How To use touchstone jewellery- Ethnic and Traditional

The Gems & Jewellery industry encompasses vast varieties of diamond jewellery and accessories available in attractive designs for all purposes and occasions. It fulfills different requirements of men and women both traditional and modern. Diamonds have become very popular because of the rarity, beauty and endurance. They fit with all sorts of occasions and work well with several metals including gold, silver, palladium, titanium and so on. The availability of the fascinating stones, cut and set with new techniques have broadened their appeal in developing markets

Theexclusive and elegant ethnic jewellery is loved and worn by most of the Indianwomen in parties, weddings, or other special occasions. Each and every womanflaunts her jwellery that is why she always looks for the exclusive designs.Today, not only the Indian women, but most of the foreigners also love to weartraditional Indian jewellery. When it comes to the ethnic touchstone jwellery,they bring the culture and originality from different states in their jewellerydesigns, such as mugalas, ras rava from Saurashtra, ari work from Punjab,meenakari from Ahmedabad, and kundan as well as enamel from Rajasthan. Theyalso have studded jwellery with natural jewels such as Pearls, Rubies,Emeralds, Garnets, Turquoise, Coral, Onyx, as well as many other precious andsemi-precious gemstones. 

It may be 400 years the existing Rajasthani art through which jewellery is done by using an intricately exercised sheet of 23 k gold on glass of numerous colors. There have several Major Milestones in the works of thewa, for example postal stamp continues to be released by Govt. of India in year 2002, depicting thewa, a particular thewa gift by Govt of India was given to Prince Charles on his marriage and also members of the family performing this scintillating art for last 400 years have won national award for 7 times.

Anklets also called as ankle bracelets or ankle chains are already mentioned in ancient texts with several Sanskrit terms like 'Nupur', 'Payal' etc. As per great epic, Ramayana, when Sita was being kidnapped by demon king Ravana, she threw her anklets, armlets and also other ornaments on the mountain for monkeys. Lakshmana could recognize just the anklets of Sita, while he used to daily bow for my child feet.


The chemical composition of opal is hydrous silicate di-oxide (SiO2 + nH2O). It specific gravity ranges between 1.98 and two.20 as well as the refractive index ranges from 1.44 to 1.46. The hardness in the opal around the Mohs scale is usually between 5.5 and 6. The opal is generally made up of silica which is a very delicate stone. It also contains a significant amount of water (usually between 3 and 10 per cent). In most cases, the gem is combined with fair quantity of cristobalite.