Your Guide To Gems And Jewelry Plr Ebook

PLR Ebook Table Of Contents

Your Guide to Precious Gems and Jewelry
Learning the Lingo
What About Carats
Evaluating Color
Judging Transparency and Clarity
All About Cuts
Learn About Cat’s Eye and Stars
Pros and Cons of Synthetics
What Are the Different Types of Stones
Evaluating Gemstones
How to Spot Fraud
Caring for Your Jewelry
Where and How Gemstones Are Mined
Buying Wholesale
Hand-crafted Jewelry

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Learning the Lingo

Jewelry with a Capital J, Understanding Basic Jewelry Terms, Processes, and Techniques

It is easy to feel intimidated and out-of-place when you’re visiting a high-class jewelry store for the first time. To avoid making unwanted and uninformed purchases, improve your knowledge about jewelry starting with the tips below. If you speak the same language people in the jewelry industry speak then you’ll go home with the jewelry piece you want, need, and definitely can afford.

The Meaning of Gemstone

A gemstone may be a rock, mineral, or even a petrified material that’s cut and polished to be used for making jewelry. It may even be harvested like pearls or organic material like amber, just as long as it has aesthetic appeal. In the old days, precious gemstones only referred to the Big Three: emeralds, sapphires, and rubies. Everything else was labeled as semi-precious gemstones.

Categories today, however, have changed and expanded to avoid further confusion.

The Ins and Outs of Lapidary

Lapidary refers to the process of cutting and polishing gemstones. Rough materials are left uncut and unpolished. Cobbed materials are referred to as fractured. Materials like silicon carbide and diamond, due to their hardness, are used for cutting gemstones in a progressive abrasion process. Compounds like aluminum and chromium oxide are, on the other hand, used for polishing gemstones.