Career In Jewelery Designing

Career In Jewelery Designing Its one of themind. The working woman wants trendy and
emerging trend in professional education, As thefunctional trinkets, which can be worn at office, at
growing market in the world of ornaments therehome and on outings.The needs of the working
need a skilled personal who have new idea andwomen have largely influenced the worldwide
new prospective we here stats with the past oftrend in jewellery. On the one hand, a working
jewelry how it come into existence how its namewoman wants to make a fashion statement and,
derived.HISTORY: The word jewellery is derivedon the other hand, she wants trinkets for regular
from the word jewel, which was anglicized fromwear. 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 wordThere are several institutes offering long-term,
"jocale", meaning plaything. Jewellery is one of theshort-term and distance learning courses in
oldest forms of body adornment; recently foundjewellery designing. Here, the students not only
100,000 year-old nassarius shells that were madehone their designing skills, but also learn to use a
into beads are thought to be the oldest knownjewelers tools and pick up rudimentary skills like
jewellery .Although in earlier times jewellery wascasting, stone cutting, engraving and polishing.
created for more practical uses, such as wealthThey also learn special skills like electroplating,
storage and pinning clothes together, in recentmetal colouring, anodising, enamelling, stone setting
times it has been used almost exclusively forand silversmithing. The Delhi-based National
decoration. The first pieces of jewellery wereInstitute of Fashion Technology, the Noida-based
made from natural materials, such as bone, animalJDTI, the Mumbai-based Gemmological Institute of
teeth, shell, wood, and carved stone. JewelleryIndia, the Chennai-based Dr Dhamambal
was often made for people of high importance toGovernment Polytechnic for Women and the
show their status and, in many cases, they wereSurat-based Diamond Institute of India are
buried with it.Jewelery Design At The Closet: It isoffering jewellery designing and allied courses. The
no longer a cloistered trade carried out byGemological Institute, for instance, is also offering
semi-literate goldsmiths in family vaults, passedcourses in pearl identification and stringing,
down like a well-kept secret from generation tojewellery casting, diamond grading and gemology.
generation. Instead, thanks to the advances inThe Chennai-based polytechnic, which has
technology, it has landed on the drawing boardexecuted a joint project with the World Gold
with some firms even using computer-aidedCouncil, is offering courses in Gold smithing and
designs to create exquisite pieces in virtualstone setting. The Surat-based Indian Diamond
reality.Along with the technological finesse hasInstitute is conducting PG Diploma and certificate
come a paradigm shift: Jewellery is no longercourses in diamonds, coloured gemstones and
purchased with only the intrinsic value of gold inmachine cast jewellery. The JDTI, which happens
mind. The working woman wants trendy andto be a division of Silver Smith India Ltd, is also
functional trinkets, which can be worn at office, atoffering an Industrial Jewellery Design Solutions
home and on outings. Says Manikchand, who hascertificate programme in Jewellery Retailing of 45
been associated with his family jewellery businessdays. The institute also provides six to eight
for two decades, The needs of the workingweeks internship to students enrolled in the
women have largely influenced the worldwidetwo-year programme. The fee for a two-year
trend in jewellery. On the one hand, a workingcourse 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 lifestyleaspects of jewellery designing and manufacturing.
industry and demand for jewellery designers.The underlying principle is: If you cant make
Technological Finesse: Jewellery is no longerjewellery, you cant design jewellery".
purchased with only the intrinsic value of gold in