| A few jewelers are earning a reputation for creating | | | | the years to come. What this means for the customer |
| some of the most innovative pieces of custom | | | | is 100% accurate designs that traditional craftsmen just |
| jewelry available on the market today. With a forward | | | | can't match. |
| thinking mentality when it comes to designing jewelry | | | | As with traditional designers, only the best materials |
| and using the latest technology available to extenuate | | | | are used in their pieces. They source the highest grade |
| their skills as master goldsmiths some craftsmen are in | | | | metals, Canadian diamonds, colored gemstones, and |
| a league of their own. What results is exquisite pieces | | | | natural untreated diamonds, all in an effort to provide |
| of custom made jewelry that have clients from around | | | | the highest quality for their clients. |
| the world lining up to get their own pieces of innovation. | | | | Choose from earrings, charms, and an array of |
| CAD designed jewellery could be the future! | | | | pendants that allow for custom options of virtually any |
| It takes a commitment to perfection. While many | | | | combination. "Trollbeads" are traditionally known as |
| goldsmiths are staunchly opposed to using technology | | | | charms. These Trollbeads serve to commemorate |
| to aid in their designs, there are some that fully | | | | special events in people's lives,each represented by |
| embrace the technology and their experience with the | | | | individual beads worn collectively on a bracelet. If a |
| software is paying off. With the use of CAD | | | | customer traveled to China for example, she could get |
| (computer aided technology) they have the freedom | | | | a charm in the form of the "Ying and the Yang" to |
| to create pieces of jewellery that are a more precise | | | | commemorate her experience there. Each bead takes |
| product than is possible with hand fabrication. This | | | | its' inspiration from societal and cultural centers such as |
| precision opens up a whole new world of creative | | | | mythology, astrology, and fairy tales. Everyday |
| possibilities. | | | | representations of life are also captured in these tiny |
| CAD software becomes more and more complex | | | | charms, allowing clients bountiful options to represent |
| with each passing year but some jewellery craftsmen | | | | their own lives with their bracelets. Just as with their |
| stay on the leading edge of design technology. Their | | | | rings, earrings, and necklaces, the trollbeads are made |
| pieces already exceed what is possible with standard | | | | with fine materials such as 18 carat gold, sterling silver, |
| forms of jewelry design and that gap will only widen in | | | | Italian glass, natural pearls, and precious stones. |