Jewellery

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In Pakistan there is no greater event in a family than a wedding. This is a brand new category portraiying pakistani brides. Its All about Pakistani Bridal look, Makeup, Suiting and Jewellery.

All girls wanted to look the most beautiful and attractive in her wedding day. And why not? she should be.. after all, its the day of the bride. Lots of people come to attend the ceremony they all collect for the bride and groom. Groom also receives the special treatment on the wedding day but the brides receives more care than the groom, like the dress, makeup and specially the jewellery of the bride holds the great attention of the guests.

Bridal Jewellery should be the matching of the dress. As well as while choosing the Bridal Jewellery you should be very careful about the color combination of dress. Also it is very important that consider the looks of the bride, like whether she has long face, round face or oval because sometimes the jewellery which looks very nice, not necessary, it will suit your face as well. so it is good to wear the kind of jewellery which suits to your face.

Some people thinks that if the Bridal Jewellery is very heavy it will look more nice but this is not a right concept sometimes it is good if you wear heavy jewellery but not always. Like if the bride face is very small and she wears a very heavy jewellery it mights look odd and the wedding day is very important for every girl so she shouldn't take any risk. and should choice the suitable jewellery which gives her the most charming looks and makes her day memorable.

You will find latest jewellery and suiting designs. We are displaying a complete collection of latest Jewellery, makeup & bridal dresses.

Pakistani Wedding Jewellery

Traditional kundan heavy set consists of a necklace, pair of earrings, teeka and maatha patti (head piece, model wearing on shoulders). Stones setting work on silver. 925 Sterling Silver 24kt Gold Plated Crystal Swarovski crystals Semi precious stones Fully handmade

Zircons set consists of a necklace, pair of earrings, teeka and ring. Zircons setting in silver. Semi. Swarovski crystals tassels. Dual layered. 925 Sterling Silver 24kt Gold Plated White cubic zircons Semi precious stones Swarovski crystals Fully handmade

Look at this jewellry it is very nice and pretty,I think This is jewellry attracts the ladies because it is the bridal jewellry as well as it has new look and desigsns then the other jewelleries,The necklace is very beautful and nice designed i like it really much,I hope you people also enjoy.Dont forget to give me the comments i am waiting for it,For latest and modern jewellery of pakistani bridal dresses please visit the website below;

Indian Bridal Jewellery

We take pride in informing you that our principals have made all the jewellery for the film 'Devdas'. After the release of the film the jewellery worn by Madhuri Dixit and Aishwarya Rai have become so popular that every one wants 'Devdas Jewellery'. Our design and workmanship is the best in India. It is our previledge to offer you the latest in jewellery which you won’t find any where.All the jewellery is made of Silver with 22 - 24 carat gold plating.
We make International as well as Indian Ethnic jewellery. The different styles of Ethnic jewellery are: Mughal, Ras Rava(Saurashtra),Pachikam(Ahmedabad), Aari work (Punjab) Kundan, Meenakari (Rajasthan) etc. and they are studded with Pearls, Rubies, Emeralds, Garnets, Turquie, Coral, Onyx, Cubic Zirconia (American Diamonds.) We make complete Bridal range of Jewellery in different finishes: 24 carat Gold Plating, Matt Gold, Rohadium, Oxidised, Matt Silver, Copper and many more.

Delicate gold jewellry displayed in E China

Models show gold decoration on a jewellery exhibition held by a gold shop in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Dec. 30, 2009. (Xinhua/Zhao Xiaoming)

Wedding Jewellery In South India

Wedding jewellery in South India occupies an important place in the repertoire of ornaments in the south. The collection of marriage jewellery in South India is probably the most outstanding art in Indian society. The bridal necklace, or thalt, with its pendants composed of auspicious emblems is known worldwide for its elegant look. Another impressive marriage necklace illustrates the way in which South Indian jewellery, whilst retaining its own unmistakable character, could not entirely escape the effects of fashion elsewhere.

The repose details on the pendants of the wedding jewellery in South India, worked in very high relief, are the source of the swami work so popular with the European market in the late nineteenth century. This is superimposed on to a support of abstract shape, whose origins can only be guessed at. Yet above and below the deities are applied panels pierced with scrolling designs that are utterly foreign to southern India and must have come via European jewellery. Even the royal jewellery was subject to alien cultural and formal influences that were also worn during marriages. A series of 18th century wall paintings in a temple in Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, depicts both historical episodes in the history of the local rulers, and scenes from the life of the king, where one can see the unique marriage jewellery of the then South India.

