Copper has been celebrated as a precious metal for centuries. Copper has often been used for its beauty and luster to create ornaments, unique earrings, unique bracelets, necklaces, rings, other unique jewelry and unique gifts. Most people like the warm glow of copper for their unique jewelry and handmade jewelry pieces as copper has a beautiful earthy tone that also gives a relaxing and comforting effect.
Copper is beautiful color of metal that has been known to humans since ancient times. Many copper ornaments, coins and copper jewelry have been discovered during the excavations of the ancient cities. Being a soft metal and taking an easy shape made copper more versatile for making kitchen ware as well. We always admire the fascinating copper bowls, vases and jars in museums that were found in historical places from over 2,000 years ago. Because copper keeps water cold it was made into water jars and it was great a metal to cook in so many pots were discovered. Copper has been always one of the most useful metals.
Copper also made a great metal for making handmade jewelry and handcrafted unique jewelry by hammering, bending and giving different textures. Copper is the base metal for most of the elegant enamel and cloisonne jewelry that has been made for centuries. You can find these gorgeous enamel handcrafted jewelry pieces in museums and the most expensive jewelry stores throughout Europe and in North America. Copper jewelry gained more importance as jewelry once the health benefits were discovered. Handmade bracelets, handmade rings, handmade earrings made from copper became more available and sought after. It is believed that a copper deficiency causes the pain of arthritis and rheumatism. When copper is worn next to the skin many people find relief from the pains that arthritis and rheumatism cause. Some copper jewelry is also available with magnets to help relieve the pain more.
There is also another way of making copper jewelry that is very fascinating. This unique handcrafted jewelry was originated from an old Turkish art that goes back centuries. Handmade copper jewelry pieces are individually handcrafted in a process of many different steps in order to achieve very special copper jewelry. Animal jewelry, wildlife jewelry and Native American jewelry designs are drawn by hand and transferred onto copper. These unique horse jewelry, dolphin jewelry, hummingbird jewelry and dragonfly jewelry designs are then silver plated. To give a contrast between silver and copper, black color is used in between to separate these two parts of metal color. To highlight all these exceptional handcrafted jewelry pieces, parts of the cat jewelry, wolf jewelry and nature jewelry is diamond cut. Diamond cut, or bright cut, is done by hand and requires highly skilled craftsmanship that can only be obtained by years of training. Diamond cut makes the copper jewelry, copper bracelets, rings, earrings and necklaces look very valuable and expensive.
These diamond cut unique jewelry pieces look like they have diamonds inserted in them and sparkle like the stars in the sky. Most people who like handmade jewelry and handcrafted jewelry appreciate all the skilled work that goes into this handcrafted artisan jewelry and they always cherish their handmade unique jewelry, value them and enjoy them for a long time.
If an jewelry artisan is creating copper jewelry, it is better to make sure to coat the handcrafted jewelry they are creating so people enjoy for a long time without any maintenance.
Copper Reflections have been creating
handmade jewelry and unique gifts since 1985. Inspired by the beauty of wildlife, nature and Native Peoples of North America, each piece is carefully designed and handcrafted especially for you. Our designs are silver plated and diamond cut on copper handcrafted jewelry and unique gifts. Read more by this author, Jennifer Hisir, at the
Handmade Jewelry Blog by Copper Reflections.
