Wholesale Silver - Italian Jewelry, Classical and Unusual Accessories

Executive Summary about Italian Jewelry By Henry A. Callaway

Today, silver jewelry from Italy is getting famous all over the world. Only in Italy that you can see the most beautiful designs of silver jewelry. They have the obsession and history in making silver accessories. Italian found a unique way of making jewelries to show ones social standing and community association. Since then they have been the number one in making wholesale silver jewelry.

Normally, jewelry from Italy is gold based. Even famous jewelry designers are now using sterling silver for their inventive designs. Every year, Italian jewelry makers use up to five hundred tons of gold and about 1,400 tons of sterling silver purely. Almost fifty thousand of people are now working for the Italian silver working industry. The high quality of silver became available in the East and at the same time there had been an enormous demand for silver jewelry from the West. That is why Italy became the center of the wholesale silver industry in Europe. It is considered today the wholesale silver jewelry in Italy as the foundation of stone of the market.

Today, Italian wholesale sterling silver development are now over sizing in different shapes, with pointed and in thick shapes at the same time having a soft curves and swoops while gold jewelry are still typically delicately-shaped. Silver jewelry designs are being noticed all over the world and not only in Italy alone.

So if you are looking for classical pieces, unusual jewelry or funky modern accessories, why not try the Italian silver jewelry. You can see astonishing wholesale silver jewelry all over Italy. Even the famous shops in Paris and New York are now marketing silver jewelries made in Italy.

Italian Cameo Jewelry

Executive Summary about Italian Jewelry By Sylviane Nuccio

Cameos have come into the scene very early in mankind civilization. The first documented cameo was traced back to 332 B.C. Today the cameo is still a precious piece of jewelry that is enjoyed by cameo lovers and collectors. Cameos can also be the perfect gift that will last for generations after generations. Furthermore, Italian cameo jewelry can also be a great investment.

Cameos may seem expensive at first, but if you knew a little more about what is involved in the creation of those beautiful little pieces of art, the price might not seem as high to you anymore.

Cameos have to be hand-picked in the warm waters of the ocean off the shores of the Caribbean, Bahamas, Central America and West Africa. They are then shipped to a small town of Italy named Torre del Greco which is literally the world's center of the shell cameo. This Italian town is where the shell cameos will take shaped from A-Z.

The different steps in the creation of an Italian shell cameo are: The first layer removal, the outlining and cutting of about three oval shapes per shell, the cutting, the sanding, the cameo shape outlining in pencil, the engraving and the polishing. After the cameo itself is finished, the artist creates a frame to fit the cameo perfectly. Italian Cameos are one of the best investments you can make. Collectors are ready to pay a high price for an original Italian antique cameo piece of jewelry.