The paintings show an interesting array of contemporary Thanjavur jewellery and artifacts, but there is also a surprising Moghul influence. In a few scenes, including a coronation scene, the king is dressed in Moghul attire and turban, replete with turban jewels. The kingdom was also subject to European influence. One of the panels shows Europeans seated in armchairs before the king; another shows two European soldiers offering presents to him. By the time the Ramnad kingdom came under the administration of the British about seventy years later, European influence was beginning to show itself in the marriage jewellery in South India.

The marriage necklaces of South India carry an outstanding aura of regal show. These necklaces has gold beads and pendant on black thread, the gold worked in repousse or stamped, with applied wire decoration and cut work panels, inscribed on the back and found in Tamil Nadu, in the late 19th century. The imposing pendant of this necklace is adorned with the images of the god Shiva and his consort Parvati seated on Nandi, the sacred bull, before a temple, all worked in repousse, which is pierced in places to reveal the gleam of a red foil backing. Above this, contrasting strongly both in its flatness and in the delicate curving of its cut tracery, is an applied panel depicting a deer dancing on its hind legs between birds of paradise taking flight. A second panel, beneath the repousse panel, has similar birds arranged on a formal scrolling ground with a central palmette.

The marriage necklaces of South India are usually stamped and chased along with lac-filled pendants on black thread. The cylindrical pendants, probably deriving ultimately from Iranian forms, were intended to contain small pieces of paper inscribed with Sanskrit mantras. The pendants are auspicious emblems, fruits and vegetables signifying abundance, or miniature representations of temple pinnacles. This was acquired by Caspar Purdon Clarke on his purchasing tour of India of 1881-82 and was said to be from Madura.

Another popular wedding jewellery in South India is a gold, pave-set with seed pearls and turquoises, the heads with ruby eyes and enamelled details. This necklace, with its chain of interlocking scales, is an adaptation of the serpent jewellery, which was especially popular in the early Victorian period. A European serpent necklace or bracelet would usually fasten by looping the articulated scaly body over the head. On this piece, however, the scales terminate in two quite incongruous wolf-heads snarling each other. The marriage jewellery in South India has a different space of admiration amongst the south Indian women. They adorn themselves with these jewelleries not only to look beautiful but also follow all the religious prejudices associated with them.

Beautiful Pretty Jewellery Models

Contact lens jewelry for your eyeballs: Ouch!

What you're ~~cringing~~ looking at is a piece of jewelry for your eyeball. Aptly titled "The Eye Jewellery Project," artist Eric Klarenbeek threaded some medical wire through some crystals and attached it to a contact lens. I don't know about you, but feeling a thread between my eyelids every time I blink would take some getting used to. Still, you're bound to turn some heads.

Klarenbeek was asked on a video he posted on the project what would happen if someone tugged (yeee-ouch!) on the line, the artist responded, "It just falls out... (or in worst case, [sic] the wire might break)." At least it won't take your eyeball out with it!

Still with me? Well, steel your stomach and click Continue for a video of Klarenbeek's eye jewelry in action, eerily set to Nine Inch Nail's Ghosts. Be sure to also take a gander at the gallery below for some close-ups.

Zest Jewellery - young bride and groom

Introduction Of Jewellery

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The roots of jewelry in India can be traced in the history of more than three millennia. Before the well-known civilazations had taken shape, jewelry making in India had become an integral part of the dressing habits of the people of India.

Jewelry made of natural materials

In early India, people fashioned jewelry out of natural materials found in abundance all over the country-seeds, feathers, leaves, berries, fruits, flowers, animal bones, claws and teeth. Even today such jewelry is used by the different tribal societies. Excavations at Mohenjodaro and other sites of the Indus Valley civilization have unearthed a wealth of ornaments. It appears that both men and women of that time wore jewelry made of gold, silver, copper, ivory and precious and semi-precious stones. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are abound with descriptions of ornaments and the code of Manu defines the duties of the goldsmith.

By the third century B.C., India was the leading exporter of gemstones, particularly diamonds. Gold was usually imported into the country, a practice prevalent even during the Mughal period.

Ornaments for every part of the body

In India the ornaments are made practically for every part of the body. Such a variety of ornaments bears the testimony to the excellent skills of the jewelers in India. The range of jewelry in India varied from religious one to purely aesthetic one. Jewelry was crafted not just for humans but also for the gods, ceremonial elephants and horses. The craft of jewelry was given a royal patronage right from the ancient times. The rajas and maharajas vied with each other to possess the most exquisite and the most magnificent pieces of jewelry. Temple complexes supported many different styles of jewelery-scented sandalwood bead necklaces, the prayer bead or the rudraksh (berry of the elaocarpus canitrus) necklace, multicoloured silk and gold thread necklaces.

