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Italian gold horn necklace: Cornicello meaning
I don’t ever wear two Italian horns at once, because that’s like a double negative, and the power to ward off malocchio will be inverted, kind of like crossing streams.
Our Flag Means Death Gift Guide: Ten Gifts for the Gentleman Pirate
This gift guide is for you if you are or love a gentleman pirate
Island jewelry: Palm trees and coconuts
Palm trees satisfy jewelry customers’ desire for beyond.
Focus on 80s jewelry: the Squiggle
Pablo Picasso’s first modernist design for Tiffany & Co. was the 80s answer to the whiplash line.
80s jewelry focus: Vintage flapper pins
Art Deco was shark week’s OG, and trend-setters in the 1980s found its fashion goddess: the flapper.
Easy DIY Vintage Ornaments
Making your own tree ornaments is a winter holiday tradition. This is an easy way to make vintage ornaments from old brooches.
Meaningful jewelry: Scottish thistle pins
Perhaps the Scots loved the thistle because the duality of its nature mirrored the landscape: pretty and prickly.
Enamel jewelry: Color, Costume, Cloissoné
Enameling jewelry is like icing on a cake.
Italian micromosaic jewelry: Kitsch or collectible?
Micromosaic jewelry has been sold in Italy to visitors since the Grand Tour, the traditional journey across Europe taken by aristocrats who’d just come of age.
American Flag Jewelry: Paste & Patriotism
The country’s economic diversity requires that all red, white, and blue jewelry does not feature diamonds, sapphires and rubies.
Whitby Jet: Victorian Mourning to Vampire Goth
Gothic revivalists have embraced the gemstone from Whitby as a way to nail the Goth aesthetic.