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The Art of Jewelry

As art jewelry comes into its own in America, galleries are clasping onto the trend and finding success with the art/jewelry mix.

Throughout the world, body ornamentation is an ancient and time-honored art form. Yet in the United States, jewelry as art has only recently come into its own.

Such art is not the series of gold tennis bracelets lined up in a glass case at the mall. Nor is it the design of a single artist whose staff puts it into mass production. These are handcrafted, one-of-a-kind works conceived and executed by the artist with all the technical elements and aesthetics that carry it across the line into the realm of fine art.(Continue Reading)

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New licensed lines add sparkle to jewelry/watches - The DSN Productivity Report
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Silver: over the past couple of years the market for traditional areas, such as English Georgian silver, has been quiet, but high prices are being paid
Over the past few years the antique silver market seems to have polarised into two extremes. Pieces that are of real artistic or historic significance, ...(Continue Reading)

Satori, Inc. Launches New Sterling Silver Jewelry Line
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Concentrations of surface-dust metals in Native American jewelry-making homes in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico
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