| Nowhere on Earth can you find more master | | | | for silver jewelry reached it from the West. |
| craftsmen of jewelry than in Italy; in fact, Italian | | | | Today, Italy is the center of the European |
| wholesale silver jewelry is just starting to get | | | | jewelry industry, and Italian wholesale silver |
| 'noticed' by the international community. Every | | | | jewelry has become a cornerstone of the |
| country in the world produces ornamental | | | | market. |
| adornment of some type, but few can hold a | | | | Today's trend in Italian wholesale silver jewelry is |
| candle to Italy's passion and history of jewelry | | | | over sizing pieces. While gold jewelry is still |
| design. Italians invented the art of using jewelry | | | | classically delicately-wrought, today's silver jewelry |
| to communicate ones' social status and | | | | is designed to get noticed, with angular and |
| community affiliation, and they have remained on | | | | chunky shapes sharing the same piece with soft |
| the forefront of jewelry creation ever since. | | | | curves and graceful swoops. Italian wholesale |
| While typically Italian jewelry is gold-based, | | | | silver jewelry designers are currently |
| recently, more and more Italian jewelry designers | | | | experimenting with a huge variety of materials as |
| are starting to use silver creations to exemplify | | | | well, combining sterling with semiprecious materials |
| their art. Stefani Argento, for example, uses | | | | like mother-of-pearl, pink quartz, agate, and onyx |
| entirely sterling silver for his creative designs. In | | | | as well as interesting forms of Plexiglass and |
| the precious-stone-jewelry capital of the world, | | | | exotic variants of pearls. There are several |
| Valenza, sterling is rapidly becoming a common | | | | 'naturalist' designers combining sterling silver with |
| element in many remarkable designers' | | | | wood as well. |
| repertoires. To those who know where to get it, | | | | Whether you're looking for traditional romantic |
| Italian wholesale silver jewelry is becoming quite | | | | pieces, eclectic and unusual jewelry, or funky |
| the commodity. | | | | geometric and modern 'wearable art', the |
| Every year, Italian jewelry designers consume | | | | designers of these pieces, from Guiseppe |
| 500 tons of gold -- but 1,400 tons of pure sterling | | | | Zantomio to Monica Traquandi, are taking their |
| silver. Over forty thousand people work for the | | | | craft to new heights. You can find incredible Italian |
| Italian silver working industry. This came about | | | | wholesale silver jewelry all over Italy, or in some |
| because of a coincidence of the market: very | | | | specialty shops in Paris and New York -- or you |
| high-quality silver came available in Italy from the | | | | can look at an up-and-coming Italian jewelry |
| East about the same time that a huge demand | | | | boutique like Piazza Vecchia. |