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Jewelry Crystals and Crafts Insider
How to Use Crystal to Make Handmade Crystal Jewelry?
by Samina Gulzar on May 07 2024
How to Use Crystal to Make Handmade Crystal Jewelry?
You have crystals but worried about how to use crystals to make handmade crystal jewelry? Raw gemstones are natural stones which are extracted from the mine. Rough stones come in different crystal structure. Rough crystals are untouched, uncut, unpolished and untreated. They have original value. Many people with having belief on crystal healing would like to buy only natural stones instead imitation or synthetic stones. Natural Crystals are popular choice for handmade jewelry in combination with traditional art and designs. With having raw gemstones and crystals, you can decide how to make their best use. Jewelry is the best choice to raw crystals.
Boho designs and festive designed jewelry is comprising on use of tribal jewelry accessories and natural crystals or tumbled stones. There are also other styles and jewelry making ideas by which crystals can be used in jewelry designing. Here are a few we will discuss one by one.
Use of Crystals in Boho style jewelry or Bohemian Style Jewelry
Wire wrapped Jewelry designs with the help of crystals
Silver Jewelry and crystals
Gold Plated Jewelry for precious stone crystals
Crystal Healing Pendants
Handmade Macramé Jewelry with Crystals
1- Boho Style Tribal Jewelry
Boho style jewelry is very popular in which different crystals are used along with tribal and gypsy touch. Sometimes peacock feathers are used in this jewelry. This is also called bohemian jewelry. Various types of tumbled stones, cabochons especially turquoise cabochons are used in making boho jewelry.
2- Handmade Wire wrapped jewelry with the use of Crystals
Wire wrapped jewelry is a trend setter jewelry in handmade jewelry. There are tons of ideas for wire wrapped jewelry using natural raw gemstones and crystals. Wire wrapped jewelry include earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, anklets, head piece and much more. Most popular are wire wrapped pendants using raw crystals.
Small crystals like tourmaline, spinels, water melon tourmaline are one of the favorite stones used for wire wrapped jewelry.
If you love to decorate yourself with pretty jewelry, save your money to make wire-wrapped crystal earrings or rings for you. It will be quite fun to play with crystals in wire wrapping.
3- Raw Crystals in Silver jewelry
Set raw crystal or gemstones in beautiful sterling silver jewelry. It might be a tricky to use crystals in silver jewelry. You need select any crystal either in points or a chunk form. Those points or chunks will be fixed in silver frames either in form of ring, or pendants, or earrings.
Crystals in raw form are used in silver rings, pendants, earrings. For example,
4- Raw Crystals in Gold Jewelry
Crystals are also used in gold jewelry. For this purpose, precious stone crystals are selected such as emeralds, tanzanite, sapphire, rubies, spinels. They are adjusted into gold jewelry. They are sold at high end precious stone jewelry. Raw Emerald crystals or Raw Tanzanite crystals give awesome feeling in form of rough adjusted into gold jewelry such as rings, pendants, or earrings.
5- Crystal Healing Pendants
Crystals are also used in silver sterling pendants. They are popular as crystal healing pendants. They are made by silver sterling 925. Many natural crystals are used in raw form exactly in their original formation. However some crystals are slightly polished to give them a crystal look before fixing in silver chains and hooks. Popular gemstones or crystals for pendants are amethyst, agate, rose quartz, quartz points, faden quartz, lapis lazuli, black tourmaline, hessonite garnet, tourmaline, black tourmaline, peridots, diamond quartz crystals and many others.
6- Handmade Macramé Jewelry with Raw Crystals
Ever dreamed of making your own macramé earring or ring or a necklace? Macramé jewelry is the right choice. Use of crystals make macramé jewelry art quite unique. Crystals points are used or raw gemstone chunks are used to wrap them with colorful yarn. Yarn is used by making different knots to wrap the yarn around the raw crystals or gemstones. yarn wrapped macramé include pendants, earrings, rings, bracelets especially.
