What is Artisan Jewelry?

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To define Artisan Jewelry, we need to know the difference between and artist and an artisan. An artisan is a skilled craftsperson who makes beautiful and high quality items for use. An artist creates beautiful pieces for aesthetic, sentimental, and sometimes historical value, but the artist’s creation is not intended for use.

Arts and Crafts became a popular term in the mid-1800s and is now considered a historical movement. The Arts and Crafts movement explores the connection of creator and product. In the US, artisans embraced machines to aid in the creation of high-quality stylized pieces for use in homes and public spaces across the country. In the UK, artisans preferred the handmade over the machine-made and stressed the importance of connection between the creator and creation; not just an artisan and a finished treasure, but also deity and nature.

The Arts and Crafts movement was born out of the intellectual Victorian experience and a resurgance of the medieval idea that nature is an expression of a divine hand. The influence of nature is evident in the Arts and Crafts choice of materials, botanical shapes, and repeating patterns. The idea that functional objects can be divinely inspired is the root of Arts and Crafts thought.

Today, artisans maintain the spirit of craftsmanship that the early medieval guildsman strove for, that renaissance Arti Maggiori prized, that Arts and Crafts creators embraced, and that mass-production threatens.

Artisan jewelry is made by a skilled craftsperson with years of experience. The jewelry is sturdy and long-lasting, made of fine materials, and of heirloom quality. Artisan jewelry – in the traditional sense – is heirloom jewelry.

Today more than ever, the selection of raw materials plays an important part in the creation of artisan jewelry. Fine gold, silver, stones, and coins recycled, taken out of the waste stream, and crafted into stunning heirloom pieces make modern artisan jewelry a beautiful, lasting, and responsible choice.

Artisan jewelry is a useable object d’art. Artisan jewelry is not something to be worn a handful of times and discarded. Artisan jewely is designed with the future in mind.

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