Nersel’s Designer Trendy Gold Jewelry

1. Layered necklaces
2. Long Chains with precious and semi-precious stones
3. Yellow Gold
4. Bohemian jewelry still in
5. Mix and match the colors
6. Contrast colors with your outfit
7. Heavy jewelry, bangles and big cuffs
8. Big and bold rings
9. 22K and 24K Gold
10. Ethnic earrings

Fashion trends are not too diverse than the social and political trends. Designers are influenced by the cultural and social issues as much as anyone else or maybe even more. The world has a different view today. After years of neglecting it, people re-discover their own history again. We re-appreciate old values, traditions, and symbols. We look into the past for our roots, something to hold on; we need a time out to reposition ourselves. This is exactly how we feel and what happens in fashion too. We are looking for a new balance in a confused and chaotic world. History is our new model for inspiration. Fashion world is filled with look-alikes.  People are getting sick of looking like everyone else and wearing the same clothes and accessories. Quick trends are wearing out, appreciation of the past and history is not.
The art of several techniques, which we had forgotten in the past, like old handcrafts, handmade items, and hand shaping techniques, are all re-discovered again and very important throughout all fashion trends in 2007. The desire to wear something unique and different or create something special, something exclusive that does not look like a mass-product is getting even stronger.
 

Jewelry runs the style range for fall. The classicist will wear tiny pendants with precious materials and tiny diamonds, long necklaces with fine chains and jewel briolette. The truly bold will prefer the pure shiny gold with colorful stones, and rhinestones combined with silk. Long gold chains combined with unique accents: Vintage elements make it look like you have searched antique shops for days. The jewels of 2007 will have a sense of history and meaning.
 

American culture is a blend of cultures of our grandparents and great grandparents from all over the World. Rediscovering the ancestral roots produce a unique blend of modern and bohemian styles to country life, folk and gypsy styles; we also find inspiration in the first European pioneers emigrating to the new world of America. All these cultural fashion expressions are blended and visible in the fashion trends of 2007.
Exotic cultural expressions of African and MiddleEastern countries with their beautiful jewelry and embroidery and their colorful, ethnic and graphic decorations are the great inspirations of 2007 fashion. But also and in particular their pure, rough natural, handmade looks.Women accept and respect themselves as they are. Body accents are changing, are placing new focuses; a more natural shape is coming up; women are learning to love their curves. They are proud to adorn themselves with colorful gemstones and pure gold.
 
2007 jewelry gets crafty with unexpected combinations of fiber and beads made of precious and semi-precious stones such as turquoise, carnelian, lapis, tiger’s eye, agate, garnet and tourmalines. Soft, round, colorful beads add a feminine touch to the jewelry designs. Combining gold, fiber, and beads and jewelry featuring fabric or ribbon ties are the latest looks. Crocheted or fabric beads paired with ribbons, chains and gemstones add a delicate feminine touch. Gemstones of the year are multicolored tourmaline, rose quartz, jade, amethyst and onyx. This season’s designers are creatively combining different themes and contrasting soft jewels with heavy metals. Everywhere this year you will see shops displaying large chunky over-the-top gold jewelry, long gold chains and cocktail rings with massive settings side by side with more classical looking gold chains dripping with stones. Unique, one-of-a-kind pieces that are worked mainly with semi precious stones and gold. And pure 24 ct gold would give presence to any woman wearing it.
 

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Gold and Silver are the two most commonly used precious metals. Gold was a very popuear substance for use in ancient jewelry for three important reasons:

1. It could be found occuring naturally in a pure of state

2. It was easily worked

3. It did not corrode

Gold in the form of nuggets is found in river beds mixed with quarts, from which it is separated by washing or panning. It also exists as a mineral mixed with silver and copper. Initially these natural alloys were used to make pure gold. The name given to the alloy in which silver occurs with gold in a ratio of 1 to 5 is white gold or electrum. Archaeological evidence suggests that gold was first refined in Anatolia in Turkey. An idea of how old the origins of this process might be, is provided by the Greek word “obryza”. This word derives from Hittite and indicades ” melting.” Pactolos river was a major source of gold in antiquity. This has been confirmed by the excavations at the Lydian capital, Sardis, which have revealed traces of early furnaces beside the Pactolos, used for refining gold.

If gold is found in association with silver, the ore is put into a porous earthenware crucible and lead is added in order to get the two metals separate. The crucible is then heated over a charcoal fire in order to make the ore molten. This process is knows as cupellation. The pure molten gold is made into ingots by pouring it out into stone moulds. Goldsmiths would hammer these ingots into gold sheets, from which they would then make individudal pieces of jewelry. If it was desirable to make thinner sheets of gold, they would be placed between strips of stout leather or ebony wood and then hammered or beaten to the required thickness. Another process used for separating gold and silver from naturally occuring electrum is called cementation. This involves making the electrum into slab-shalped blocks and sprinkling over them a mixture of brick dust ans alt. The blocks and mixture are places, one layer on top of another, inside a coarseware cooking vessel and heated to a temperature of 700-800 C. It is then left in this red-hot state for some time, causing the silver to become attached to the brick dust and the gold to be thus released. The contencts of the cooking vessel are emptied out once this process is complete, and the gold is collected. Another process, knows as empellation, is then used to separate out the silver. Silver, like gold, is a precious metal that is frequently used in jewelry manufacture. It is usually found naturally in an alloy called Galena made up of a mixture of lead and silver. Refining silver from this alloy was first achieved in Anatolia in the 3rd millennium BC. The ore is first crushed, then washed and sifted. The refining of gold also produces quantities of silver and as with gold, refined silver would be made into ingots for further use.

