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Keum Boo, ... euhm boo? No, 'Keum boo', a Korean technique! Sometimes it is also spelt as kum-bu. Literally translated it means "attached gold".Keum boo is a Korean technique of applying 24 carats of gold to silver, and is used in many different cultures (both in...

Peridot is known for its yellow-green, intense (olive) green to dark green colour. The colour can variant from pale to deep green. The stone can be translucent to transparent and has a glassy shine. The bright lime green and olive-green specimens are the most sought...

  Polish your jewellery like a pro!Did you know... ... brushing silver with toothpaste makes small scratches in your silver?... polishing with household detergents has an impact on your silver?Silver polishing? What to do and what not to do? How do I best clean and...

  Pearls, a girl's best friend! Classy & stylish"An oyster turns his problem into a pearl."Jack KerklaanEmergence of pearls Pearl-forming sea oysters or oyster-like sea mussels live on long stretched oyster beds near the coast at a depth of approximately 15m. ...

  What you always wanted to know about precious metals and their properties!   Did you know that precious metals have many properties that can be very different?  How so? Properties that make the metal different? Just like we humans are different, every metal is...

  Diamonds are a girl's best friendThe creation of diamond Diamond is carbon crystallised under high pressure and high temperatures. The process takes place in the deep parts of the earth's crust (between 140 and 190km deep) to form diamond, temperature of 1100-1300°C...

  Filigrain, a piece of art made of (silver) threads ... In modern times, filigrain is a special form of jewellery technique, where fine wire (gold and/or silver) is used in jewellery.This involves very fine wire which is twisted or twined and which may be...

February The month of love?   Or is for you every month one of love? Valentine's Day, the feast of love, which is celebrated more and more in different countries.  Many of us think that it is a forced commercial kind of holiday, however, the origins of this day...

Oh, you mean like those lost socks?  Do you recognise that problem too, you wash a pair of socks and only one comes out? I call that 'orphans'.  But no I don't mean that, what I want to talk about in this "blog" is the Lost Wax technique or also called cire-perdue....

There are several ways to find out. 1/ Do you have a perfectly fitting ring? Then you can measure the inside of this ring. Take a ruler or tape measure and measure the diameter of the ring, it is important that you only measure from the inside to the other inside.  So...