Over the years other have taken the idea of leather jewelry and added to it to create a very impressive art form that many people are beginning to prefer over any precious metal jewelry and it is finding a home in some of the most exclusive jewelry stores in the world.

Back when there was no quest for gold in the United States and back when wealth was measured by pride and not by gain there was a form of jewelry being made in America that was used by the Native American tribes as currency and markings to tell the rank of someone within the tribe. This leather jewelry was created by a proud people and it was in the form of bracelets, necklaces, and charms that the artists would create for various purposes. Today this art form survives and is being used by many people to create some very beautiful leather jewelry for decoration or for personal identification. But what exactly is leather jewelry and how does one create jewelry from pieces of leather?

One of the more popular examples of leather jewelry is the wide bracelet that you see on the arms of many people these days. They will be decorated with elaborate scenes or designs and will be beautifully crafted using a technique that takes years to perfect and is best left in the hands of only the most talented artists. One of the more popular themes of these wide leather bracelets is becoming Asian oriented symbols such as Asian alphabet characters or even scenes of dragons done in beautiful color. These scenes can be quite elaborate and it is impressive the amount of detail they can squeeze into such a small space and it is equally impressive the wide array of colors they use to create this leather jewelry.

What looks like rope to you is jewelry to others. Many pieces of leather jewelry are rope like pieces that are used usually as necklaces. They are interwoven pieces of long leather strips that make a very beautiful design of their own if they are crafted just right. Many people will either wear these necklaces as a singular piece or they will loop many together into a different kind of necklace and in some cases these are used as belts or other accessories. Their diversity is impressive and their craftsmanship is durable and beautiful. As loops they can also be used as bracelets or earrings and they make a wonderful accessory to any outfit for men or women.

In recent years some craftsman have added metal to leather jewelry as an accent to the designs of the leather. They will use metal as clasps or something to add a little sparkle to the design of the leather jewelry. It is hard to say where this art form is headed but there are some very beautiful pieces that are created and formed into leather jewelry. So the next time you are considering a new piece of jewelry be it a necklace or bracelet consider leather jewelry and give an ancient American art form a chance to amaze you.

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It is important to realize that from a creative standpoint that people should think of their clothing as the canvas and they should think of the gemstone jewelry that they wear as the paint that is creatively placed on the canvas. Today’s gemstone is sapphire However, black sapphire jewelry is rare.

Did you know that jewelry is a part of the fashion industry? If you did you that important little tidbit of information then, you might also be aware that there are many different kinds of gemstones that both jewelers and jewelry designers use in creating pieces of gemstone jewelry. There is a gemstone for every month in the year. Diamonds are April’s birthstone and emeralds are May’s birthstone. In addition, Pearls are June’s birthstone and sapphires are September’s birthstone.

Did you know that sometimes both jewelers and jewelry designers create both creative and beautiful jewelry from two colorful gemstones? Jewelry designers and jewelers have created a beautiful sapphire and pearl ring from their wonderful and colorful palate of gemstones. Now it is essential to remember that the creation of a pearl and sapphire ring is beautiful but it isn’t rare as long as the sapphire is blue. However, it would be quite a discovery if we found a black sapphire and pearl ring. This is because black sapphire jewelry in any form is very rare. Don’t worry though sapphires do come in a beautiful palette of colors.

Did you know that both sapphires and rubies are formed at great depth in the earth’s mantle or at the lowest part of the earth’s crust? Did you also know that blue is considered to be the normal color of sapphires? Yes, there are many blue sapphires in the world; however sapphires do come in other beautiful colors such as brown, green, pink, yellow, orange, purple, gray, black, and white. It might interest some jewelry lovers in general and some sapphire lovers in particular to know that any other color sapphire that a blue colored sapphire is considered is considered a fancy colored sapphire.

Therefore, it seems as if black sapphire jewelry is both rare and fancy. In addition to black sapphires, blue sapphires, pink sapphires, green sapphires there are natural sapphires. Some natural sapphires can be discovered to be completely transparent or white. Therefore, white sapphires seem to resemble diamonds but diamonds are harder than white sapphires. In fact, Diamonds are the hardest gemstone amongst all of the beautiful gemstones. Did you know that white sapphires generally come out of the ground as light gray or brown and are heated to make them clear? However, in very rare cases sapphires can be discovered in a clear state.

There are also star sapphires. Star sapphires are the type of sapphires that have a star like phenomenon called asterism. Star sapphires are very unique and creative and it seems as if star sapphires are as rare as the Hope Diamond. Moreover, star sapphires are probably rarer than black sapphire jewelry. However, if you have a black sapphire and pearl ring along with other black sapphire jewelry please consider yourself rare and mysterious.

