Saturday, January 17, 2009

Spiritual Jewelry And Sacred Talismans for Protection

By David R.

The design of modern jewelry can be inspired by present or recent events but also by ancient symbols and traditions. A good example of recent events that have inspired jewelry designers is the first atomic bomb leading to a massive increase of starburst designs and sprays of diamonds. Ancient traditions can be found in the designs of Egyptian jewelry, spiritual jewelry with kabala symbols, tribal designs, amulets for protection and sacred talismans. The day or night time also has its influence on these designs being gold as the preferred metal for daytime jewelry and diamonds for the evening or night

Jewelry you can use during the day and others for the night

Florentine finishes, foxtail chains, mesh and similar are preferred for golden jewelry that is being worn during daytime. Alternative to this are string of pearls, natural or cultivated. These pearl based designs were very popular amongst the modern jewelry designers in the fifties

The colorful sixties marked a radical change in the use of materials by jewelry designers. Instead of using the traditional diamonds, gold and platinum these modern jewelry designers also started to make use of less noble materials like gemstones, silver, geode crystals and even regular metals like steel or copper. Women started to use these hybrid jewels because of their colorful designs

Trends are known to change very often so in the seventies the jewelry designs were influenced and inspired by the blooming of feminism and the womens movement. This lead to a complete different type of jewelry designs. Women started to have a major influence on the designing of jewelry because they expressed their likes and dislikes. Jewelry started to look as they wanted by incorporating new materials like wood, ivory, rock crystals and coral.

In the eighties and beginning of the nineties people tended to become more affluent which was noted by the jewelry designers and they started to create more glamorous, sparkling and glitzy styles of jewelry. When the princess of Wales, Lady Di wedded there was again an obvious change in the creation of designs , shifting to a more elegant and graceful touch.

From that moment until today there have been many changes in modern jewelry design especially the incorporation of synthetic materials, non-precious metals, hybrid metals, metal clay, PMC, synthetic gemstones, the coloring of pearls and multicolored diamonds. These new designs of the 21st century are more unique and special than ever before.

When Man became aware of the presence of powers greater than himself he started to create spiritual jewelry for protection and blessing. This spiritual jewelry came in the form of rings, bracers, amulets, talismans and necklaces. Today there are many spiritual jewelry designers specialized in this kind of jewelry. Although the process of making the jewelry may have changed these unique jewels are still made based on ancient traditions and they make an excellent gift. - 16463

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