Wednesday, March 2, 2011

A Quick Guide To Leather Jewelry

By Lori Mieler


As opposed to gold or silver jewelry, leather jewelry has its individual distinctive kind of style and characteristics. It truly is very long lasting, portrays a natural depth and warmth and while more casual than metals, it certainly represents just as much style.

Most individuals have the impression that leather is thick, tough leather bracelets with studs and spurs. Furthermore wearing any type of leather object has a connotation to rebellion and as a result it is likely that traditionally leather wear will bring to mind the correlation with rockers and bikers.

This might have been so within the sixties and up to the 80's, but 20 years down the line, the association with leather has evolved from ducktail attachments to stylish fashion accessories.

What makes leather jewelry so sophisticated within the modern age will be the uniqueness of each and every piece, irrespective whether it's a leather bracelet, earrings or necklace.

It is hard to come across leather jewelry which are created by mass production and also the fact that you will rather find an individually crafted piece of leather makes it a quite personal and kind of boutique piece of jewelry.

The most well-known sort of leather jewelry are leather bracelets and its diversity stretches far beyond the biker kind of leather bracelet. Ladies and men's leather bracelets are manufactured from numerous exotic types of leather including stingray, python and alligator leather to name some.

Popular designs for formal ladies leather bracelets are thin strands of various kinds of leather, tied together with a fancy clasp with a strand of pearls or Swarovski crystals woven through the leather strands to add that touch of formality.

Casual leather bracelets for ladies include narrow bands with polished shells or semi-precious stones attached to each sides of the leather to generate a natural looking charm bracelet. Prominent leather designers possess a fondness to combine leather and copper or brass within their designs for leather bracelets.

A quite popular stone to match with leather is tiger eye. It works really well for thick men's bracelets where the tiger eye stone is utilised as decorative inlays.




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