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New Jewelry Designs

Check out the new products page of our website. I added quite a few new items, some pendants, earrings, and a bunch of new rings. These styles are brand new and very unique.

Turquoise stones, silver findings, jewelry molds, and more!

Are you looking for loose turquoise gemstones, pre-made rubber jewelry molds, sterling silver findings, or other jewelry related merchandise? Check out this new Gemstone Jewelry Store on ebay. It's called The Stone Liquidator Co. and this store is filled with great quality jewelry manufacturing products.

Handmade Jewelry

Handmade jewelry is any piece of jewelry which has been assembled and formed by hand rather than through the use of machines. According to the guidelines of the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), in order to be stamped or called "handmade" the work must be made solely by hand power or hand guidance. In essence, this means that jewelry may be made using drills, lathes, and other machinery, but it must be guided by human hand. This precludes the use of punch presses and CNC (computer numerical control) machinery, to name a few processes that would not qualify as "handmade". Beyond that caveat it can be anything made out of anything that would be considered jewelry. The American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) Spectrum awards, the Gem Center Idar Oberstein, and the De Beers Awards include awards specifically for handmade jewelry.

Although there is much mass produced jewelry in the world, there are many people who prefer to have work that is hand-crafted by a real artisan, and the arena of hand made jewelry and other items will likely remain healthy because of that fact. Much jewelry that is marked or sold as "hand made" often is not truly so, though it may be essentially so.

Australian Black Opal

Black Opal is that naturally occurring one piece or solid opal, which is jet black to dark grayish-blue or deep brown in color, and absorbs most white light impinging on it and reflects only a minimum. As a consequence, all optical diffraction effects are much more brilliant because of the sharp tonal contract.

Black Opal, a gemstone which has had an important effect overseas as a product of Australian, requires this precise meaning so that the quality of this gem can be meaningfully established. Sometimes off-colored white opal has been passed off to a visitor as being black opal!

-from "A Field Guide to Australian Opals", by Barrie O'Leary

New blog on DeSantis Jewelry

We have a new blog on our website. The web address is http://www.desantisjewelry.com/blog. DeSantis Jewelry Artisan's Blog will be an information based location consisting of how to's and jewelry education as well as new jewelry updates. Check it frequently as it will be updated frequently.