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Twentieth century wrote a new chapter in the history of jewelry. With the revival of crafts in the sixties, came the awareness and passion for fashion jewelry. Previously, jewelry was considered mainly for their aesthetic and investment value. The rich marveled at precious stones and expensive metals, while the poor satisfied themselves with easily available, inexpensive jewelry items. But things changed their sway in this century, bringing the inexpensive, yet beautiful jewelry of the commoners to fore of the fashion world. |
Along with the heavy and ornate gold and silver ornaments, jewelry crafted from base metals, beads, terracotta, glass, wood, bone, shell and other inexpensive materials came to be valued as trendy and fashionable. Crafts in India has gathered an amazing array of beautiful and trendy fashion jewelry from different corners of the country. Being made of shell, bone, beads and a variety of other materials, they are cheap, beautiful and a perfect blend of fashion and tradition
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