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Jewellery
Jewellery stands for items of personal beautification, such as necklaces, earrings, rings, brooches, and bracelets. Jewellery may be made from many materials, such as gemstones, pearls, diamonds, precious metals or shells, besides other materials, depending on cultural difference Jewellery may be appreciated because of geometric or other patterns, or meaningful symbols.
Designer Items such as belts, mobile phones and handbags are considered to be accessories rather than jewellery.
The word jewellery is derived from the word jewel, which was anglicised from the Old French "joule" circa the 13th century. Further tracing leads back to the Latin word "jocale", meaning plaything. Jewellery is one of the oldest forms of body beautification; recently found 100,000 year-old beads made from Nassarius shells, are thought to be the oldest known jewellery.
Jewellery is sometimes seen as wealth storage or functionally as holding a item of clothing or hair together. It has from very early times also been regarded as a form of personal beautification. The first pieces of jewellery were made from natural materials, such as bone, animal teeth, shell, wood and carved stone. More exotic jewellery was probably made for wealthy people or as indications of social status. In some cases people were buried with their jewellery.
Jewellery has been made to decorate nearly every body part, from hairpins to toe rings and many more types of jewellery. While high-quality jewellery is made with gemstones and precious metals, such as silver or gold, there is also a growing demand for talent jewellery where design and creativity is prized above material value. This is why, less costly costume jewellery, made from lower value materials and mass-produced. Other variations include wire sculpture jewellery, using anything from base metal wire with rock tumbled stone to precious metals and precious gemstones.
Jewellery Forms and functions
Most cultures have at some point in time made a practice of keeping a quantity of wealth stored in the form of Jewellery. Many cultures have wedding dowries in the form of jewellery, or create jewellery as a means to store or display wealth. Alternatively, jewellery has been used as a currency or traded for other goods. Much like today’s pawn shops, many items of jewellery, such as brooches and buckles originated as purely functional items, but evolved into decorative items as their functional requirement was replaced with buttons and zips.
