Tuesday, 10 February 2009

What is the hotest question about jewelry

1.What is the root of jewelry?

Jewelry is a personal ornament, such as necklaces, rings, or bracelets, which are made from sterling silver,gold, precious metals or other materials.

The word "jewelry" is derived from the word "jewel", which was anglicised from the Old French "jouel" about the 13th century. In addition, It means plaything if we further trace back to the Latin word "jocale". According to historical records, the first pieces of jewelry were made from natural materials, such as bone, animal teeth, shell, wood and carved stone. Recently, Jewelry has been made to adorn nearly every body part, from hairpins to toe rings and many more types of jewelry. While high-quality jewelry is made with silver, gold , or other precious metals and diamonds.

2.What is the main use of jewelry?

During earlier times jewelry was created for practical uses such as wealth storage and pinning clothes together, in recent times it has been used almost exclusively for decoration. In addition,Jewelry was often made for people of high importance to show their status , and in many cases, they were buried with it.

3.What is the people's chief concern of jewelry?

A large amount of people concern about the design and creativity of jewelry, also, some people will take the materials of the jewelry into consideration, because the jewelry they wore has something to do with their status.

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