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Barneys New York, Dallas – one of the few exclusive retailers to carry Warner’s ultra high-end American masterpieces – is located at 8687 North Central Expressway, Suite 1224, Dallas, TX 75225.

About GOOD ART HLYWD
“It’s the coolest jewelry in the world, and the devil’s in the details,” says Josh Warner of his ultra high-end, in-your-face, handcrafted American masterpieces.

Originally intended to appeal to the rebellious subculture of Warner’s youth, the pieces now produced at his company GOOD ART HLYWD have become status symbols for uber-hip trendsetting celebrities who desire a “badass” edginess in contrast to the conservative luxury of Rodeo Drive.

Today the GOOD ART HLWYD line of fine jewelry is still entirely handmade in Los Angeles, with Warner overseeing every stage of production. Designs originate from his drawings (and then either wood or wax carvings) and incorporate everything from the seemingly obvious Spanish Cross to the most innovative clasps and mechanisms this side of the industrial revolution. With details both subtle and outright ingenious, the entire the line is steeped in Warner’s spare-no-expense attitude of “Do it right or don’t do it at all.”

The GOOD ART HLYWD line is available at such exclusive stores as Barneys New York and Louis Boston, and can be viewed (by appointment only) at GOOD ART HLYWD’s Hollywood showroom.

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As consumers rushed to complete their <a href=http://www.jewelleryday.com/ ” target=”_blank”>holiday gift lists online</a>, the analysis showed that fragrance and cosmetics sites experienced a 30 percent increase in the number of unique visitors between November and December, followed by consumer-goods sites with a 23 percent increase, and jewelry, luxury goods and accessories sites with a 22 percent increase, to 24 million unique visitors.

Other sites with a significant increase in unique visitors during the month of December included shipping (21 percent), retail-music (17 percent) and gay and lesbian Web sites (16 percent.)

When it comes to individual Web sites, OfficeMax topped the list for unique-visitor growth in December with a 170 percent increase, fueled mostly by its popular, viral holiday-greeting site Elfyourself.com.

Yahoo Sites continued its reign as the top U.S. Web property in December with about 137 million unique visitors, followed by Google Sites with 133 million and Microsoft Sites with 120 million.

Apple Inc. did well in December, moving up to the No. 10 spot due to interest in the iPod and iPhone as holiday gifts.

Other retail sites that posted big gains in December included Sears, J.C. Penney and Best Buy.

ComScore Inc. measures the digital world based on a global cross-section of more than 2 million consumers who have given the company permission to confidentially capture their browsing and transaction behavior, including online and offline purchasing. ComScore panelists also participate in survey research that captures and integrates their attitudes and intentions.

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The scheme, entitled Win With the Winner, will be open to all consumers who purchase a minimum of AED 500 (£69) worth of gold jewelry at any participating DSF outlet.

Each customer will receive a coupon, which they can then enter into a daily raffle to win a kilogram of gold.

“Research shows that most visitors who come to Dubai purchase gold as the city provides excellent quality and variety of jewelry at the world’s best prices,” said DGJG chairman Tawfique Abdullah.

A total of 32 kilograms of gold will be awarded during the festival, which is in its 13th year.

According to DubaiCityGuide, 76 per cent of people in the city own gold, with 80 per cent of people claiming they will make a gold purchase in the next year.

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Gary Shuler is director of the jewelry department at Sotheby’s in New York City.

“In general, people’s expectations of what their jewelry is worth are higher than they are aware of” in relation to its true value, warned Cheryl Woodland, a certified gemologist and appraiser in Golden, Colo., who has 15 years experience. The market price for a piece of jewelry, she said, is “what a willing buyer is going to pay; there is no Blue Book for selling a piece of jewelry.”

Many factors affect an object’s current market value, from fashion trends to provenance — a piece’s previous owners, the experts say. A piece owned by someone famous, or with a historical association, may have much greater value than an equal piece with no such back story.

“It is difficult to sell your jewelry,” said Christopher Del Gatto, a founder and chief executive of Circa, a six-year-old concern with stores in Manhattan, Palm Beach, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, and Hong Kong, that sells only preowned, or estate, jewelry.

“You don’t think about selling your jewelry until you have to do it, and it’s tough to find a liquid market for a high-end item,” he said. His firm will write a check on the spot, whether the item is a 75-point diamond or a seven-carat, and it completes a deal with more than 80 percent of clients who approach it, he said. Circa also offers a price in writing, allowing sellers to compare offers from other outlets for a few weeks before making a decision. Sellers from around the world mail their jewelry to the firm or e-mail images.