This is very easy to learn macramé jewelry. Macramé bracelets are perfect for beginner and advanced crafters to learn about macramé art. Macramé is a form of yarn making cords. The cords are knotted instead woven. Friendship macramé bracelets are poplar for friendship gift. The knotted technique can be used to make different type of jewelry using raw crystals.
Jewelry making tools are available online or any near by store. you can find many ideas or inspiration on jewelry making articles, videos and blogs.
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Guide to Buy Jewelry Wholesale
by Samina Gulzar on May 07 2024
Guide to Buy Jewelry Wholesale
Jewelry is the key product which most retailers like the most. It is cheap and can use as a gift and personal property also. Jewelry in gold also works as a property or an asset. Apart from ornament, jewelry has been used for many purposes. Wholesale jewelry help jewelry retailers and dealers by great offers. Jewelry is a prime product for retailers. Having stock for resellers help them to make more money. However, before going into wholesale deals, one must keep the following guidelines before purchasing or buying jewelry wholesale.
Look for Good Wholesale Jewelry Supplier
In case of sudden orders, it becomes difficult to supply or make jewelry. Your whole supplier must provide you and fulfill your demand on time. By this, you can make a good profit. Another issue is quality. If your supplier is unable to provide you quality products, it would be difficult for you to satisfy your customers. Your supplier must provide you quality jewelry accessories so you may not lose your customers. While choosing the whole supplier, do the following needful:-
Choose a trustworthy wholesale supplier
Focus on quality
Check your wholesale supplier reputation online, see recommendations on pages. website and social media engagements
Make a relationship with your supplier
Trust is another thing that is a must between the two parties.
Read Product Description before buying online
One must read the product descriptions before buying online. The item description should be the same as you will receive. So if you find another thing which is not mentioned in the description, it would be easy for you to return. This is why you should check product descriptions. The description usually includes size, weight, material, and country of origin.
Order Sampling
You should try the first sample order before ordering wholesale because, in a sample order, you can understand the supplier quality, process and terms, and conditions. Once you will be satisfied, you can go for the next wholesale order.
Wholesale Jewelry Price
While going for wholesale jewelry, price is a key factor. However apart from price, there many other factors that are most important than the price itself. Quality, service, your relationship is above all. The good supplier does not create greed overprice things. Rather, it focuses on quality, variety, and building relationships. Both underpricing and overpricing are not favorable for a buyer.
Focus on Trending Items
Before making a decision about buying online, search for trending items. So once you buy bulk stock, you can not be disappointed later. If you dont find your required stock online, you can email the supplier and check for the latest trends.
Make Offers and Promotions
Dont keep stock for a long time. You must work with a great struggle to sell the stock immediately or as soon as possible. For this, you can create new promotions and offers for your new stock to allure the customers.
Work on Supply and Demand
Once you are able to create demands, you must have stock on time to supply or to make jewelry out of that stock. The more there will be demands, the more you will be able to order bulk. However, whenever there is a demand, there must be a product also in the pipeline to supply on time. A balance between supply and demand must be established at any cost. otherwise, making a profit would not be possible.
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Let Us Have a look at What is Traditional Clothing?
by Samina Gulzar on May 07 2024
Let Us Have a look at What is Traditional Clothing?
Human beings first priority that developed with other attributes of human civilization was their covering bodies. From covering bodies with leaves, it gradually developed towards making of dresses by use of different methods. Different cultures, relogions, places, tribes contributed to give them unique colours and characteristics. Variation of culture to culture participated in the forming uniqueness of dresses.
Traditional clothing points out the identity of particular culture and area. Different communities developed traditional clothings also related to different events. Even the modern fashion designing also get help from traditional clothing by mixing new trends.
In Pakistan, there are various types of cultures. The ethnic clothing in Pakistan which is worn by women and men all over the country, represents Pakistan in a colourful way. The different, diverse ideologies of local people has thrown effects on the development of traditional clothing. Pakistna is blessed with many weathers such as winter, summer, autumn, moonsoon, spring and many others. Dresses have also been developed keepin in view weather affects.
Pakistan has unique diversity of cultures. At every few kilometers, one will see difference in culture, clothing and cultural adaptation. The popular clothing in Pakistan belongs to following:-
Shalwar Qameez
Pashtun culture
Balochi
Sindhi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Hunzai
Saraiki
There are many many different cultures which are mixture of any of above two, three or have more branches.
