Friday, May 22, 2009

Oxidized jewelry

Oxidized jewelry
Oxidized jewellery designs become fashion wave in the Indian and Western culture.It gives very causal and smart look.It is not even too much expensive.The oxidized jewelry sometimes is hand crafted.It gives some what blackish look.You can get oxidized jewelry in silver also, and you can find Meenakari work on oxidized jewelry.It gives an ethnic look.Mostly it is made up of artificial silver.It is very common.Mostly tribal people wear it.Its look heavy but, it is not heavy in weight. Sparklers are not preferred by few in jewellery designs.
Image Courtesy: White Round Composite Jewellery



Artisans who desired minimum loss introduced princess cut. How you can oxidized your jewelry:-

Liver of Sulphur it is a chemical which is used to oxidize the jewelry.Its texture is little sticky.So use carefully.

Process of using this chemical:-

Open the bottle, when you open it you will find chemical in chunk form.

Take a pea size chunk, put it into the glass bowl.Bowl should be big in size so that you can easily dip your jewelry.

Fill the bowl with hot water.

Stir the water till that piece of totally get dissolve. Note stir only with wooden or plastic spoon. Gold trinity officewear pendants are in fashion trend.

Place the jewelry in that bowl and leave it for darkening.

When jewelry get dark then take it out from the hot water and place into the cold water.

Your jewelry get oxidized and flush out the solution.

This is how you can get oxidized silver jewelry. Always make a fresh solution to oxidized your jewelry.

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