It is a well-known fact: jewellery buyers have ethical concerns about where and how we source materials. While this certainly puts pressure on our trade, it is also a good (and understandable) awareness.
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Why have beads remained so consistently significant throughout the ages? For starters, humans love symbolism—and beads suit this role to a T. Dating back to their inception, these decorative droplets have served as symbols of status and were traded all over the world. Some particularly superstitious cultures wore beads (often specially carved) as good luck charms or as amulets to help ward off evil or offer protection.
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Rings are symbolic, sentimental, and have spiritual meaning for the wearer. Indeed, a band’s circular shape is representative of the cycle of life and eternity—it is endless.
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Jewellery Business speaks to Sonja Sanders, the president of Jewellery by Sanders in Oshawa, Ont., and a regular contributor to the magazine.
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Once considered a specialty service, custom design is now a standard offering at most jewellery stores.
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I’m curious about how jewellery merchants of long ago could buy diamonds and know for certain they were purchasing the ‘real thing’ and not another variety of cut, colourless gemstone. How often did they worry about that?
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When Sonja Sanders graduated as a gemmologist, she assumed her years working as a goldsmith would give her a competitive edge in the world of appraisals. She soon learned this was not necessarily the case, as appraising encompasses a multitude of design and manufacturing knowledge.
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Brick-and-mortar businesses can leverage the current interest in the sale of estate items to help bring a new type of traffic into a store and compete with Internet shopping.
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Empress Jewellery’s Darren Dubrovsky has been sworn in as chair of the Canadian Jewellers Association (CJA) for 2016-2017. Held at Toronto’s York Club, the association’s annual general meeting saw about 50 people gathered for the collar ceremony.
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