Both Mr. Del Gatto and Ms. Woodland caution would-be sellers against irrational exuberance when hearing an appraised value of a piece, reminding them that its sales value will be much less. “This business is fraught with misnomers,” Mr. Del Gatto said. The appraised value, he adds, is “the retail value for insurance purposes.”

Gary Shuler, director of the jewelry department at Sotheby’s in New York, agreed that most people don’t understand the difference between the real price and the appraised value. “We might get half to one-third to even one-quarter of what you’ve had the item appraised for,” he said. “Everyone has an inflated idea of the value of their possessions.”

Sotheby’s sells jewelry that has a minimum value of $5,000, and adds a negotiated seller’s premium, which is a percentage of the sale price. A buyer’s premium also applies, adding an additional amount up to 25 percent of the price. But just because a piece is valuable monetarily may not mean there is an eager buyer for it, Mr. Shuler said.

“I send people elsewhere all the time,” he said. “The key is, Are we doing you a service? Are we the best people to sell it for you? We don’t make a market. We reflect markets. And we don’t want the piece back. We want it sold.”

Rahul Kadakia, senior vice president and head of jewelry in New York for Christie’s, said: “There is no rule as to the minimum value for the inclusion of a lot in an auction. We also include exquisite examples of vintage jewels and also items with special provenance which may not necessarily hold the highest estimates in the catalogue.”

“Every now and then, we also see jewels and stones that could well be worth a lot of money but if the style is not suited for a certain market or geographic region, it may be difficult to sell,” Mr. Kadakia said.

Occasionally, he said, “we see items that are really not suited for the sales that we put together and we refer clients to local auction houses or even dealers who might handle these jewels. If something is very suited for the European, Asian or Middle Eastern markets, we would suggest the inclusion of these jewels at our sale centers in Geneva, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, Hong Kong or Dubai.”

Gloria Lieberman, director of the jewelry department at Skinner Inc., an auction firm based in Boston with a second sales room in Bolton, Mass., said her firm is one of the few relatively inclusive auction houses.

With two quite different sales rooms and two different audiences, “we make the decision where it should sell,” she said. “I have things for $300 or $500 that are still sophisticated, maybe out of silver or ivory with a certain design quality. Our consignments come from everywhere.”

Just as styles and tastes change, so do the underlying value of stones and metals. “Gold right now is twice the value of 10 years ago,” Ms. Woodland said. Sometimes, a piece can be sold simply for its scrap value.

Impatience will literally cost the seller dearly because the faster the seller needs the money, the lower the price that will be offered, as low as 50 percent of wholesale, she added.

The experts all agreed that before someone even considers selling a piece of jewelry, whether for scrap, at auction or to a local retailer, that person should do research and try to determine its current value. A trained professional certified by the American Society of Appraisers can help.

Kristine Seen, an administrative assistant in Fort Collins, Colo., has learned how tough it can be to sell even 18-karat jewelry studded with diamonds. Her collection, an appraiser told her, could fetch $4,500, a sum she needed to pay the legal fees after her recent divorce. When a local jeweler offered her $800 for all of it, “I laughed at him,” she said. Listing her objects on Craigslist brought a raft of clearly fraudulent buyers.

“This was very much a discouraging experience,” she said.

One other option is consigning the piece with Portero, a three-year-old New York-based online auction firm devoted to luxury objects, including jewelry. The company has completed more than 60,000 auctions. While it sells major names like Harry Winston and Van Cleef & Arpels, it also sells merchandise for as little as $200 or $300.

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When Chelsea wore it, she’d suck on the charms. “We would always tell her to take it out of her mouth,” says McGuire of San Jose, Calif.
A couple months later, Chelsea’s school suggested she be tested for lead poisoning. The results showed a lead level of 27, nearly three times higher than the government’s minimum risk level of 10. Soon after, the charms, which contained lead, were recalled.

A year ago, Jarnell Brown of Minneapolis died after swallowing a lead-filled charm, and at least seven other children have been poisoned by lead in children’s jewelry in the past 10 years.

The use of lead paint in toys from China has become an issue after three Mattel (MAT) recalls, including one this week. Now, the federal government is proposing, for the first time, to regulate lead in children’s jewelry.
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A lack of regulation, spotty testing by manufacturers, an understaffed government agency and few inspections at the U.S. border mean hundreds of thousands of the tiny trinkets parents buy for their children may still have dangerously high levels of lead, some current and former Consumer Product Safety Commission officials say.

