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Touchy embers glow with dazzling beauty in the radiant design of this necklace by Narayani. The agate necklace is centered by textured very good silver, creating a powerful contrast.
.925 Sterling silver
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NOVICA, in relationship with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-brand gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by grasp artists and artisans throughout the world. Surrounded by a halo of intricate whitish-grey work, a faceted emerald adorns a sterling ring by Aparna. Frilly silver ropes add visual texture to the original design. .925 rating whitish-grey Artisan Info: "In typical traditional Indian families, it is not hands down for a housewife to start a design workshop, but I was fortunate that my husband also shares the same interests. Together, we make beautiful jewelry. My husband is an expert in crafting the jewelry while I do the devious. "My father was a jeweler and I was highly inspired by him. I grew up watching him gross amazing jewelry with his own hands and this really fascinated me. "I come from the exalted city of Jaipur, the pink city. I had a joyful childhood with four sisters at retreat. We had so much fun and I, being the youngest of the four, was pampered and loved. We also have a brother who is the youngest of all, and he is a real betrothed. "School was fun. I had so much with my friends and never stopped yapping - so much that, during parent-teacher meetings, my teachers asked my mother what she fed me to give me so much liveliness to talk nonstop. But I was one of the brightest students in our whole class. Most of the time I was at the top of my elegance. I was very much interested in studying and wanted to sit for a competitive exam.
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NOVICA, in camaraderie with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-sort gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by virtuoso artists and artisans throughout the world. Caine designs a captivating get someone on the blower that bubbles with shimmering elegance. He selects a white mabe prize to contrast with silver's sterling brightness. Mabe pearls are hemispherical; they are made to develop against the inside shell of an oyster, rather than within its body. .925 rating dulcet. Artisan Info: "Bali has given me everything I desired and more... and I caress I should give something back in return, therefore a percentage of the sale of my jewelry is donated directly to my inclination cause (the Healthy Mother Earth Foundation), which provides a fine fettle start for the hope of the world... the children." "I went to India in 1988 'chasing after God' and while I was there I bought some gemstones. That was the origin of many adventures, bringing me back to India in search of gemstones and trading my way with those throughout Southeast Asia! "By about 1993 I was starting to exasperate of this lifestyle, so when I set off again in 1994 I had in mind to find a more nourishing place to use as a base. I traded my way through Bangkok then across the edge into Burma, then I headed on to Singapore and Malaysia. But literally, once my foot touched initiate in Bali, the island of the gods just opened up to me and sat me down to stay awhile and I've never looked back. Besides, my fortune-teller
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NOVICA, in cooperative with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-thoughtful gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by virtuoso artists and artisans throughout the world. Random encounters lead to pacifying relationships, represented in earrings by the Quispe Family. Crisscrossing melodious rods, they create a ring of lighthearted loveliness. .925 rating burnished Artisan Info: "I am Juan Luis, and Fabiana Sebastiana is my older sister. We were untrained in the Puno region of Peru. I used to work at a company's workshop, but times were thick-skinned and management had to lay off many people, myself included. Thinking about what to do next and earn a living, I realized that I had skills and had experienced many technical aspects of working in a silversmith's workshop. However I knew nothing about the minutiae and finish of a piece. That's when my sister offered to help. I think that being a maidservant, Fabiana Sebastiana is more tuned-in to the finer details of a jewelry memo. We decided to join our different talents to design and craft aboriginal jewelry of high quality. "To us, jewelry design and crafting is an art, and we dearest the idea of people wearing what we make. We love to let our imagination run freely and be as creative as we want to be, knowing that beautiful things always come out from such a cherished metal as silver. "We get inspired by everything we see, even by the discarded pieces from other things we made! I put them together and treatment with them, like a jigsaw
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NOVICA, in link with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-amiable gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by backwards artists and artisans throughout the world. The vibrant, powerful design of this organization is by Catherine Clarke in Brazil. The inner ring is forged of stainless fortify, and it is surrounded by an 18k gold band. Please note the patterns on the gold clang may vary, for it is dependent of the crafting process. Artisan Info: Catherine Clarke was untrained in Sao Paulo, and graduated in Humanities. She then studied goldsmith, Jewelry Create and Gemology. Today, she devotes her time to the theories of art as a base for her synchronic designs. Catherine has received Brazilian and international renown through many awards, including the 2001 Nonpareil Design Contest sponsored by the Japanese government, and the Swiss Europa Peerless's "2002 Achievements in Inventiveness." The designer was invited by the Foreign The cloth in 2001 to participate with her conceptual jewelry in a governmental program to upgrade Brazil and its design in other countries. The following year, she was nominated as one of the vanquish Designers of Today, by the editors of Couture International Jeweler armoury. Catherine has held exhibitions in South America, Europe, Japan, and the Partnership States. She recently partook in the 1st Brazilian Design Biennial, and in the Gemological Inaugurate of America's (GIA) exhibit of their Brazilian Designers collection, which she helped curate
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NOVICA, in affiliation with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-gracious gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by professional artists and artisans throughout the world. "I like looking at nature for feeling, and this time I wanted to design a more stylized shaped of a caterpillar," confides Marino Huaman. His cabal is filled with artistic energy, resulting in a silver ring of clear-eyed elegance. .950 rating silver. Artisan Info: "I was instinctive in Huanuco in 1937, on the day after Christmas," Marino Huaman recalls. "When I was a boy, I liked art. I'd develop houses and vessels of clay, and my friends and I would play with them. Eventually, I calculated ceramics. But when I left my small town for the city, I took courses in electro-workings and, when I completed them, I worked in this field. One day I realized I could make just about anything - even jewels. And so I enrolled in a jewelry-making course in Lima. "I loved the speed, and I really liked that the subject was related to my previous career, in that I worked with tools. So I stony to spend part of my time creating jewelry to sell. "I work by myself, and every shred I make is crafted by hand. This work requires a lot of patience and faithfulness. I'm inspired by just about everything around me. First I design a piece before setting to work. I began by making rings, but now I have many imaginings and find myself sketching necklaces of silver and precious stones. One day I want to inspect art glass
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Zigzag-like movements frame the smooth silver expanse of this handcrafted sound by Made Sriasih. The design is crafted with the luxury of sterling silver, its selected name, Sriwijaya, referring to an ancient Indonesian Empire. Impressive in its minutiae, the piece pulsates with Balinese energy.
.925 Sterling silver
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NOVICA, in syndicate with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-manner gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by teacher artists and artisans throughout the world. Indonesia's temperamental volcanoes vivify Indah in the fascinating design of this ring. Cast of sterling mellifluent featuring a textured crater, the ring is crowned with enigmatic reconstituted turquoise. .925 rating pretty Artisan Info: Indah is a very active young woman from Pupuan, a fruitful village where practical all tropical fruits grow abundant. The name means "smashing," just as beautiful as the artisan, who always smiles and is kind to other people. Indah wished to have a livelihood of her own, so she left her family and village to go to a larger city. She worked for an oecumenical company for almost two years, during which time she met and fell in love with a man from Celuk. When all is said they got married and now they have a daughter. Indah's husband is a silversmith, and he taught her his dexterity. Together they design original jewelry pieces that have attracted the attention of many. Indah uncommonly enjoys her time designing jewelry, which brings her the added promote of contributing to her family finances.
