Jewelry making, as a beautiful art, can be traced back over so many years as people always wanted to have themselves adorned with items and pieces of beauty. While its primary purpose is adornment, jewelry also serves as a way of storing wealth and even serves as a status symbol. Jewelry has been crafted from almost every material that you can imagine. Gems, beads, metals, shells and many other things are involved in this craft. The choice of materials which is popular in a specific culture and those available in local environments are commonly used in making timely pieces. Over the years, jewelry making as a beautiful art has transcends geography in the use of materials used. Wearing jewelry can make one very classy and elegant which is the reason why many people are drawn to it. Making jewelry can be inexpensive or expensive process depending on those materials which you intend to use. Jewelry making has started by hand and many jewelers used hand tools that are specially designed in order to come up with every unique item. Because of the advancement and continuous development in technology, jewelry is now being created using high-tech machineries. The employment of these advanced tools in the process of making pieces resulted to fast and more productive work. This gave the hand the rest while at the same time making the process a lot easier and smoother. The technology, however, was not able to completely abolished handmade jewelry as there are many artisan pieces are hand crafted.
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