Craftsmen Jewellers
July 1st 2007 18:10
The vocation of a craftsman jeweller working out of his own shop is now almost extinct. Most people who make jewellery tend to work for manufacturing jewellers who produce wedding rings
, engagement rings and the like in large quantities. The role of the independent artist in this business is vanishing.
Curiously there are perhaps now more choices in jewellery than ever. Where once you might have been limited to the kind of range a certain craftsman might produce, nowadays you can go to a jewellers and find a huge range – almost too much to cope with.
Places like Danforth Diamond have a very large range, and it’s available on the Net. While it beats going into a jewellers and trying to make a decision on the spot, it nevertheless doesn’t decrease the problems. Trying to agree on things like price, design, number of stones, carats in the gold and so forth can be time-consuming. (I’m glad I don’t have to get married again!)
Curiously there are perhaps now more choices in jewellery than ever. Where once you might have been limited to the kind of range a certain craftsman might produce, nowadays you can go to a jewellers and find a huge range – almost too much to cope with.
Places like Danforth Diamond have a very large range, and it’s available on the Net. While it beats going into a jewellers and trying to make a decision on the spot, it nevertheless doesn’t decrease the problems. Trying to agree on things like price, design, number of stones, carats in the gold and so forth can be time-consuming. (I’m glad I don’t have to get married again!)
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