Jewellery Necklace

Jewellery Necklace Biogarphy

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Necklaces have an extraordinary history stemming back thousands of years and have evolved from simple charms and pendants constructed of bone, wood or rock to a fashionable necklace available in every precious gemstone discovered in a million different styles. Ancient burials discovered in late 2004 revealed bones, shells and stones which were worn around necks of people some 80,000 years ago, few fashions have survived the test of time as well as the necklaces. Amazingly necklaces with bone, rock and wood charms are still available and popular today!
A snapshot of the evolving styles and uses of jewelry is available due to the ritual of burying the dead with their most significant pieces of jewelry. Up until the industrial revolution the cost of jewelry prohibited middle and lower classes from acquiring necklaces constructed of precious or semi precious stones and metals. For this reason like most jewelry necklaces served a role of signifying social status and wealth.
Necklaces did not follow the trends of fashion until the 17th century. The earliest necklaces were constructed from simple stands and bone and varied in length from short right up to necklaces which would hang down to the lower stomach. Egyptian and Roman cultures created beaded necklaces from beautifully colored glass and clay. During the start of the last millennium cultures began wearing multiple necklaces. During art deco period woman would wear as many as 8 layered pearl necklaces. This trend is enjoying a strong resurgence as the classical styling of vintage and art deco jewelry is becoming popular once again.Following in the footsteps of all jewelry trends no longer are precious gemstone and precious metals necklaces a must when purchasing a piece considered fashionable. Modern jewelry trends emphasize the importance of artistic design and creativity over the expense of the material used to construct the necklace.Developing in the last years of the 19th century, the Arts and Crafts movement was based on a profound unease with the industrialised world. Its jewellers rejected the machine-led factory system - by now the source of most affordable pieces - and instead focused on hand-crafting individual jewels. This process, they believed, would improve the soul of the workman as well as the end design.
Arts and Crafts jewellers avoided large, faceted stones, relying instead on the natural beauty of cabochon gems. They replaced the repetition and regularity of mainstream settings with curving or figurative designs, often with a symbolic meaning
The Art Nouveau style caused a dramatic shift in jewellery design, reaching a peak around 1900 when it triumphed at the Paris International Exhibition.
Its followers created sinuous, organic pieces whose undercurrents of eroticism and death were a world away from the floral motifs of earlier generations. Art Nouveau jewellers like René Lalique also distanced themselves from conventional precious stones and put greater emphasis on the subtle effects of materials such as glass, horn and enamel.
However, the style's radical look was not for everyone or for every occasion. Superb diamond jewellery was made in the 'garland style', a highly creative re-interpretation of 18th- and early 19th-century designs.
The possibility of tracing jewelry’s historic itinerary derives primarily from the custom, beginning with the most remote civilizations, of burying the dead with their richest garments and ornaments. Plastic and pictorial iconography—painting, sculpture, mosaic—also offer abundant testimony to the jewelry worn in various eras.
It is probable that prehistoric humans thought of decorating the body before they thought of making use of anything that could suggest clothing. Before precious metals were discovered, people who lived along the seashore decorated themselves with a great variety of shells, fishbones, fish teeth, and coloured pebbles. People who

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