Resource: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ancient Jewelry

The vivid, slightly golden shimmering green of Peridot is the ideal gemstone color to complement a light summertime outfit. This is no surprise – Peridot, after all, is assigned to the summer month of August.
Peridot is an ancient and yet currently very popular gemstone. It is so old that it can be found even in Egyptian jewellery from the early second millennium BC. The stones used in those days came from an occurrence on a little volcanic island in the Red Sea, about 70 km off the Egyptian coast, off Assuan, which was rediscovered only around 1900 and has been completely exploited since. Peridot, however, is also a very modern stone, for only a few years ago Peridot occurrences were discovered in the Kashmir region, and the stones from there show a unique beauty of colour and transparency, so that the image of the stone, which was somewhat dulled over the ages, has received an efficient polishing.

The ancient Romans were already quite fond of the gemstone and coveted the brilliant green sparkle, which does not change either in artificial light. They already named the stone “Evening Emerald”. Peridot is found in Europe in many medieval churches decorating several treasures, like, for example, in the Cologne Cathedral. In the era of Baroque the deep green gemstone experienced another short flourishing, before it became forgotten.

Peridot was called the evening emerald by ancient Romans, because its green color becomes even more vivid under lamplight. The gemstone has been found in Greek and Egyptian ruins and historians think that some of the “emeralds” in Cleopatra’s collection were probably peridot, not emeralds at all.
Peridot  is the gem quality variety of forsterite olivine. The chemical composition of peridot is (Mg, Fe)₂SiO₄. The name of the gemstone is believed to come from either the Arabic word faridat meaning “gem” or the French word peritot meaning “unclear.” Peridot is one of the few gemstones that come in only one color. The depth of green depends on how much iron is contained in the crystal structure, and varies from yellow-green to olive to brownish green. Peridot is also often referred to as “poor man’s emerald”. Olivine is a very abundant mineral, but gem quality peridot is rather rare. Peridot crystals have been collected from iron-nickel meteorites.

Spectacular “Kashmir Peridot”Around the middle of the 1990s, Peridot was the great sensation on the Gemstone Trade Fairs all around the world. The reason: In Pakistan there had been found a sensationally rich occurrence of finest Peridot on a rough mountainside, in about 4,000 m height. The extremely hard climatic conditions only allowed mining to go on through the summer months, and yet the unusually large and fine crystals and rocks were brought down into the valley. These stones were of finer quality than anything else ever seen before, and the occurrence proved so rich that the high demand can be met without problems at present.In order to underline the outstanding quality of such Peridot from Pakistan the stones have been termed “Kashmir-Peridot”, reminding of the fine Kashmir Sapphires. Creative gemstone cutters have in fact succeeded to create fascinating and beautiful unique stones of over 100 karats from some of the larger and fine crystals in a deep and breathtakingly beautiful green.

The depth of green depends on ironThe gemstone is actually known under three names: Peridot, Chrysolith (derived from the Greek word “goldstone”) and Olivin, because Peridot is the gemstone variety of the Olivin mineral. In the gemstone trade it is generally called Peridot, a name derived from the Greek “peridona”, meaning something like “giving plenty”.
Peridot is one of the few gemstones which exist only in one color. Finest traces of iron account for the deep green colour with a slight golden hue. Chemically Peridot is just an iron-magnesium-silicate, and the intensity of colour depends on the amount of iron contained. The color as such can come in any variation from yellow-green and olive to brownish green. Peridot is not especially hard – it only achieves about 6.5 to 7 on the Mohs´ scale – and yet it is easy to care for and quite robust. Very rare treasures indeed, however, are Peridot-Cat’s Eye and Star-Peridot.The most beautiful stones come from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. Peridot as gemstone does also exist in Myanmar, China, the USA, Africa and Australia. Stones from East Burma, today’s Myanmar, show a vivid green with fine silky inclusions. Peridot from the American state of Arizona, where it is quite popular in Native Indian jewellery, often shows a yellowish to golden brown shade.

Uncomplicated – but not for the cutterPeridot is cut according to its crystal structure, usually in classical table and facetted cuts, round, antique, octagonal or oval shaped. Smaller crystals are cut as calibrated stones, larger ones are shaped by gemstone designers to fancy unique specimen stones. The material which is rich in inclusions is worked as cabochons, because this shape will provide the best effect for the fine silky inclusions.Gemstone cutters know that this stone is not easy to process. The rough crystals can be devious and are easy to break. The tensions existing inside the crystal are often quite considerable. When the cutter has removed the most disturbing inclusions, however, Peridot is a jewellery stone which is excellently suited to daily wear, without requiring special care.

Ideal summer stonePeridot is a gain for the green gemstone’ color palette. There is trend to use it not only as individual stone, but also in jewellery series. And since the world of fashion has just discovered a preference for the colour green, the popularity of this deep green gemstone has increased accordingly.
And the rich occurrences in Pakistan and Afghanistan have provided the market with sufficient raw material, so that the individual taste and each budget can be met. But if the “right” stone for you is a large and transparent one, intensely coloured, be prepared: they are quite rare and valuable. Peridot is a gemstone which one should definitely get to know. Its fine pistachio green or olive green ideally complements a light summertime outfit. Resources: wikipedia, about.com, gemstones.org