The new CPSC proposal, expected by year’s end, would limit the amount of lead that can seep out of jewelry to 0.06% of total content, or no more than 600 parts per million. Those limits were adopted in California this summer and are the same as what’s allowed in house paint and toys.

But critics say the standard is based on outdated research and falls short of what is needed to guarantee children aren’t at risk of the learning and behavior issues linked to lead. “All of the (lead) standards need to be completely revisited,” says Bruce Lanphear, a physician and director of the Environmental Health Center at Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospital.

‘Catch as catch can’

Despite the fact that lead in children’s jewelry was becoming a concern in the late 1990s, it wasn’t until the poisoning of Colton Burkhart of Portland, Ore., in 2003 that CPSC was shocked into action. The 4-year-old’s blood lead level reached 123, more than 12 times the minimum risk level, after he swallowed the medallion from a vending machine necklace. Today, Colton’s lead level is still higher than 10.

CPSC went from referring to the risk from ingesting lead as “exposure” to calling it “poisoning,” and the staff changed its stance that lead in jewelry was OK if it wasn’t “accessible” to children (for example, if the lead was coated sufficiently). Now, it is not only proposing regulations for lead in jewelry for children under 6 but is considering including older kids’ jewelry, as well.

Lead was banned for use in house paint and children’s toys in the USA in 1978. But the federal agency charged with ensuring consumer product safety didn’t issue its first guidelines on children’s jewelry until 1998, updating them in 2005. The guidelines are not legally binding. However, CPSC uses them as the basis for negotiating recalls when it finds jewelry with high levels of lead.

The proposed regulations on children’s jewelry won’t require companies to test for lead content, although many manufacturers and retailers already do. Testing would continue to be voluntary.

That means jewelry will be treated like most toys under federal law: Companies are not required to test or certify that the products meet safety standards. But they are subject to civil or criminal penalties if they get caught selling products that violate standards. There’s no Underwriters Laboratories seal of approval on toys or jewelry showing they are safe, as there would be for, say, a toaster.

Acting CPSC Chairman Nancy Nord asked Congress in July to require companies to certify that their products meet safety standards. “To my mind, that’s testing,” which, she says, the “reputable firms do.”

Even if a company voluntarily tests its products for lead, the tests may not be above board, says Gene Rider, a vice president at testing laboratory Intertek of Oak Brook, Ill. It works extensively with manufacturers in China.

Foreign suppliers sometimes provide “golden samples (with) test results that always come back good,” says Rider. The key is knowing “what does the test represent?”

“You shouldn’t have to worry whether kids are going to get lead in their toys or jewelry,” says Andrew Krulwich, a former CPSC general counsel who is now a regulatory lawyer. “They’ve got to come up with some requirements.”

The issue has caught Washington’s attention. A bill sponsored by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., would require independent testing and certification of children’s products. The CPSC will hold a U.S.-China summit on product safety next week and a congressional hearing on lead-tainted children’s products, including jewelry, is scheduled for Sept. 19.

CPSC spokesman Scott Wolfson says the agency has stepped up random inspections of children’s jewelry and is working more closely with state officials to target tainted jewelry. But the agency has only 82 inspectors nationwide who handle all consumer products. That’s down from about 300 in 1981 and 99 in 2004. There are three openings in the compliance office, where potential recalls are investigated, yet the agency hired two economists this summer.

“CPSC should be focused on enforcement, on inspections and on what is being done right now for preventing dangerous products from getting on store shelves in the future,” says Pamela Gilbert, who was CPSC executive director in the Clinton administration.

Nord says the agency is “not a toothless tiger,” but acknowledges, “We can always do more with more.”

Until Colton Burkhart’s poisoning, children’s jewelry had just been a lower priority for the CSPC than other products, such as all-terrain vehicles, which are much more likely to cause children’s deaths.

“It’s not that CPSC is trying to do bad, but they just have a lot of problems getting a focus,” says former CPSC executive director Michael Brown, who now represents manufacturers as a product liability lawyer. “When you have very few people, you end up with catch-as-catch-can enforcement.”

‘Little-known agents’

Forty-two recalls of more than 100 million pieces of lead-tainted jewelry have occurred in the past four years, including a recall in May of 103,000 High School Musical and other themed necklaces.

Some of the recalled jewelry has been sold and resold by networks of little-known agents, distributors and other middlemen before landing at U.S. retailers, which CPSC acknowledges can make the products difficult to track.

The recall of High School Musical jewelry came after random testing by Tween Brands, the company that owns Limited Too and Justice stores where the jewelry was sold. Its Chinese suppliers were “relatively small operators,” says spokesman Robert Atkinson. “They were names I didn’t recognize. (They were) not part of some big conglomerate.”

