Jewelry has its history since thousands of years ago. So far, people found a track of jewelry’s history from 100,000 years old beads that are made from shells called nassarius. This shows that the need to be seen beautiful has been existed since a long time ago. Besides that, do you know that the word jewel for jewelry was taken form the 13^th century? The word was jouel and it derived from the old French word.

Jewelry is an item that is used for personal beautification. Though it seems like jewelry, belts, garment, buttons, handbags, etc are not considered as jewelry; rather it is only referred as accessories. There are many materials that are used for jewelry; however the most familiar materials are in using gemstones and precious metal. For many traditional tribes they use other natural materials such as bone, animal’s tooth, carved wood and stones to be used as personal adornment. However people nowadays usually wear jewelry that is made by precious metals such as silver earrings, and silver rings that are usually made by sterling silver.

Another common and probably the most expensive precious metal besides sterling silver are gold. The usage of the gold is mostly similar with silver items mentioned above. almost every art of our body can be put jewelry, gold hairpins, gold necklace gold bracelet are some of them.

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