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Wholesale Jewelry For All Tastes
Jul 14th, 2010 by

Not only that we offer wholesale fashion jewelry, but we have a great variety of it. We have wholesale sterling silver jewelry and wholesale gemstone jewelry as well, the most popular and stylish combinations nowadays. We know that most of the shops that sell gemstone necklaces and bracelets also like to sell jewelry made of sterling silver. It just fits together, and most women who like to wear silver also lie to wear gemstones. The combination of sterling silver with gemstone is also very popular among women of all ages. To make the picture even more complete, we sell beads and crystals as well.


We have hundreds of products, made of silver and gemstones. We have flexible prices, with products over $50, but also many under $10. This way we can make sure that all kinds of customers can afford to buy wholesale fashion jewelry from us. To make shopping easier for you, we have different categories, where you can browse to find exactly what you need. You can browse our wholesale jewelry by price, for we organized our products in groups of price ranges. If you are not interested in price, but you would like to buy wholesale jewelry lots in special designs, just browse through our wholesale jewelry products grouped by design. You will find here our items made for engagements or for men. Many buyers are looking for wholesale gemstone jewelry, and they are interested to buy only some kinds of gemstones. You won’t have to look through all of the hundreds of products we have to be able to find the desired gemstones. If you look through our alphabetical lists of gems, you will surely find the ones you would like to purchase in no time.

Wholesale sterling silver jewelry is truly beautiful. If you take a look at our website, you will notice that we did our best to make a collection of all kinds of jewelry, to satisfy all tastes and styles. We have wholesale sterling silver jewelry made for men as well, so if you want to make your shop special, we kindly advice you to purchase some of these as well when you make your order. Most of the jewelry shops neglect men and they don’t offer any stylish fashionable designs for them.

We offer wholesale jewelry lots that have been picked out by people with an artistic sense, forming a group of assorted colors and shapes, including pendants, rings, bracelets and so on. If you choose to make a purchase from our wholesale jewelry lots, you will save a lot of money, and also time: you don’t need to look around too much, because the selections are already made for you.

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The Costume Jewelry Manufacturing Process
Jul 14th, 2010 by

Brass


Brass is best described as a buttery yellow alloy of zinc and copper which has been manufactured for thousands of years all over the world. For jewelry, at least 67% copper and 33% zinc is used. Copper melts at 1083 Celsius and zinc boils at 907 Celsius and silver melts at 960 Celsius. Formulas with varying proportions of copper and zinc are alloyed together colors to achieve different variations of brass.

The color of the alloy will also vary, depending on the amount of zinc: brass gets lighter in color with additional zinc, and can reach a pale yellow stage. With this particular mixture, it helps the brass become stronger and more durable than copper alone, although not as strong as metals like steel. Thus, the perfect mixture for fashion jewelry. Although brass was often made by accident, early intentional brass was actually made with calamine, a mineral which contains zinc. By 200 BC, China was differentiating between brass and bronze, and in 300 AD, Germany and the Netherlands became well known in Europe for their brass.

In 1746, the properties of zinc came to be more generally understood, and England patented the technique for producing brass in 1781. Now brass is used to make several commodities offered in our markets, including Costume Jewelry!

Stainless Steel

Stainless steel used in fashion jewelry can be defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 10% chromium content by mass. Stainless steel does not stain, corrode or rust as easily as ordinary steel (it “stains less”). It is also called corrosion resistant steel when the alloy type and grade are not detailed, particularly in the aviation industry. There are different grades and surface finishes of stainless steel to suit the environment to which the material will be subjected in its lifetime.

Common uses of stainless steel are in watches, cutlery, and jewelry. Stainless steel differs from carbon steel by amount of chromium present. Carbon steel rusts when exposed to air and moisture. This iron oxide film is active and accelerates corrosion by forming more iron oxide. Stainless steels have sufficient amount of chromium present so that a passive film of chromium oxide forms which prevents further corrosion.

Thus it is extensively used in heavy gauge welded components such as jewelry. 316L stainless steel offers higher creep, stress to rupture and tensile strength at elevated temperatures. Therefore, ensures that all our stainless steel jewelry will never warp even if you run over it with a car!

.925 Sterling Silver

.925 sterling silver is an alloy of silver containing 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% other metals, usually copper. The sterling silver standard has a minimum millesimal fineness of 925 when used for jewelry. Fine silver (99.9% pure) is generally too soft and malleable for jewelry; therefore, the silver is usually alloyed with copper to give it strength, while at the same time preserving the ductility and beauty of the precious metal.

Other metals can replace the copper, usually with the intent to improve various properties of the basic sterling alloy such as reducing casting porosity, eliminating fire-scale, and increasing resistance to tarnish. These replacement metals include germanium, zinc and platinum, as well as a variety of other additives, including silicon and boron.

