Creating a handmade bracelet with Swarovski crystals and freshwater pearls is an exhilarating experience when designing with baroque pearls that have a very unique color of coral pink- they’re fabulous! To make the handmade bracelet even more colorful we added lots of Swarovski crystals in various shapes and colors, and most are accented with sterling silver beads.
If you’re a Girlie Girl who loves uniqueness in her custom handcrafted jewelry, then wait until you receive this handmade bracelet with Swarovski crystals. You’ll be so impressed you’ll want to order another bracelet for a friend! It would be better than sharing, right?
When Daniel Swarovski first brought a sparkle to crystal, over a hundred years ago, he could never have imagined what a development
he was setting in motion. With fantasy, intuition and technical finesse, he and his ancestors have managed to expose all the facets
hidden within this fascinating material.
Swarovski (Austrian) Crystal is considered by most people to be the finest quality, full-lead crystal made today. It contains a
minimum of 32% PbO, making the crystal optically very pure. The crystal is then faceted with tremendous precision, creating beautiful
prisms. Brilliant colors and/or coatings are added to these crystals to create beads of dazzling beauty and in a tremendous array
of sizes and shapes. Swarovski Crystal is unmatched in quality. That’s why Girlie Girl Jewelry Studio only uses Swarovski crystals
in our handmade necklaces, handcrafted bracelets, and beaded crystal earrings.
In order to create a crystal that allows light to refract in a rainbow spectrum, Swarovski coats some of its crystals with special
metallic chemical coatings. Aurora Borealis, or "AB", is one of the most popular coatings, and gives the surface a rainbow oil slick
appearance.
In 1892, Daniel Swarovski registered a patent for his machine that cut crystal on an industrial scale with greater speed and precision
than the manual process. This was the start of one of the most sought after crystal production centers in art history. Daniel Swarovski
together with his brother-in-law Franz Weis and with Armand Kosmann founded the company in 1895.
Swarovski's flawless, brilliant cut jewelry stones caused great excitement and were coveted everywhere. They sold incredibly well to
the Parisian fashion houses and jewelers. For this reason, Swarovski concentrated initially on the production of jewelry stones.
However, further product ranges were soon added, which today combine to make a harmonious concern with many facets of fashion.
Pearls symbolize honesty, wisdom, purity, innocence, integrity and serenity. Pearls can stimulate your femininity; they lift
your spirits and make you feel beautiful. Pearls foster motherly love and ensure good health and longevity. With their humble beginnings
as a grain of sand and slowly transformed over time into an object of value and beauty, they help us get in touch with the simple things
in life.
Physically, pearls aid with the heart, digestion and stomach, and with the immune system.
Before the beginning of the 20th Century, pearl hunting was the most common way of harvesting pearls. Divers manually pulled oysters
from ocean floors and river bottoms and checked them individually for pearls. Not all natural oysters produce pearls, however.
In fact, in a haul of three tons, only three or four oysters will produce perfect pearls.
Now, however, almost all pearls used for jewelry are cultured by planting a core or nucleus into pearl oysters. The pearls are
usually harvested three years after the planting, but it can take up to as long as six years before a pearl is produced.
Pearls are formed inside the shell of certain bivalve mollusks. As a response to an irritating object inside its shell, the mollusk
will deposit layers of calcium carbonate and conchiolin which forms nacre, or as most of us know it, mother-of-pearl.
The unique luster of pearls depends upon the reflection and refraction of light from the translucent layers and is finer in
proportion as the layers become thinner and more numerous. The iridescence that some pearls display is caused by the overlapping
of successive layers, which breaks up light falling on the surface.
The value of the pearls in jewelry is determined by a combination of the luster, color, size, lack of surface flaw and symmetry
that are appropriate for the type of pearl under consideration. Among those attributes, luster is the most important differentiator
of pearl quality according to jewelers. All factors being equal, however, the larger the pearl the more valuable it is. Pearls come
in eight basic shapes: round, semi-round, button, drop, pear, oval, baroque, and ringed. Large, perfectly round pearls are
rare and highly valued. (Wikipedia 2006)
Metaphysical and healing lore information is for inspirational and entertainment purposes only. Please see a healthcare professional for
help with any ailments you are experiencing.
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