1- Shalwar Qameez
Shalwar Qameez is the Pakistan's national dress. Men and Women both wear it in all provinces i.e. Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan, KPK and Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Kashmir. Kameez means shirts and Shalwar means loose trousers.
2- Pashtun Culture and Kuchi Dresses
Kuchi Dresses are popular traditional clothing in Pashtun area which is on the north west side of Pakistan. The women wear long and big size clothings like below:-
Men wears handmade jackets which are popular on both sides of Pakistan and Afghanistan .
3- Balochi Dresses
Baluchi people wear different types of shalwar / qameez, scarfs and turbaan specifically. Men wears baggy shalwar and loose kameez. Baloch women attire is one of the beautiful. Handmade work is done on clothing by use of different colours of wool and mirror work. An aesthetic embroidery is done in different designing.
4- Sindhi Dresses
Sindhi people on east side of Pakistan residing, wear Ajrak, cholla. Ajrak is the popular ethnic wears in Sindh. Both women and men wear in different way. Ajrak has mostly block printing by use of different colours along with popular sindhi mirror work and embriodery. Sindhi women also wear choli and lehnga in the desert.
5- Kashmiri Dresses
Pashmina shawls or scarfs have awesome variety and handmade artwork of Kashmir crafters. Pashmina is one of the example. Pashmina is a kind of wool got from goat breeds which are usually found in Kashmir or himalayn regions. Pashmina is related to persian word " pasmina" . It means " made from wool". Kashmir pashmina shawls or scarfs are famous all over the world. The price goes from $50 to $5000 USD even depending upon quality, art work .
6- Punjabi Dresses
In Punjab, mostly men and women wear shalwar qameez (shirt + loose trouser), Shirt + Dhoti / Lungi. There are different varieties of Pujabis such as Multani , Bahawalpuri, Photohari in different styles and regional look. Punjabi main culture is wearing " Turban" which is called " Pagri". Along with pagri, people wear khusa (traditionally embriodered shoes) . Women wear simple shalwar Kameez. In countryside, women wear different combination of shalwar Kameez such as Shalwar + Kameez, Kameez+DHOTI, Kameez + lehnga etc.
7- Hunza Dresses
Hunza people wears also Shalwar Kameez most of the time. However they add with them special Hunza Cap with having bird wing over it. Women also wear caps with handmade embriodery.
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Here are Top Ten Traditional Wears of Pakistan
by Samina Gulzar on May 07 2024
Here are Top Ten Traditional Wears of Pakistan
Human beings first priority that developed with other attributes of human civilization was their covering bodies. From covering bodies with leaves, it gradually developed towards making of dresses by use of different methods. Different cultures, relogions, places, tribes contributed to give them unique colours and characteristics. Variation of culture to culture participated in the forming uniqueness of dresses.
Traditional clothing points out the identity of particular culture and area. Different communities developed traditional clothings also related to different events. Even the modern fashion designing also get help from traditional clothing by mixing new trends.
In Pakistan, there are various types of cultures. The ethnic clothing in Pakistan which is worn by women and men all over the country, represents Pakistan in a colourful way. The different, diverse ideologies of local people has thrown effects on the development of traditional clothing. Pakistna is blessed with many weathers such as winter, summer, autumn, moonsoon, spring and many others. Dresses have also been developed keepin in view weather affects.
Pakistan has unique diversity of cultures. At every few kilometers, one will see difference in culture, clothing and cultural adaptation. The popular clothing in Pakistan belongs to following:-
Kuchi Dresses
Pashmina Shawls / Scarf
Peshawari Chapal / Traditional Shoes
Multani Khusa / Traditional Shoes
Ajrak
Balochi Embriodery Work
Chunri / Shawl / Scarf
Shalwar Kameez
Traditional Caps
Dupata
There are many many different cultures which are mixture of any of above two, three or have more branches.
