The Art of Fine Jewellery Design

If you're wondering how to start an invitation design business, then wonder no more. If you're very creative and have a talent for business, too, you could sell wedding invitations that you create yourself.

Since you'll be offering designer wedding stationery, you should also have someone make you some nice business cards and business stationery.

Jewellery also became a status symbol, indicating power and wealth.

Egyptian Jewellery

The art of jewellery design is considered to have originated in Egypt.

Typical jewellery designs from this period use gold fashioned into shapes such as eagles and scarab beetles.

Ancient Roman Jewellery

Jewellery was a prominent part of everyday life in the Second Millennium BC, the Ancient Roman period.

Hellenistic Jewellery

Semi-precious stones such as chalcedony, cornelian, garnet, amethyst and quartz crystals became widely used in jewellery during this period.

Renaissance Jewellery

Jewellery also included diamonds, which had been discovered in India in the 1300's.

Royalty were key players in the establishment of exotic jewellery as a fashion.

Victorian Jewellery

This led to polished agate jewellery known as "Scottish Pebbles" becoming fashionable.

This sombre period lasted until the mid-1880s and saw darker stones such as black onyx used in jewellery design.

Contemporary Jewellery Design

Contemporary jewellery design has become a skill which requires study and qualifications.

Bespoke jewellery allows for the combination of personal sentiment with professional expertise. Many different styles are incorporated into modern jewellery design from all cultures and influences.