Handcrafted Designer Jewelry
'Now It Gets Personal'
Handcrafted designer jewelry is experiencing a resurgence in interest. The
focus of jewelry lovers is shifting from 'fine', 'pretty', 'expensive looking'
to 'personal', 'my style', 'expression'.
Is this a temporary trend? A fad? We see it as jewelry coming full circle to where it
was and should be...
Handcrafted Designer Jewelry Come Full Circle
We have developed the custom to adorn ourselves with jewelry made with hands
since the beginning of civilization.
Industrialization introduced machines and mass production.
Manufacturers mass produce jewelry with machines to generate cloned designs
cheaply compared to traditional handcrafting. Like most things, jewelry is now
mainly machine made.
In recent years, a renaissance is taking place and interest in handcrafted
jewelry escalated. Unique jewelry designs made by hand through simple tools are
highly valued again.
This emerging demand of designer handcrafted jewelry is in tandem with the
ever increasing hunger for self expression and personalization.
Hands Replacing Machines?
An odd tendency is emerging with the rising status of handcrafted designer
jewelry - more and more mass-produced jewelry sold today is handmade. Artisans
and craftsmen take their place where machines used to occupy in factories.
It seems to be an unavoidable development as businesses ride on the popularity of
handcrafted designer jewelry to duplicate its values. Once again doing so as
cheaply as possible.
Is this new phenomenon a boon or bane to jewelry lovers?
It is always good to pay less for something but it is not good to pay less for
something else!
As with massed produced items, the objectives are always 'fast' and 'cheap'.
In the case of handcrafted jewelry, there are compromises, huge losses in
material quality, skill, workmanship and intangible values of uniqueness,
scarcity, creativity and originality.
Massed produced jewelry, even handcrafted ones simply has 'less life' and 'less
soul' in them. They offer less compliment to their wearer, lending the appearance
of mass-produced to the wearer.
Uniqueness and quality are prominent, allowing designer jewellery to be
conspicuous among mass-manufactured, identical jewellery.
Selecting designer handmade jewelry to reflect your style and interest will add
that personal touch and express your individuality.
Wearing designer jewelry that an artist has lovingly created by hand is
blissful.
Increase Rarity in Handmade Designer Jewelry Exponentially
Designer jewelry is by nature, rare. Only a pair of hands is involved with
little intention to race against machines in output.
This is one of the qualities of handcrafted designer jewelry that is highly
coveted. Wearing something this rare simply makes you feel special, one of a
kind.
Designers are helping us express what we feel and know, "we are special and
unique", by limiting the quantity of each design. Details are continued on...
