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	Diane Geisel BellaOnline's Jewelry Collecting Editor

Bali Silver - A Beautiful Jewelry Component That a Buyer Must Beware
Bali silver is one of those wonderful precious metal elements you will find in quality jewelry designs from a myriad of jewelry designers. The fact that some countries copy the Balinese style with inferior components that are not sterling silver, makes shopping for Bali silver a complicated affair!

Chainmaille Jewelry
Chainmaille, once used for protection, is now a wonderful source for expanding your jewelry collection!

Copper jewelry through the ages
Copper jewelry collections span thousands of years right up to the present. Take a look at brief snapshot of copper through the ages.

Guilloche- Intricate carvings of yesterday
Guilloche entails carving an intricate design into a base metal, and then filling the indentions in the design with different colors and opacities of enamel- wonderful for jewely!

Jewelry Base Metals
Knowing a bit about the metals used in art of jewelry making is helpful when collecting jewelry. The type of metal used can sometimes lend to identifying the time period in which a piece was made. Here are some of the most common metals found in jewelry:

Silver
The story of silver, its formation, its uses in jewelry, and silver resources.

Verdigris-Evil green monster
Do you know what to do if you find an unwanted green coating on your jewelry? Read on....

Visit Bella Online´s Fashion Jewelry site.
Bella Online´s Fashion Jewelry Editor, Andréa Edes, is a jewelry designer who always loved costume or fashion jewelry as opposed to diamonds. Her hope is that her “passion for fashion“ will come shining through as Fashion Jewelry editor here on BellaOnline.

Wire-sculpted jewelry
Wire-sculpted jewelry is a new and innovative technique of working with wire to form heirloom quality jewelry...no glue, solder or weld nothing but sculpting by hand!