Gold jewelry for marriage purpose is available in designs and styles that are unique. Crafted and made by expert craftsmen, it is adorned by pearls, diamonds as well as beads. The jewelry is checked for different quality parameters such as glue strength and also finishing. It is a perfect choice for daily wearing and maintaining.
The evidence of existence of gold jewelry can be found in the early period around 3000 BC. There was a use of gold ware of the Egyptian tombs as jewelry. Cretan goldsmiths were the famous jewelers and later Etruscan goldsmiths popularized the technology of gold granulation. The granulation technique involves coating objects with the granules of gold.
Italy is considered as a goldsmith centre. Italian jewelry is popular in the whole world. A huge amount of gold ore is used by Italian goldsmiths. Two thirds of their product is exported. In the early part of 1990s, new centers of goldsmith were opened in many parts of world including Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and also Malaysia. Japans jewelry industry too is far ahead in the consumption of gold.
Gold is soft metal. Due to this, alloys with other metals like silver, zinc, copper and other metals are used in making jewelry. Such metals provide hardness to gold. They change the color of gold and smoothens its surface. The trade name is white gold. White gold alloy can be obtained by the addition to gold of metals such as copper, silver and palladium or nickel. This results in a proper tint that is metallic silver one which has a yellow glow. When jewelry has a higher percentage of gold, allergy risk to the skin of the wearer is reduced.
Currently, there is a fashion of colored gold. This has resulted in production of gold jewelry products which are white, dark violet, blue, yellow, red and pink in color. Due to the changing fashion and customers demand, there are changes in the jewelry products which may adopt modern or avant-garde forms. The two colored jewelry which is fashionable at present is a combination of shining gold along with mat metals such as silver, platinum and also white gold.
New jewelry designers are expected and demanded by people and the jewelry designers create art pieces that differ from the traditional styles in order to meet the requirements of people. When deciding to buy gold jewelry, one must carefully consider the gold assay. Gold which has richer assays is less durable. Gold with worse assays is ugly in color and can cause allergic reactions.