A number of alloys have appeared in recent years, formulated to lessen fire-scale or to inhibit tarnish, and this has sparked heavy competition among the various manufacturers, who are rushing to make claims of having the best formulation.

How To Determine Your Sterling Silver Jewelry Is Real
Jul 14th, 2010 by

Sterling silver is not so expensive nowadays, but there are still large amount of replica jewelry existing in market, one example is tiffany replica. So it is necessary for the customer to know some easy techniques to determine your sterling silver jewelry is real.
In 1851 Tiffany and Co launched the first tiffany jewelry which contained 92.5% silver. Since then the sterling silver had become popular. Sterling silver can also be called 925 silver, which consist of 92.5% silver and 7.5% other alloy. The added alloy is used to improve the luster, brightness and hardness of the silver.
After polishing, the sterling jewelry can show a very pretty metallic luster. It can also be set with precious stones to become a high-end jewelry. To maximize profits, some jewelry maker may mix cadmium, iron, copper or other cheaper metals in silver. For example, the fake cheap tiffany jewelry is produced at a very low cost, while sold with the price of real tiffany jewelry. Although this phenomenon is not widespread, but consumers should still have some way to identify silver jewelry. When a customer buys sterling silver jewelry, he can use the following 5 ways to determine the sterling silver jewelry is real.


1. Checking the color:
The higher purity of silver, the whiter color the jewelry has. Real silver jewelry usually shows a uniformly brightness. While it will show blue gray if mixed with lead or show brisk red if mixed with copper.

2. Checking the weight:
The density of the silver is slightly larger than other common metals like copper and lead. So checking the weight of the sterling silver jewelry can be the initial step. If a jewelry has a large size but relative light weight, it is probably made of other metals.

3. Checking the hardness:
The hardness of silver is lower than copper, but higher than lead and tin. Using a pin to scrape an inconspicuous place in jewelry, if it is very difficulty to leave a mark on the surface, the jewelry is probably made of copper. If a mark can be made by scraping and the mark is also very obvious, the jewelry is probably made of lead or tin. If the mark is not so obvious, then the jewelry is probably made of silver.

4. Checking the metallic sound:
The real sterling silver metallic sound is usually light, soft and clear. While other metals are usually sharp, boring.

The above four methods are effective in most cases. But the best way is to do chemical test directly. This test can be performed by some official authorities. When customer buys tiffany silver jewelry, he or she should also check whether the tiffany jewelry has some relevant certifications or not.

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Diamond Nose Rings
Jul 12th, 2010 by

Diamond Nose Rings…Classic Style and Beauty


If you’ve embraced the fashionable art of nose piercing, you’re among the increasing numbers of men and women who are expressing themselves in this distinctive way. Only earlobe piercings are more popular.

This ancient custom was rediscovered in the Eighties and Nineties and has spread like wildfire throughout Western culture. And nothing touches brilliance to your face like a diamond!

As Indian piercing practices endured through the centuries and became popular with Western teens, they were also appreciated and picked up by adults. Men and women of all lifestyles are choosing the endurance of 22k gold diamond nose rings to highlight their features. Nothing outlasts pure, lustrous gold. And nothing says power and elegance like 22k gold set with a diamond.

The internet is the place for reviewing all types of beautiful nose jewelry. It doesn’t matter whether you’re looking for something unobtrusive, perky, dramatic, traditional, or dynamic, you’ll find the most progressive designs on the pages of the net.

What Style Suits You?

Take a minute to think about your own sense of self. Your style and individuality come into play. Are you an extrovert or an introvert? Do people see you as poised or coy? What is it about nose piercing that attracts you?

As you answer these questions, you’ll find the pieces that attract you most. Look for craftsmen who have wrought from the finest metals and gemstones a whole gamut of styles, from discreet, plain nose studs to elegant 22k gold diamond nose rings.

Look for 22k gold diamond nose rings that will accentuate your features in any venue. Whether you’re wearing your jewelry for social occasions, to work, or to school, nothing will bring the shine to your face in just the same way as ravishing diamonds mounted in exquisite settings.

You want nose jewelry that you can wear in your nostril, through the septum, or atop the bridge of your nose. The choice is yours. But no matter which style you prefer, we believe that your selection deserves the best possible quality.

You can choose from nose rings, studs, barbells, screws, pins, and other types-all of them available in 22k gold. On jewelry that features decoration on the ends, note that some designs feature synthetic beads or balls, precious stones, sparkling crystals, or even magnificent diamonds.

Trust Yourself to Professionals

We also want to provide you with the best advice on obtaining and maintaining a nose piercing. We urge you: Never let someone pierce your nose with a gun! A true piercing professional will always use a piercing needle. Avoid cheaper piercers who use a gun-there are too many horror stories of infection and scarring from poorly done piercings.

