Eponymous Bristol-based jewellery designer Diana Porter has died at the age of 78. Ms Porter, who was well known for her innovative design which saw her win several accolades, fought tirelessly to raise awareness and promote gender equality and became a leading light for women within the jewellery industry.

The word contemporary is defined as belonging to or occurring in the present. … So the contemporary jewelry style are necklaces, rings and bracelets that are created in the present time versus jewelry that is considered antique, Victorian, vintage, or art deco that were styled at a different time.

Modern jewelry encapsulates an era of the 1970s to 1990s where the mantra was more is more. The scale became huge as Pop Art and Bohemian fashions ruled the trends. The concept of creating wearable art took on many new forms and plastic entered the field and changed the rules entirely.

6 days ago In a cave in the western Morocco desert, archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest jewelry: a set of shell beads dated from 142,000 and 150,000 years ago.

The earliest known Jewellery was actually created not by humans (Homo sapiens) but by Neanderthal living in Europe. Specifically, perforated beads made from small sea shells have been found dating to 115,000 years ago in the Cueva de los Aviones, a cave along the southeast coast of Spain.

Ancient Sumerian women’s earrings are the earliest earrings archaeologists have discoveredthey date from perhaps 2500 B.C.E. and are typically gold hoops. Earrings of twisted wire, beads, and pendants were popular in the Aegean, Crete, and Cyprus.