Custom Made Jewelry Handcrafted –Page 3
What is white gold made of ?
White gold is currently the most popular of all gold alloys, especially for engagement rings and wedding rings.
Fashion question certainly.
However, few people really know what white gold is made of.
Mexican turquoise jewelry
The Indians of pre-Columbian America are known for their religious artifacts, sculptures and turquoise jewelry.
It is believed that it was the Toltecs who developed and controlled the turquoise stone trade in the area that was later to become Mexico.
All Amerindian civilizations have either rubbed shoulders with each other, or succeeded one another, so that there have been enormous influences from one to the other of these civilizations.
Which, throughout Mesoamerica, lead to the manufacture of jewelery, works of art. craftsmanship using turquoise, a stone considered precious by the Aztecs, Mayans and Toltecs, who valued it more than gold.
Read this interesting article on cultural exchanges between Amerindian civilizations.