We recommend 22k gold diamond nose rings, because they are polished to a smooth sheen and entirely free of nickel, which is one of the greatest skin irritants among all piercing jewelry. Metals with a high nickel content-even 10k or 14k gold-result in skin irritations, rashes, itching, and general discomfort.

You will find that 22k gold rests comfortably in your piercing because it’s naturally hypoallergenic. The healing process takes several months under the best conditions, so it’s important to choose something that will not irritate your body’s natural immune reactions. Our jewelry allows the gem to rest low in its setting. Why is this important? Because it lays flat against your skin, enhancing your overall comfort.

We know you are going to fall in love with some exquisite jewelry, including both the 22k gold selections and the diamond selections.

As you choose your diamond nose jewelry, consider where you will wear it, the size of your nose, and whether you want to present yourself as demure or dramatic. And even with the smallest diamonds, you can be confident that our jewels sparkle with the highest possible brilliance.

Why Choose 22k Gold Diamond Nose Jewelry?

It’s true that the tradition of the nose ring speaks of much history and custom. The practice has never died out among Indians, and its reach into Western cultures bespeaks its beauty and elegance. What better way to accentuate your face, your position, or your personality than with a high quality selection of 22k gold diamond nose jewelry? Choose something now, and you will have it forever.

Amber Jewelry Beautiful Jewelry With This Unique Stone.
Jul 11th, 2010 by

Amber was once given to loved ones to bring healing, luck and longevity to the wearer, roman gladiators adorned their weapons and shields with amber and believed that it would protect them in battle, and legend says that amber was golden tears of the gods which fell into the sea and solidified. Today jewelry designers use amber to make exquisite and unique pieces from this interesting stone.


Amber occurs in a variety of different colors, not only the usual yellow-orange-brown that you associate with the colour amber itself, it can range from a whitish color, pale yellow or gold to a dark brown and almost black. The more uncommon colors include blue amber, green amber and red amber (known as cherry amber) they are rare and highly sort after. When amber is used in jewelry it is usually transparent yellow, reddish-brown or a amber colour.

Although amber is considered to be a gem, it is not a crystalline mineral, amber is a wholly organic material derived from the fossilized resin of extinct species of pine trees. The sticky resin that oozed out of the pine trees often caught small insects such as spiders, ants, bees and small moths, other plant material and other small objects became entrapped in the path of the flowing resin, and they became fossilized over a long period of time, between 10 and 100 million years ago. The trees and their resins became covered with sediment and over millions of years the resin hardens into amber as we know it as today.

For thousands of years amber has been made into all types of jewelry, but today it has become valued primarily for the astounding array of fossils trapped inside. (DNA) can be extracted from the trapped fossilized organisms and compared with that of its modern day counterparts. ” Remember Jurassic park the move”.

Although deposits of amber occur throughout the world, the Dominican republic, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Burma and Borneo. The most valuable amber comes from the Baltic region.

Amber has had a amazing history, in 1712 the use of amber culminated with the completion of a entire banquet room made of amber panels for King Frederick I of Prussia, who passed it on to his son on his death bed in 1716. then this was presented to the Czar Peter the great to commemorate Prussia’s alliance with Russia. The wall panels were then sent to St Petersburg where they were packed up and not seen for 24 years. It wasn’t till Catherine the great that the amber panels appeared again in what was known as the amber room, It was then the largest work of jeweled art ever made. It was finally set up in the palace at Tsarskoye Selo in 1770.

It covered 55 square meters and contained over six tone of amber as well many other precious gem stones incorporated within the work of art, diamonds, ruby’s, emeralds, onyx, jade to name a few, as well as pure gold leaf, it was then known as the eighth wonder of the world.

The amber room was removed by the occupying German army in world war two. The Nazis stripped the wall panels, packed them into crates and shipped them back to Germany, And like other works of art and treasure looted by Hitler in world war two, they disappeared and were never seen again.

Amber value is based primarily on it’s processing into jewelry therefore amber is graded according to its size and beauty, as well as the presence and type of inclusions. It measures 2 to 3 on moh’s scale of hardness, which means it is quite a soft stone. Amber should not be placed in a ultra sonic jewelry cleaner as it may damage the stone and it should be stored in a pouch on its own to avoid chipping on other harder pieces of jewelry.

As a jewelry designer, I personally love working with amber, with its rich history and the fact that every piece of jewelry is unique and no two pieces are exactly the same. So the next time you come across this unique stone have a good look, you might fall in love with it too.

How Jewelry Came To Be
Jul 11th, 2010 by

The word “jewelry” is derived in the Latin word jocale, meaning “plaything”and is used to describe any piece of precious material used to adorn one’s self. Students with the natural sciences are in agreement when they say that of all the creatures within the animal kingdom, only human beings seek to adorn themselves.


