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Jewellery, spelled jewelry in American English, consists of ornamental devices worn by persons, typically made with gems and precious metals. Costume jewellery is made from less valuable materials; however, jewelry can and has been made out of almost every kind of material. Examples include bracelets, necklaces, rings and earrings, as well as items like hair ornaments or body piercing jewelry. The word is derived from the word jewel, which was Anglicized from the Old French jouel in around the 13th century, tracing back to the Latin word jocale, meaning plaything. This page explains jewelry's forms, its value and symbolism, and its manufacture.
Jewellery (spelled jewelry in American English) consists of ornamental devices worn by persons, typically made with gems and precious metals. Costume jewellery is made from less valuable materials. However, jewly can and has been made out of almost every kind of material.
Examples include bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings, as well as items like hair ornaments or body piercing jewelry.
The word is derived from the word 'jewel', which was Anglicized from the Old French 'jouel' in around the 13th century. Further tracing leads back to the Latin word 'jocale', meaning plaything.
Jewelry, particularly when made with precious materials, is generally considered valuable and desirable. Some cultures have a practice of keeping large amounts of wealth stored in the form of jewelry. Jewelry can also be symbolic, as in the case of Christians wearing a crucifix in the form of jewellery, or, as is the case in many Western cultures, married people wearing a wedding ring.
Jewelry in various forms has been made and worn by both sexes in almost every (if not every) human culture, on every inhabited continent. Personal adornment seems to be a basic human tendency.
In rare cases jewelry is also used for (at least some) modesty, e.g. to cover the nipples.
Jablonec in the northern Bohemia region of the Czech Republic manufactures a large amount of jewellery for the world.
Jewelry by Design Jewelry by Metals Jewelry by Stones
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Jewelry is organised in trade and in wearing by where it sits on the body: bracelets for the wrist, necklaces for the neck, rings for the fingers, earrings for the ears, with hair ornaments and body piercing jewelry completing the standard list. The same trade also sorts jewelry by design, by metals and by stones, because the material decides both value and care: precious metals such as gold and silver with gems at the top of the scale, and costume jewellery in base metals, glass and other materials made to give the effect at a fraction of the cost. Manufacture is global, and has historic centres — Jablonec in the northern Bohemia region of the Czech Republic, for example, manufactures a large amount of jewellery for the world.
The deeper constant is that jewelry in various forms has been made and worn by both sexes in almost every human culture, on every inhabited continent: personal adornment seems to be a basic human tendency. That universality is why a clothing glossary needs the term at its full width. A wedding ring is at once an ornament, a store of value in precious metal, and a symbol whose meaning every onlooker reads; a crucifix pendant is jewelry and a statement of faith; a pair of costume earrings is jewelry with neither precious material nor symbol, worn for appearance alone. The definition covers all three because it rests on the wearing — ornamental devices worn by persons — and lets material, value and meaning vary, as they have in every culture that has made it.
Jewellery, spelled jewelry in American English, consists of ornamental devices worn by persons, typically made with gems and precious metals. Examples include bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings, as well as hair ornaments and body piercing jewelry.
Costume jewellery is made from less valuable materials than jewelry made with gems and precious metals. Jewelry can and has been made out of almost every kind of material.
Jewelry, particularly when made with precious materials, is generally considered valuable and desirable, and some cultures have a practice of keeping large amounts of wealth stored in the form of jewelry. Jewelry can also be symbolic, as in Christians wearing a crucifix in the form of jewellery, or married people wearing a wedding ring in many Western cultures.