The company pulled the jewelry even though the lead levels were so low that they could have come from the air in the Chinese factory where it was made, Atkinson says. “The tolerances here in some cases were almost immeasurable.”

Michael Klein, president of U.S. Toy Co. of Grandview, Mo., who had two recalls in the past year because of lead content in jewelry his company sells, says small companies are overwhelmed by safety regulations, and “It’s almost impossible to keep up with.”

The issue of lead in children’s jewelry should be focused on whether the lead is accessible to children, says Michael Gale, executive director of the Fashion Jewelry Trade Association, which represents about 225 U.S. jewelry suppliers and retailers. If the lead is plated several times with other metals, it would not be able to seep out, the industry told CPSC in a meeting last month. “We’re very concerned about the safety of children and also the ability of our industry to do business,” says Gale.

The attraction of lead

Lead tastes sweet.

That may make jewelry and other items that have lead in them even more tempting for young children to suck on, medical experts say. About 20,000 children under 18 were treated in emergency rooms for swallowing jewelry from 2000 to 2005, according to CPSC. About 80% of them were 6 or younger.

Nearly 300,000 U.S. children under 6 years old have lead levels above 10, the level the government says puts kids at risk. Research now shows that levels as low as 4 can affect a child’s IQ, and the risk doesn’t go away when the level drops. So, Lanphear says, millions more children may be at risk of learning and behavioral issues.

“Some of the effects appear to be subtle,” says Amy Roberts, manager of the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program in Kansas City, Mo. “You may have a child that appears to be growing and doing what they are supposed to be doing developmentally, and you don’t see problems until they become 15 or 16, and they have to make much more complicated decisions.”

Lead can linger in the human body for years, says Richard Leiker, an Oregon health official who worked on Colton Burkhart’s case. “It can be stored in the bones. It may take 20 to 30 years for all of that to come out.”

That’s what scares Erin McGuire. When her daughter’s lead level went back down, she decided there was no harm done. But now, McGuire says, she’s concerned that the lead may have had a longer-term impact as her daughter has started having problems in school despite being part of the gifted and talented program.

“She’s above her grade level in reading but is just blank in math,” says McGuire. “The discrepancy is so large that we’re in the middle of trying to find out if she has any (lead-related) learning problems.”

Contributing: Mindy Fetterman

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The National Jewelry Institute (NJI) was formed in 2002 as a not-for-profit institute whose mission is to preserve research and exhibit fine jewelryrom all over the world. The National Jewelry Institute has held exhibitions in New York, London and Paris. To date, the National Jewelry Institute’s exhibitions have included primarily historical objects. Designer Showcase will provide exposure and much deserved recognition for today’s exceptional designers.

” I consider each aspect of the piece I am creating, taking care to choose the right color and cut of stones to accent the beauty of construction as well as the woman who will ultimately end up wearing it and treasuring it for years to come. I am extremely honored to participate in this exciting event.”

“Steven Zale’s samples of work that we have seen are extremely important in that they are marked with an individual design approach. This striking individuality is the driving force behind Designer Showcase.”

Mr. Zale’s jewelry design roots run deep. For more than 25 years, his passion for jewelry and crafting a quality piece with an eye for cutting edge collections have made his company, Zalemark, Inc. a leader in the jewelry industry. To be included in this exhibition at the Forbes Galleries will be especially rewarding for him.

“I consider each aspect of the piece I am creating, taking care to choose the right color and cut of stones to accent the beauty of construction as well as the woman who will ultimately end up wearing it and treasuring it for years to come. I am extremely honored to participate in this exciting event.”

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The event was held in the historic Lotos Club, where Kaiser for years held celebrated parties for the industry preceding the annual Twenty Four Karat Club of New York dinner.

Kaiser fought in the Polish underground during World War II and later became a U.S. citizen. He founded New York-based David G. Steven, Inc., U.S. distributor of Swiss luxury watch brand Baume & Mercier, and was later president and chairman of Baume & Mercier USA (after acquisition by the brand).

One after another, various trade and association leaders at the well-attended luncheon rose at their tables to offer their memories of Ben Kasier and speak of his wit, wisdom, ethics, business acumen, Old World charm, friendship, and support of the industry.

The luncheon was co-hosted by Rudy Chavez, current president of Baume & Mercier USA, who praised Kaiser’s dedication as a businessman to “integrity, community, and customer service” and his son Steven Kaiser, president of Kaiser Time, who recalled his father’s devotion to his adopted country and toasted him as “a great man.”

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