Prior to written language, or the spoken word, there was jewelry! According to archaelogists, even primitive man wore jewelry inside form of twine, stones and animal teeth and “the very first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration”. Early in its inception, jewelry was associated with religious rites. Gold and jewels have been applied as gifts for that maintenance of worship and as protection against occult forces. In accordance with this began the presumption that precious stones possessed magical powers and could affect the fortunes with the wearer. Amethyst, for instance, was thought to sober drunks, quell sexual passion and cure baldness. Aquamarine was considered to protect seafarers, whilst emeralds increased fertility and intelligence. Rubies provided defense against every type of misfortune and created hostile neighbors friendly. Medieval Europeans dreaded the opal because of its resemblance to “the Evil Eye” and it truly is from their fear that Sir Walter Scott, in 1829, wrote “Anne of Geierstein”. In this novel, the heroine’s death is attributed towards the wearing of an opal, which is why, to this day, the superstition exists that it’s poor luck to wear an opal unless it really is your birthstone.

Soon jewelry advanced from a uncomplicated ornamental or amulet stance to a additional practical a single. Jewels became used as being a symbol of rank, wealth and social standing and had been utilised as love tokens. The ring is popular to a lot of cultures as the perfect symbol of adore. Its unbroken shape represents eternity and has symbolized a lover’s pledge since the days of early Rome. The 15th century is when the diamond ring tradition started for the primary time. It happened in 1477 when Archuke Maximilian of Austria presented a gold ring set with a diamond as being a token of his eternal enjoy for his future wife, Mary of Burgundy. Though historians commonly take this year as the starting point with the diamond engagement ring tradition, other things should be accounted too. Ancient Greeks considered that the fire in a diamond will keep the flame of really like alive for eternity plus the Egyptians physcians believed that the vein of adore ran on the fourth finger on the left hand directly towards heart.

Much more than just a curio from your past, jewelry, like art, is really a window into the soul of humanity, and a poignant reminder of that which separates humankind through the animal kingdom-a desire to capture the essence of beauty, to possess its secrets, and to unlock its mysteries.

How Jewelry Came To Be
Jul 10th, 2010 by

The word “jewelry” is derived through the Latin word jocale, meaning “plaything”and is used to describe any piece of valuable material accustomed to adorn one’s self. Students from the natural sciences are in agreement when they say that of all the creatures from the animal kingdom, only human beings seek to adorn themselves.


Just before written language, or the spoken word, there was jewelry! According to archaelogists, even primitive man wore jewelry inside the form of twine, stones and animal teeth and “the very first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration”. Early in its inception, jewelry was connected with religious rites. Gold and jewels had been applied as gifts for your maintenance of worship and as protection against occult forces. In accordance with this began the presumption that valuable stones possessed magical powers and could affect the fortunes from the wearer. Amethyst, as an example, was thought to sober drunks, quell sexual passion and cure baldness. Aquamarine was believed to protect seafarers, while emeralds increased fertility and intelligence. Rubies provided defense against each type of misfortune and made hostile neighbors friendly. Medieval Europeans dreaded the opal simply because of its resemblance to “the Evil Eye” and it truly is from their fear that Sir Walter Scott, in 1829, wrote “Anne of Geierstein”. In this novel, the heroine’s death is attributed for the wearing of an opal, which is why, to this day, the superstition exists that it is bad luck to wear an opal unless it is your birthstone.

Soon jewelry advanced from a simple ornamental or amulet stance to a a lot more practical a single. Jewels became utilized as a symbol of rank, wealth and social standing and had been utilised as adore tokens. The ring is typical to quite a few cultures as the best symbol of really enjoy. Its unbroken shape represents eternity and has symbolized a lover’s pledge since the days of early Rome. The 15th century is when the diamond ring tradition started for the first time. It happened in 1477 when Archuke Maximilian of Austria presented a gold ring set with a diamond like a token of his eternal love for his future wife, Mary of Burgundy. Though historians typically take this year as the starting point on the diamond engagement ring tradition, other points ought to be accounted too. Ancient Greeks believed that the fire in a diamond will keep the flame of love alive for eternity plus the Egyptians physcians considered that the vein of enjoy ran on the fourth finger of the left hand directly towards heart.

Much more than just a curio from your past, jewelry, like art, is often a window into the soul of humanity, and a poignant reminder of that which separates humankind on the animal kingdom-a desire to capture the essence of beauty, to possess its secrets, and to unlock its mysteries.

Omega Seamaster James Bond Midsize Mens Watch 2225.80
Jul 9th, 2010 by

Stainless steel case and bracelet. Blue wave dial. Date displays at 3 o’clock position. Chronograph. Blue aluminum unidirectional rotating bezel. Luminous hands and hour markers. Domed anti-reflective scratch resistant sapphire crystal. Double locking deployment clasp. Case diameter 41mm. Automatic movement. Water resistant at 300 meters (1000 feet).

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