Jewelry Throughout Time

Throughout time, man has sought to decoratebracelets worn by a person who has a medical
the human body and this has manifested as bodycondition or requires vital medication have helped
painting, tattoos, piercing and for those a littlemedical personnel decide on appropriate treatment
squeamish or less brave, decoration by thewhen faced with a person who has been
wearing of adornments generally know asrendered incapable of communicating because of
jewelry.for instance an accident.
In ancient times, jewelry may have been simpleOver recent years, popular items have been the
pieces made from natural materials such as shellsbrightly coloured rubber bracelets sold in aid of
plucked from the seashore or pebbles wornvarious charities, which demonstrate that the
smooth and polished by years of being tumbledwearer supports that cause and has donated
along the sea or river bed. These would havemoney to help raise funds for that cause. Some
been strung together perhaps as necklaces ortraditionalists may not regard these strictly as
wrist pieces as early examples of a charmbeing jewelry although who said that the article
bracelet. Nature gives up so many beautiful thingshad to be expensive or made from precious
that can be used to make items such as earrings,metals to qualify for the name.
rings, bracelets, hair pieces and so the list goes on.In modern times, we have seen a huge increase
Skilled craftsmen would have laboured for manyin the type and variety of jewelry available and
hours intricately carving small pieces of bone,the discovery of new strong and lightweight
ivory or wood to fashion exquisite unique piecesmetals such as titanium or other alloys has given
of jewelry, no two of which would ever be therise to new many new possibilities. Man made
same.materials such as acrylics and plastics also lend
To ancient man, jewelry was not just decorativethemselves very well to the manufacture of
but very symbolic and the wearer often held theaffordable, colourful jewelry and in the shops you
belief that these trinkets were lucky, that theycan see many examples of wonderful, bright and
would ward off evil spirits or that they wouldmodern fun items, to be worn on any occasion as
even help them defeat their enemies in battle.the mood takes.
To the Romans and Ancient Egyptians theWhilst most of us choose to spend a little extra
wearing of jewelry and the type of jewelry wornon that special piece of jewelry such as our
was a direct indication of a persons standing in thewedding rings, we now have an endless choice of
community. Large heavy ornate pieces forgedless expensive everyday jewelry which we can
from solid precious metals such as gold, encrustedchange to suit our mood or match our outfit.
with precious or semi precious gemstones were aWho knows what the future holds with regard to
sign to say - look how rich and important I am.the designs and materials we will have at our
Styles and materials may have changed overdisposal to make attractive pieces of jewelry to
time but the wearing of mens jewelry has alwaysbe worn by both men and women. One thing is
been a practice adopted by both men andfor certain and that is that there will be a never
women.ending supply with something to suit all tastes and
Over the years there has even been functionalall budgets from the most traditional to the most
jewelry such as the medical alert items, whichcontemporary.
have saved many peoples lives. Identity type