Using coins as jewelry objects, known as Gemme Numari—coin gems or nummary gems—dates back to Ancient Rome. As people traveled around the world, the coins they collected made wonderful souvenirs th...

Gold jewelry crafted in intricate metalwork; fine strands of gold used to make elaborate, eye-catching designs—what you’re looking at here, is Filigree, an elaborate form of jewelry-making that is ...

If you want to see what a grounded, simple Punjabi wedding looked like, you could give Mira Nair’s 2001 masterpiece, Monsoon Wedding a watch. The colors, the events, the decorations, the dresses—ev...

Marriages, for a long time, are required to have some form of jewelry as a marital symbol that the woman never removes during her married life, until widowhood. One such jewelry piece is the perman...

Beautiful and elaborate, Thewa is a 2–3 centuries-old gold jewelry-making art form that originated in the Partabgarh (also known as Pertabgarh or Pratapgarh) district in Rajasthan. Only the men bel...

The first fortnight of 2023 is almost over, and with it is going to be over the time of the winter. The Sun leaves the constellation of Sagittarius and prepares to enter the constellation of Capric...