1- Shalwar Qameez
Shalwar Qameez is the Pakistan's national dress. Men and Women both wear it in all provinces i.e. Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan, KPK and Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Kashmir. Kameez means shirts and Shalwar means loose trousers.
2- Pashtun Culture and Kuchi Dresses
Kuchi Dresses are popular traditional clothing in Pashtun area which is on the north west side of Pakistan. The women wear long and big size clothings like below:-
Men wears handmade jackets which are popular on both sides of Pakistan and Afghanistan .
3- Balochi Dresses
Baluchi people wear different types of shalwar / qameez, scarfs and turbaan specifically. Men wears baggy shalwar and loose kameez. Baloch women attire is one of the beautiful. Handmade work is done on clothing by use of different colours of wool and mirror work. An aesthetic embroidery is done in different designing.
4- Sindhi Dresses
Sindhi people on east side of Pakistan residing, wear Ajrak, cholla. Ajrak is the popular ethnic wears in Sindh. Both women and men wear in different way. Ajrak has mostly block printing by use of different colours along with popular sindhi mirror work and embriodery. Sindhi women also wear choli and lehnga in the desert.
5- Kashmiri Dresses
Pashmina shawls or scarfs have awesome variety and handmade artwork of Kashmir crafters. Pashmina is one of the example. Pashmina is a kind of wool got from goat breeds which are usually found in Kashmir or himalayn regions. Pashmina is related to persian word " pasmina" . It means " made from wool". Kashmir pashmina shawls or scarfs are famous all over the world. The price goes from $50 to $5000 USD even depending upon quality, art work .
6- Punjabi Dresses
In Punjab, mostly men and women wear shalwar qameez (shirt + loose trouser), Shirt + Dhoti / Lungi. There are different varieties of Pujabis such as Multani , Bahawalpuri, Photohari in different styles and regional look. Punjabi main culture is wearing " Turban" which is called " Pagri". Along with pagri, people wear khusa (traditionally embriodered shoes) . Women wear simple shalwar Kameez. In countryside, women wear different combination of shalwar Kameez such as Shalwar + Kameez, Kameez+DHOTI, Kameez + lehnga etc.
7- Hunza Dresses
Hunza people wears also Shalwar Kameez most of the time. However they add with them special Hunza Cap with having bird wing over it. Women also wear caps with handmade embriodery.
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by Samina Gulzar on May 07 2024
Afghan Tribal Kuchi Jewelry
A very Beautiful Tribal Kuchi Jewelry many of the market people collect the tribal jewelry for selling. Most of the people use it in belly dance. In addition to authentic Tribal Jewelry, Folk Market also sells new Tribal Jewelry reproductions, identified as "contemporary" in their descriptions. Kuchi Tribal jewelry material is old. Afghanistan provides kuchi tribal jewelry Gypsy Belly Dance Nomade.
Folk Market provides Kuchi Jewelry on wholesale and retail. Our Kuchi Afghan traditional Tribal Nomadic costume jewelry gives unique look. Many people like the style in the form of Bohemian, Boho, Indie Chic, Hippie. Belly dance performers from all over the world prefer buying koochi pashtoon tribes jewelry. Some people also call it American tribal jewelry these days as many people in America now use this jewelry and know them by American tribal style jewelry or ATS.
Made in Afghanistan and Pakistan Northwest.
Which Material and Gemstones Use in Tribal Kuchi Jewelry?
The Afghan Tribal kuchi jewelry elements that have been used in jewelry-making since long back. Since long back, In most tribal areas, silver is widely used in the making of jewelry. More recently, Silver in the form of a hole or hanging hook that looks like pendant hook or melted coins has been used into Tribal Jewelry. In Tribal jewelry, the following material is usually used.
Gillet
German Silver
Brass
Antique coins
Sterling Silver 925
Silver platted
Gold Plated
Popular Gemstones Used in the jewelry
The rich blue color of turquoise
Synthetic turquoise
Natural Turquoise
Natural Lapislazuli
Coral
Oynx
Quartz
Sapphire
Tourmaline
Serpentine
Calcite
Tiger Iron
Fadden Quartz
Sapphire
Peridot
Emerald
Rutile Quartz
Amethyst
Garnet
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