Jewelry in India fulfils many functions and wearing it has several implications. At the most obvious level, it is a form of adornment satisfying Man's innate desire to beautify himself. However, jewelry also serves as an identity marker, as security, and as symbol of social contracts. For Hindus, jewelry is associated with most religious ceremonies, especially the samaskaras (stages of life) such as the namkarna (naming ceremony) or the vivaha (marriage). To signify marital status, Hindu women must wear the mangalsutra or the thali, which consist of gold pendants strung in a certain combination with other beads. Traditionally, a goldsmith pierces a child's ear with a gold pin twelve days after it is born.

Jewelry as investment

In the Hindu, Jain and Sikh community where women do not inherit landed property, jewelry was a major component of the streedhana (gifts given to a woman at the time of her marriage). jewelry, because of its easy convertibility into cash, was thus regarded as security and investment.

Jewelry as investment and identity marker is evident in the plethora of ornaments worn by people from nomadic and migrant tribal communities. It is not uncommon to find Banraja women wearing a wide variety of silver jewelry. A profusion of earrings in various sizes, bangles of bone, shell and ivory extending from the wrist to the armpit along with silver bracelets, chokers, pendants and necklaces, nose rings, and heavy anklets are worn by most of the migrant groups, especially in Western India.

The setting of precious gems and stones in rings, pendants, necklaces and bracelets gained prominence due to the belief that these stones are associated with certain powers. In Bengal, it is common to find iron, silver and gold wires twisted together to form a bracelet, a combination that according to popular belief gives the wearer health and strength.

The goldsmiths

In India, goldsmiths are usually men and are referred to by a variety of names depending on the region-sonar, swarnakara, panchallar, or thattan. In the Vedic period, goldsmiths had a much higher standing than most other artisans, perhaps because they worked with a precious metal. The goldsmiths had royal patrons. Historical records show that Indian jewellers mastered quite early the various skills required to make fine jewelery-mixing alloys, molding, drawing fine wires, setting stones, inlay work, relief, drawing gold and silver into thin wires, plating and gilding. In smaller places, the goldsmith may perform all the processes involved in producing a finished piece. In cities, the different operations are undertaken by separate people-the goldsmith prepares the skeletal framework, the chatera engraves, the kundansaaz or jaria sets the stones while the meenasaaz enamels it.

Unique Styles of Jewelry

Different regions of India boast of jewellery making styles unique to them -in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh fine filigree work in silver, in Jaipur the art of enamelling or meenakari, temple jewellery from Nagercoil and kundan or the setting of semi-precious or precious stones in gold from Delhi. A wide variety of silver beads are found all over India, especially in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.

In filigree work, patterns of leaves, flowers, butterflies, birds and geometrical shapes are made with silver wires of varying thickness. The skilled jewellers draw out fine wires of silver mixed with a little bit of lead and make an outline of the pattern in thick wire. Fine wires are then collected inside the framework to create a delicate lace-like appearance.

Meenakari and kundan are the styles of jewelry making influenced by the Mughals and are usually used in combination to make jewelry that can be worn on both sides such as chokers and necklaces. The temple jewelry of Nagercoil consists of traditional gold ornaments studded with red and green semi-precious stones. These were used as offerings to the Gods and hence the name. Today, some of these designs are being made in silver and then washed with gold.

In Assam, soft 24 carat gold is fashioned into earrings and necklaces modeled on the local flora and fauna-earrings like the hona, which replicate the orchid and the lokaparo, which consists of two birds placed back to back.

In Nagaland, gold is used to craft imitations of the human head and long funnel shaped beads which are used in combination with shells, animal claws and teeth and precious and semi-precious stones.

The designs in solid gold jewelery of Tamil Nadu and Kerala are inspired by nature. The paisley motif or the ambi, rice grains, the cobra's hood, melon and cucumber seeds are some of the common motifs.

Silversmiths of Himachal Pradesh craft large ornaments, which have a very delicate and intricate appearance. Headdresses called chak, long earrings and large nose-rings with papal leaf or bird motifs are the specialties of the region. In Ladakh, silver charm boxes and headdresses called perak with rows of turquoise, cornelian, coral and agate stitched onto it are quite common.