Incredible jewelry faraway India

India - a country of lotus flowers and quaint architectural ornaments, sweet songs of eternal love and freedom. All this is reflected in Indian jewelry, jewelers in predilection for large gems, elegant metallic lace, harmony and incongruous riot of colors. Originality and brilliance - two words that fully describe the style of jewelry in India.

The history of jewelry in India is inextricably linked to the development of culture. The accounts of them are found in works of literature, such as the epic "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata", images of people in the pictures or on the frescoes, as with the essential elements of jewelry.

The first mention of Indian jewelry date back to the fourth millennium BC. These were often unique products consisting millimeter beads of gold, silver or other materials assembled in the form of long chains

With the development of precious stones around the year 300 BC, the cold metal ornaments added multi-faceted brilliance of diamonds.

But gold jewelry with semi-precious stones were the privilege of not only women but also men. So in India spread of boys wearing jewelry items such as earrings or bracelets. This is in some sense measure of masculinity, and, of course, membership of a particular caste.

And for women, in the worst of times, it's the only thing she can bring along from the former married life, hence the huge amount of jewelry worn at the same time.

But this does not mean that the decorations must be made of expensive components. In contrast, in India practice to mix different textures in the manufacture of jewelry, such as diamonds are quite harmoniously coexist with coarse copper, coral beads, ivory and various non-precious stones and metals.

However, the developed two distinct types of Indian jewelry that are relatively different from each other not only technique, but also the materials used - Meenakari and Kundan.

"Meenakari"
This jewelry making technique with the use of enamel coatings of metal. The basis is usually taken gold - for wearable jewelry and silver - more for luxury items, various boxes, photo frames. The color palette of the enamel is very diverse, sometimes on a relatively small area of ​​decoration fits the whole "rainbow".

This is a laborious and time-consuming work, so in India, there are only three heirlooms school style "Meenakari" engaged in the manufacture of such products, however, receive exclusive jewelery and quite expensive.