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Jewelry is a personal ornament, such as a necklace, ring or bracelet, made from gemstones, precious metals or other materials. Although during earlier times jewelry was created for practical uses such as wealth, storage and pinning clothes together, in recent times it has been used almost exclusively for decoration. The first pieces of jewelry were made from natural materials, such as bone, animal teeth, shell, wood and carved stone.

India is an unrivalled center for cut and polished Gem beads and Gem Jewelry - the ultimate place to go for Silver jewelry and Fashion jewelry. Jewellery was often made for people of high importance to show their status and, in many cases, they were buried with it.

Jewelry has been made to adorn nearly every body part, from hairpins to toe rings and many more types of jewelry. While high-quality is made with gemstones and precious metals, there is also a growing demand for Art jewelry where design and creativity is prized above material value. New variations include wire sculpture jewelry, using anything from base metal wire with rock tumbled stone to precious metals and precious gemstones.

Elegant Precious Indian Jewelry, known as Kundan Meena Jewelry, is another high precision art of Jaipur jewelry in which gemstones are set into molten gold with extreme finesse. Gold and 92.5 % Studded Silver Jewelry from India is famous everywhere, more particularly Jaipur is for Silver jewelry. The sterling silver standard has a minimum millesimal fineness of 925. Sterling is an alloy of silver containing 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% other metals, usually copper. Fine silver (99.9% pure) is generally too soft for producing large functional objects, therefore, the silver is usually alloyed with copper to give it strength, while at the same time preserving the ductility and beauty of the precious metal.