Silver Jewellery
iMake Fine Silver Leaf Pendant
Pendant made by iMake with PMC and hung on a sterling silver 1mm ball chain.
Silver Jewellery Beats Gold Ornaments
Who would have imagined that silver jewellery would outrun gold ornaments? Silver was seen as nothing more that a poor substitute for gold jewellery and this is one of the reasons why the metal was usually used to make utensils as cutlery as opposed to jewellery items. But things have changed drastically now and designers have decided to turn their attention towards silver. Be it wedding rings, engagement ring or even everyday ornaments, silver seems to be the new favourite.
One does wonder as to what has caused this shift from gold to silver. Apparently silver seems to have several advantages and now with jewellery designers creating fine jewellery using silver, the consumer has no dearth of great designs to choose from. These aspects have combined to offer the buyer a highly lucrative deal in the shape of silver jewellery. Below is a list of some of the advantages of silver over gold –
• Sturdy- Silver jewellery is known to be very sturdy as opposed to gold, which is a softer metal.
Most of us who pay for gold will choose ornaments that have at least 18 karat gold in it and many will even opt for the 22 karat gold percentage. As the purity of gold increases, its softness increases also. Gold ornaments are therefore much more likely to loose their shape or break as opposed to silver, which is a much stronger metal even in its purest form. This quality of silver is what has attracted jewellers to craft wedding rings and engagement ring from this metal. The ring can be worn for years without bothering about loosing its shape.
• Cheaper- Another advantage that silver has over gold is the fact that the former is much cheaper. In fact silver prices are almost half of that of gold.
With a cheaper metal, if a consumer is able to enjoy higher durability, the buyer is most likely to tilt towards the cheaper metal rather than pay for gold. While silver was always cheaper that gold, jewellery designers were not creating fine ornaments with this metal. However, now since silver has become the new pet metal for jewellery designers, consumers are having a ball with the large variety that they get to choose from and all the while paying much lesser for it.
• Easy to stud – Silver is a metal that is very sturdy when it comes to studding gems in it. In fact even jewellers making an engagement ring or wedding rings, prefer to embed the diamond in silver, since the hold of silver is much more than gold and therefore the chances of the gem falling off are much lesser. Even gems like emerald, rubies, sapphire, etc are much easier to stud in silver as opposed to gold and much more likely to stay fitted in the ornament for a longer duration.
Silver jewellery is indeed a lot more advantageous that gold ornaments are and this is the main reason why the love for such jewellery is growing everyday. If the jewellery designers continue to churn up brilliant silver ornament pieces, soon the buyer will focus on the silver section when looking for cosmetic appeal and gold will remain as nothing more than an investment. Even today one can see that silver has beaten gold in terms of utility since more and more buyers are crowding to buy from the silver section of a jewellery store, while the gold section is shrinking rather rapidly.
Silver Jewellery question by Nate: What’s the best thing to use for cleaning silver jewellery?
Do you need to buy a special cleaner or is there any household stuff you can use to do the job?
Silver Jewellery best answer:
Answer by squirt89
at walmart they have a silver clearner that i bought, its in like a pink container and it worked pretty well and it was cheap.