What’s it like? Every month in the first week (from November to January) I will be specifying a theme (a material, a technique or concept) for the Design of the Month Contest. Using the specified theme you have to make “ONE piece/set” of jewelry. Photograph and title it suitably and e-mail it to me before…
India is a land of varied jewellery traditions or parampara which makes traditional jewellery exotic by international standards. So it can be quite overwhelming when you shop for, collect or study Indian Jewellery. In this post, I have compiled a list of things to know about Types of Indian jewellery and their styles so that…
Knotting Knotting is a traditional technique for stringing pearls and gemstones.Pearls are traditionally knotted because the knotsprevent the beads from rubbing against each other.The knots also prevent loss if a strand should accidentally break. Traditionally only Silk thread is used to knot pearls. I don’t do anything by the book, so you’ll find me using…
Here is a list of Ancient Indian Jewellery (from Vedic period – to Gupta period) worn in each part of the body starting from the head. Please add to the list you find something missing. Many of these are in use even now and some disappeared in the following periods and made an emergence after…