Jewellery

Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a Western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example. For many centuries, metals such as gold and silver, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery. Other materials such as glass, shells, or wood may also be used.

Earrings are jewelry that can be worn on one's ears. Earrings are commonly worn in a piercing in the earlobe or another external part of the ear, or by some other means, such as stickers or clip-ons. Earrings have been worn across multiple civilizations and historic periods, often carrying a cultural significance.

thumb|upright=1.25|Examining a pink sapphire under a gemmological microscope Gemology or gemmology is the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstone materials. It is a specific interdisciplinary branch of mineralogy. Some jewelers (and many non-jewelers) are academically trained gemologists and are qualified to identify and evaluate gems.

small tablet of dark stone used for assaying precious metal alloys

art of carving and engraving of stones or gems

thumb|right|300px|Diptych with Nativity and Adoration, silver and niello, [[gilt-bronze frame, Paris, , The Cloisters]] thumb|Byzantine gold ring with niello inscription: "Lord help Leontius, Patrician and Count of imperial Obsikion guarded by God", Niello is a black mixture, usually of sulphur, copper, silver, and lead, used as an inlay on engraved or etched metal, especially silver. It is added as a powder or paste, then fired until it melts or at least softens, and flows or is pushed into engraved lines in the metal. It hardens and blackens when cool, and the niello on the flat surface is

thumb|Indian women wearing Reshmi bangles A bangle is a traditionally rigid bracelet which is usually made of metal, wood, glass or plastic. These ornaments are worn mostly by women in the India, Southeastern Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and Africa. It is common to see a bride wearing glass bangles at weddings in India. Bangles may also be worn by young girls, and bangles made of gold or silver are preferred for toddlers. Some men and women wear a single bangle on the arm or wrist called kada or kara.

alloy of silver containing 92.5% by mass of silver and 7.5% by mass of other metals, usually copper

piece of jewellery incorporated into clothing, or worn by itself on the body (typically on a necklace)

art of the Scythians

technique for decorating jewelry

process of coating an object with a thin adherent layer of gold

type of christian relic

International trade association for the gold industry

thumb|right|300px|Bling-bling jewelry

right|300px|thumb|Sapphire parure of Queen Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily|Maria Amélie of France

cista

shop which sells jewelry

type of jewelry belonging to the Turkmen people

bracelet that straps a watch to the wrist

art of designing and creating jewelry

a type of cross found in the Agadez region

thumb|200px|A minaudière from 1938 A minaudière, or vanity case, is a women's fashion accessory, generally considered a jewellery piece, intended to substitute for an evening bag. A case with compartments, it allows storage for several items in a small space, such as a makeup compact, lipstick, watch, reading glasses, or keys.

optical instrument

traditional jewellery of Amazigh ( berber ) peoples in north-western Africa

thumb|Ecclesiastical treasury in Vienna's Hofburg Palace thumb|The Green Vault in [[Dresden Castle (as at 1904)]] Schatzkammer, a German word which means "treasury" or "treasure chamber", is a term sometimes used in English for the collection of treasures, especially objets d’art in precious metals and jewels, of a ruler or other collector which are kept in a secure room and often found in the basement of a palace or castle. It also often included the wider types of object typical of the Renaissance cabinet of curiosities. A very small but evocative Renaissance room in a tower at Lacock Abbey

ornamental jewellery worn around the upper arm

longish accessory used to hold a person's hair in place in a hair bun or similar hairstyle

Glyptology is the study of engraved gems, or of engravings on gems.

Jewellery collection owned and worn by Princess Diana

thumb|Off-white cotton sheer ground with an embroidered design of a stylized floral spray: The vines are executed in gold foil strips, the small flowers in gilt sequins, and the leaves in beetle elytra. thumb|Sternocera aequisignata แมลงทับ, a beetle used in Thailand for beetlewing decoration thumb|Tamamushi Shrine, [[Horyu-ji, Nara Prefecture, Japan, Asuka Period, decorated with lacquer and oil painting on wood, gilt bronze plaques, and the iridescent wings of jewel beetle (Tamamushi)]] Beetlewing, or beetlewing art, is an ancient craft technique using iridescent beetle wings practiced tradi

thumb|Frisian earizers from the period 1830–1870, . The Oorijzer (, ) is part of the Dutch folk costume for women, especially in the northern provinces of the Netherlands and in the province of Zeeland. It was originally part of the everyday attire of the Dutch before its adoption in the regional costumes.