| Thousands of years ago, Egyptian Pharaohs | | | | other basic bracelet styles that incorporate |
| adorned themselves with charm jewellery | | | | charms. |
| encrusted with precious gems to ward off evil | | | | Italian charm bracelets are made of flat charm |
| spirits. Jewish scholars hid Jewish laws from the | | | | links that form stretchy bracelets. Each charm is |
| Romans on tiny parchments concealed in golden | | | | enclosed in a standard sized rectangular link |
| amulets worn close to their hearts on necklaces. | | | | allowing for endless personalization options. |
| Renaissance knights were the first to "wear their | | | | Approximately 17 such links will snap together to |
| hearts on their sleeves" when they entered | | | | form a medium sized bracelet while 19 links will |
| tournaments or battles wearing their lady's | | | | make up a typical large sized bracelet. |
| "favors" tied around their arms. These good luck | | | | The latest bracelet style is built around a single |
| charms were bits of cloth often adorned with | | | | narrow band of silver or gold. Charm beads of |
| small bits of embroidery and jewels sewn by their | | | | varying shapes and sizes. The beads spin freely |
| ladies and meant to symbolize the strength of | | | | on the band allowing for more detailed 3D designs. |
| love in warding off evil and injury. | | | | Adding charms and distributing them evenly |
| Queen Victoria was the first to wear dangling | | | | around the bracelet is easy because each charm |
| charm jewellery purely as a fashion accessory in | | | | bead includes not a smooth hole through its |
| the early 20th century. Intricately details bits of | | | | center, but a threaded hole. The ends of the |
| silver and gold depicting life milestones like the | | | | bracelet and clear spacers positioned at one third |
| birth of children were strung beside those | | | | intervals around the bracelet are also threaded so |
| depicting religions, favorite hobbies, pets or even | | | | beads must be twisted and screwed over them |
| flowers | | | | to be added or removed. |
| Today, charm jewellery is everywhere. Little bits | | | | This bead type charm system is also proving |
| of silver, gold or other metal sometimes adorned | | | | popular in creating necklaces of varying lengths. |
| with gemstones are fashioned into visual symbols | | | | The band that holds the charms in this case can |
| of what a woman likes, what she knows, even | | | | either be fixed or flexible and comes in different |
| how many children she may have. They're | | | | lengths. Because of the spacing system, |
| fashioned into necklaces, earrings and rings as well | | | | necklaces, like bracelets, can include just a few |
| as the more traditional wrist and ankle bracelets. | | | | charms or be completely covered in them. |
| But even the variety of bracelets themselves | | | | Charm jewellery's popularity has endured through |
| have exploded in the 21st century as charms are | | | | the ages because of this flexibility. It allows a |
| once again popular. | | | | woman to clearly express herself through both |
| There are still thousands of traditional charms that | | | | her choice of charms, where she chooses to |
| dangle freely and are attached by links to gold or | | | | wear them and how she chooses to wear them. |
| silver link bracelets. However, there are now two | | | | |