Handmade Jewellery

Like handcrafted, handmade jewellery is also considered superior to machine-made jewellery in the entire industry. Handcrafted jewellery always instils pride and prestige as it is always created with personal attention and is thus unique and expensive.

Features of handcrafted jewellery

• Artisans have to invest months and even years sometimes to make beautiful intricate designs. Needless to say, the quality would be unmatched.

  In the case of handcrafted jewellery, the craftsmen make each piece with high concentration and care. When it is handmade, monitoring and controlling can be quickly done from the beginning till the end.

• The value of the time invested in what makes handcrafted pieces so valuable. Also, the price of each piece varies according to the craftsmanship involved. The beauty and appeal of handmade jewellery changes with its maker. This is because the maker shares a personal relationship with his own handcrafted pieces. He knows every curve and every line incorporated in his designs. all of which is done with specific intentions too.

• Apart from the price, the charm of the jewellery also varies from craftsman to craftsman. This is because as the design progresses the craftsman spends more and more time with his designs and there grows a special kind of bond between him and his designs, so much so that his energy sort of gets infused with the creation.

  In India, Jaipur is the hub of handcrafted jewellery, where gifted artisans create uniquely amazing designs with their hands taking inspiration from even simple kitchenware to the leaves in a tree. In India, such artisans are known as ‘karigars’. They only take a little help from the modern-day machinery available.

Steps in creating handmade jewellery

• First, a block of Silver or gold or platinum is heated to make it moldable enough to turn into various jewellery designs.

• With the help of an iron wheel called Patti, sheets or wires are made out of the melted gold or Silver by rolling it over the metal. Once it’s converted into sheets or wires, they are moved to the karigar’s table.

• Then the karigars start making subtle designs, by first creating a base out of metals and then shaping the pieces such as collets, rings, links, shanks and bands on which the gemstones are embossed, or intricate designs are carved. Everything that is needed to complete the design is made at this stage and are soldered together.

• Then the polishing and the final touch-ups are done.