The world's fantasy - Indian Jewelry

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India is credited as one of the oldest and persistent country for making jewelry around the globe. With its glitter, tradition and latest fashion Indian jewelry entices the whole world in the web of desire to at least own a pricey designed jewelry for life.

Each kind of Indian jewelry owes a unique style. The style and design depend on the tribes that started designing them initially. The commonly used stones in Indian jewelry are coral, sugilite, charoite and gaspeite. Read further to know its fascinating historical facts and different kinds of Indian jewelry that can leave any human being mesmerized with just a look.

Interesting facts

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• Indian sub- continent is known for the longest continuous legacy of jewelry making around the globe. People from Indus valley civilizations are known as one of the first who started making jewelry. They had started creating gold earrings and necklaces, bead necklaces and metallic necklaces by 1,500 BC.
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• Another interesting feature that adds on to this civilization is unlike many other cultures they never buried the jewelry with the dead. They rather passed it down to their off springs.
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• India was the first country to mine diamonds although there is significant evidence that they used precious gems in their jewelry prior to these.
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Popular Indian Jewelry

A variety of body jewelry can be seen in india, that includes nose rings, earrings, bracelets, crowns, rings, anklets, chokers, amulets and neckalce. A craftsmen while making the jewelry has to follow a rigid rule. While making the jewelry, temperature has to be low as the heat could harm the gold threading. They have to concentrate on each piece at a time. This is the cause for all the delay and long wait, but the wait is worthwhile and very expensive.

However every region in india differs in jewelry making as they owe their own paricular style and technique. A lot of beads and metals are used in Delhi, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. Rajasthan uses beads too but they are more inclined to silver. Precious stones, shells and mirrors are other accessories worn by the traditional Rajasthani inhabitants. Jewelry from Kashmir have similar properties as of the pink city. It is also famous for its sapphires.

Menakari jewelry another form of jewelry from Rajasthan is a gold jewelry with studded precious gemstones. These stones are later enameled with gold. Kundan jewelry is yet another magnificient art from the same land. Kundan is a semi precious opaque crystal, which is shaped individually and then, soldered and inserted kundan stone. It is also know for its 'Theva art'

The best Terracotta jewelry can be found in West Bengal. It is made from clay with engraved designs. Spectacular necklaces, rings, bracelets, anklets, pendants, bangles, and other trinkets are made for women. West Bengal is also known for Navaratna jewelry. It is the necklace of nine gems. The nine stones strung together are considered auspicious as they promise to bring well-being of the wearer. It is believed that it acts as shied against various diseases and danger. The nine stone in it are diamond, ruby, emerald, coral, pearl, sapphire, garnet, topaz and a stone called vaidurya.

South India like Karnataka and Tamil Nadu is famous for temple jewelry. It is made of 22-karat gold and studded precious stones. The southern India is also famous for ethnic jewewlry like Mangamalai and Khasmalai made of pure gold. The word manga here means mango and malai means chain, this indicates that small shaped mangoes are joined together to form a gold chain. The same is true with the Khasamalai, however Khas here means coins.

In Hyderabad you will find different coloured pearls from the exquisite white to dark grey in the jewelry. These are stung together in necklaces and bracelets or set singly in earrings, bangles and other ornaments.