| Career In Jewelery Designing Its one of the | | | | mind. The working woman wants trendy and |
| emerging trend in professional education, As the | | | | functional trinkets, which can be worn at office, at |
| growing market in the world of ornaments there | | | | home and on outings.The needs of the working |
| need a skilled personal who have new idea and | | | | women have largely influenced the worldwide |
| new prospective we here stats with the past of | | | | trend in jewellery. On the one hand, a working |
| jewelry how it come into existence how its name | | | | woman wants to make a fashion statement and, |
| derived.HISTORY: The word jewellery is derived | | | | on the other hand, she wants trinkets for regular |
| from the word jewel, which was anglicized from | | | | wear. That in turn has spawned a lifestyle |
| the Old French "jouel" in around the 13th century. | | | | industry and demand for jewellery designers. |
| Further tracing leads back to the Latin word | | | | There are several institutes offering long-term, |
| "jocale", meaning plaything. Jewellery is one of the | | | | short-term and distance learning courses in |
| oldest forms of body adornment; recently found | | | | jewellery designing. Here, the students not only |
| 100,000 year-old nassarius shells that were made | | | | hone their designing skills, but also learn to use a |
| into beads are thought to be the oldest known | | | | jewelers tools and pick up rudimentary skills like |
| jewellery .Although in earlier times jewellery was | | | | casting, stone cutting, engraving and polishing. |
| created for more practical uses, such as wealth | | | | They also learn special skills like electroplating, |
| storage and pinning clothes together, in recent | | | | metal colouring, anodising, enamelling, stone setting |
| times it has been used almost exclusively for | | | | and silversmithing. The Delhi-based National |
| decoration. The first pieces of jewellery were | | | | Institute of Fashion Technology, the Noida-based |
| made from natural materials, such as bone, animal | | | | JDTI, the Mumbai-based Gemmological Institute of |
| teeth, shell, wood, and carved stone. Jewellery | | | | India, the Chennai-based Dr Dhamambal |
| was often made for people of high importance to | | | | Government Polytechnic for Women and the |
| show their status and, in many cases, they were | | | | Surat-based Diamond Institute of India are |
| buried with it.Jewelery Design At The Closet: It is | | | | offering jewellery designing and allied courses. The |
| no longer a cloistered trade carried out by | | | | Gemological Institute, for instance, is also offering |
| semi-literate goldsmiths in family vaults, passed | | | | courses in pearl identification and stringing, |
| down like a well-kept secret from generation to | | | | jewellery casting, diamond grading and gemology. |
| generation. Instead, thanks to the advances in | | | | The Chennai-based polytechnic, which has |
| technology, it has landed on the drawing board | | | | executed a joint project with the World Gold |
| with some firms even using computer-aided | | | | Council, is offering courses in Gold smithing and |
| designs to create exquisite pieces in virtual | | | | stone setting. The Surat-based Indian Diamond |
| reality.Along with the technological finesse has | | | | Institute is conducting PG Diploma and certificate |
| come a paradigm shift: Jewellery is no longer | | | | courses in diamonds, coloured gemstones and |
| purchased with only the intrinsic value of gold in | | | | machine cast jewellery. The JDTI, which happens |
| mind. The working woman wants trendy and | | | | to be a division of Silver Smith India Ltd, is also |
| functional trinkets, which can be worn at office, at | | | | offering an Industrial Jewellery Design Solutions |
| home and on outings. Says Manikchand, who has | | | | certificate programme in Jewellery Retailing of 45 |
| been associated with his family jewellery business | | | | days. The institute also provides six to eight |
| for two decades, The needs of the working | | | | weeks internship to students enrolled in the |
| women have largely influenced the worldwide | | | | two-year programme. The fee for a two-year |
| trend in jewellery. On the one hand, a working | | | | course is Rs. 1.80 lakh and for the short-term |
| woman wants to make a fashion statement and, | | | | courses between Rs. 10,000-15,000. Says Narula, |
| on the other hand, she wants trinkets for regular | | | | "The JDTI educates and trains people in all |
| wear. That in turn has spawned a lifestyle | | | | aspects of jewellery designing and manufacturing. |
| industry and demand for jewellery designers. | | | | The underlying principle is: If you cant make |
| Technological Finesse: Jewellery is no longer | | | | jewellery, you cant design jewellery". |
| purchased with only the intrinsic value of gold in | | | | |