in karats, indicated by a number followed by the letter K. American gold jewellery must be of at least 10K purity (41.7% pure gold), (though in the UK the number is 9K (37.5% pure gold) and is typically found up to 18K (75% pure gold). Higher purity levels are less common with alloys at 22 K (91.6% pure gold), and 24 K (99.9% pure gold) being considered too soft for jewellery use in America and Europe. These high purity alloys, however, are widely used ,across Asia, the Middle East and Africa.Platinum alloys range fr...
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