Diamonds
are purportedly a woman’s best friend. However, they are limited when it comes
to enhancing her looks. They can only sparkle and coruscate. The true beauty
comes from ornaments hand-crafted with care into exotically beautiful designs
in necklaces of silver that set off an evening gown, exquisitely filigreed
silver earrings that bring out the delicacy of the ear and highlight the hair
or silver bracelets to lend an enchanting touch to the wrists.
Silver has
one essential quality that even gold lacks. It can be worked very fine into
paper thin leaves, and it can be drawn into fine wires. It can be made into
tiny beads or just about any shape using machines or by hand. Jewellery
designers with the creative imagination prefer to use silver to make women silver jewellery because of this essential quality of high malleability and
ductility. Designers have used thin leaves of silver and fine wires and their
imagination has transformed these into exquisitely delicate yet highly artistic
jewellery that is simply not possible with other metals. If a woman desires to
look different, she can. She can pick jewellery that acts as an extension of
her personality—delicate, exquisite and complicated as well as unique.
From the
woman’s perspective, silver is so much lower in cost than gold so she can order
much larger chunks or varieties of silver jewellery that are really
noticeable, not tiny pieces that are overwhelmed by clothing. Because larger
looking pieces can be fashioned from only a small quantity of silver at a lower
cost, it is possible to make jewellery that really stands out and confers a
distinctive look to the wearer. Jewellery defines women and silver does it
best.
Think of a
bracelet made by hand using thin wires twisted or brained into delightful
patterns interspersed with gems and bonded to a substrate. The woman who wears
it makes a style statement. A delicate pattern may indicate a sensitive woman
and a bold pattern may be the choice of an outgoing personality. Silver becomes
an extension of her personality. What she cannot speak, silver emotes in not so
many words.
The only
care one must exercise, as in the selection of friends, is to pick handmade jewellery
made in Britain by British artists to suit the psyche of the British woman of
today. That done, each purchase of handmade silver ornaments, is like gaining
new friends who stand by her…always!
