Jewelry design is the art or profession of designing and creating jewellery, one of civilization's earliest forms of decoration, dating back at least 7,000 years to the earliest known human societies in the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia and Egypt. Its methods have ranged across the centuries from the beadwork of ancient times to the metalworking and gem-cutting practiced today.
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Cloisonne enamel is also worked as a jewelry-design technique, not only on vessels and icons.
Damascening is used in jewelry-design as well as on arms, armor and larger metalwork.
Filigree wirework is a core jewelry-design technique as well as a broader metalwork one.
Niello inlay is widely used in jewelry-design as well as on larger metalwork.
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Gold and enamel table sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini, 1543.
Faberge jeweled Easter egg.
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