Jewelry insurance can help you replace a lost item or even cover repairs. While homeowners insurance and renters insurance usually cover valuables, even when outside of the home, most have a limit ...

Kris Patzlaff — one of the featured artists this month at the Arcata Artisans cooperative gallery — has been making jewelry since childhood. “Growing up, from around 10 years of age, the family made a ...

Some of the stones on our list ... favored by collectors and not often used to make jewelry. Sunstone is a type of feldspar, ...

A handful of esteemed designers have recently been embracing jet, incorporating the featherlight gemstone into fine jewelry ...

Historical records in ancient Egypt and India tell stories of communities using “tumbling” systems to polish rocks used for jewelry making, decoration, and more — each of which remains ...

And lapis lazuli—a stone that has been used in art, jewelry, and ancient cultures as far back as 7,500 B.C.E.—is perhaps the ...

In the large family of accessories jewelry has a place of choice Like the icing on the cake of a master pastry chef rings bracelets necklaces and earrings add the ...

Creating diamonds is now easier than ever as the machine needed to produce lab-grown stones is sold at Alibaba for $200,000.

Rodriguez has heard about how diamonds fuel distant conflicts, about the miserable conditions of the miners who wrest the stones ... use of natural resources. “The fact that CAR diamonds are ...

Stone craft is the creation of structures, sculptures and objets d’ art – using stone as the primary material. The blend of modern interior design and traditional stone crafts is a quirky way ...

Like a hafted maul, the hand maul had to be made from a type of stone that could be used as a hammer without breaking easily. Can you see how two of these mauls in Figure 11 were broken? Do you think ...

Adding to the fun element in the Lightbox Jewelry line will be ... drive up the prices for its natural stones. It’s a very smart and bold move that would make Cecil Rhodes proud.