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We
stock some of the best designs in Indian and English Jewellery. Please
visit our branch
on Radford Road, Hysongreen, Nottingham to find a style that suits your
requirements.
Jewelry
in India has been an unbroken tradition for over 5,000 years. Such is
the skill of Indian
jewellers that with time, the real flowers used by Shakuntala inspired
them to recreate the gifts
of nature in gold and silver.
In early India, people fashioned jewellery out of natural materials
found in abundance all over the country-seeds, feathers, leaves, berries,
fruits, flowers, animal bones, claws and teeth. Even today such jewellery
is used by the different tribal societies. Excavations at Mohenjodaro
and other sites of the Indus Valley civilization have unearthed a wealth
of ornaments. It appears that both men and women of that time wore jewellery
made of gold, silver, copper, ivory and precious and semi-precious stones.
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are abound with descriptions of ornaments
and the code of Manu defines the duties of the goldsmith. By the third
century B.C., India was the leading exporter of gemstones, particularly
diamonds. Gold was usually imported into the country, a practice prevalent
even during the Mughal period.
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