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Precious metals have been one of the most valuable materials for mankind for centuries. One of them is gold, which has something amazing about it. Perhaps this is due to its nobility, beauty and gloss, but there are many materials that are also noble, valuable and even more beautiful than gold products. However, gold is still the most valuable ore today – well, maybe with the exception of the 19th century, when the element aluminum was discovered – and the glory days of aluminum have come. At that time, this metal reigned supreme and was more expensive than gold – rich people used aluminum dishes and cutlery.
Gold has been present in jewelry for a long time
Gold is an easy to work metal for goldsmiths, because it is very malleable, thanks to which it can be effortlessly formed. For greater hardness and the desired fashionable colors and styles, it is necessary to add other metals to it, such as copper, palladium, silver, nickel or zinc. Due to its value, beauty and plasticity, this ore is used by many jewellery makers, and the demand for gold 333 and gold 585 jewellery findings provides a wide range of cooperation opportunities for semi-finished products producers with companies in the jewelry industry, as well as with retail customers.
Gold jewellery findings, from which artistic jewelry design can be created
In our shop you can find 14-carat 585 gold jewellery findings and 8-carat 333 gold. The 585 gold fineness means that the alloy contains 58.5% pure gold, the rest is impurities. On the other hand, the fineness of gold 333 means that the precious metal content is 33.3%. In our shop, right after silver 925, the most popular are jewelry blanks made of 585 gold, which are necessary components to compose original jewelry projects. The extensive range of products starts with gold chains (including a gold chain necklace for pendant connectors), gold stud earrings, gold pendants, and ends with small items, such as jump rings, balls, clasps, ends, chain extensions, hallmark tags, bails, gold studs for soldering and gold earring backs.
Gold chains
The 925CRAFT stock includes both bulk chain for jewelry making and ready gold necklace settings and bracelet chains. The category by the meter includes gold anchor chain in three delicate variants and oval chains with larger links, often used as gold chain for men. Wholesale gold chains for jewelry making give many possibilities, because you can make necklaces of non-standard lengths, cascade necklaces, as well as layered gold necklace in a solo version or with a pendant. In the case of bracelets, you can also create versions consisting of several layers, as well as fashionable in recent seasons, bracelets with ring connected with a chain.
You can also add an ornament resting on the upper part of the hand. Another proposal that has recently dominated the jewelry market is the body chain. The most popular are waist chains, but also chains wrapping thighs and face, as well as layered chains decorating the body from the neck to the hips, and even replacing or becoming a part of the clothing. A gold chain by the meter is also an excellent choice for creating tassel chains, which you can use as pendants for a necklace, or gold dangling earrings.
If you create jewelry in the form of a classic gold pendant necklace, we recommend an anchor chain necklace, which is one of the gold chain clasp types. This variant is available in the following sizes: 40 cm, 42 cm, 45 cm and 50 cm. These are the most popular lengths, so you can easily create a variety of men’s and women’s gold necklaces with them to suit the tastes of a wide range of customers. The shortest variant will be brilliant as a gold chain design for a child. You can add a delicate pendant to receive subtle jewelry for a child. In addition to the anchor weave, our stock also includes a gold snake chain with a length of 45 cm and 50 cm. You can combine this pattern with a classic pendant using a jump ring or bail, but due to its structure and thickness, you can also treat it as a carrier for bead decorations. When creating this style of jewelry, you string components with a hole larger than 0.7 mm, such as gold beads, semiprecious stones, pearls, gemstones or other beads, onto the chain.
In addition to the classic version of the gold chain with clasp, we also recommend connector type gold necklace design, an example of which is the 14k gold chain, which is a 2-element thin gold chain, with which you can connect gold pendants for necklace, creating unusual neck decorations. The range of gold findings for jewellery making is extended by a gold chain bracelet, to which by attaching gold charms for bracelets, as well as gold chain extender and a hallmark tag, you can compose jewelry such as a gold clasp bracelet with pendants.
Gold earrings
Another wide selection of jewelry blanks to choose from are gold earring findings, in which gold screw earrings are the leader. Just ensure to additionally order earring back stoppers to make a complete product. Many designs of gold earring settings have popular geometric shapes, which you can engrave, for example, with a company logo, thus creating advertising jewelry. Discover selection of gold pendants for engraving. We give the possibility of laser marking of ordered items, thus enabling the personalization of jewellery work. This group of components includes very fashionable designs such as gold infinity earrings, gold heart earrings or gold cross earrings. These patterns are ideal as gift jewelry for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, birthday or just to make someone happy.
For fans of minimalism, we suggest a pair of gold ball stud earrings with a diameter of 3 mm, which, when put on, will be a delicate accent decorating the earlobe. This model is also a perfect concept for earrings for a girl, just like delicate gold star earrings, elephant, emoticon or gold butterfly earrings. If your collections also include first communion earrings, it is worth adding subtle gold hearts to them, which enjoy undying popularity on this special day. Other suggestions worthy of attention from this category are gold diamond stud earrings, as well as the honeycomb, clover or the gold sun and moon earrings.
On the basis of these jewellery findings, you can make a pair of gold earrings with pendants. Gold hooks in open variant at the bottom are finished with a ring for hanging other components. These earring findings expand the possibility of creating accessories according to original designs. By using laser cut pendants, you can make various openwork gold dangling earrings.
To diversify the designs even more, it is worth to add GAVBARI or Swarovski crystals, as well as semi precious stones pendants. Gold pendant can also be mounted on gold hoops, which are also made of wire, but unlike gold earwires in the shape of hooks, these are round and closed. This gold earrings design is available in diameters of 15 mm and 20 mm. You can use it to make gold hoop earrings with charms. However, these components are also popular among craftsmen creating beaded earrings, which consists in threading beads with a through hole larger than 0.8 mm.
Gold pendants
The assortment of gold pendants for women and men presents mainly laser-cut models made of 0.3 mm thick gold sheet, with the exception of the 585 gold pendant – the gold infinity pendant, which was made by bending. Laser-cut pendants are a category rich in fashionable contemporary design – there is a pendant with the motif of a popular cat, dog’s paw, star, coin, Fatima’s hand or angel’s wing.
The most popular and universal motifs include: a gold heart pendant and a gold cross pendant, while in the spring and summer there is a growing demand for pendants such as:
- gold clover pendant,
- gold butterfly pendant,
- gold moon pendant,
- and gold tree of life pendant.
The clover pendant presents several versions, starting from the form of the connector, through its laser-cut shape in a round plate, ending with an artistic openwork pattern. A 585 gold pendant with a butterfly motif is a perfect choice for a pendant to a chain or earrings. A gold charm in the form of a moon is a popular variant for layered bracelets and necklaces, while the tree of life most often serves as a pendant on a chain connected by two jump rings. Jewellery makers looking for more avant-garde motifs will notice products such as a gold hamsa pendant or a gold world map pendant.
If you make gift jewelry, make sure that your collection does not run out of jewelry with a heart and the infinity sign, which are most often chosen as a gift for a loved one. However, in addition to these universal motifs, it is also worth adding a gold angel pendant and baby feet to the offer, which are often a chosen option for the birth of a child or as Mother’s Day gifts. Of course, we made sure that our supply also includes classics, exemplified by gold zodiac pendants.
Gold pendants related to astrology have the form of openwork circles with the zodiac sign inside, thanks to which you can easily and aesthetically mount them on the chain using gold jump rings or gold bails. In the collection of gold jewellery findings, we will also find holy communion jewellery such as a rectangular Virgin Mary gold medallion, as well as a round gold medal pendant with Our Lady.
Other 585 jewellery findings
Gold chains, gold earring components and pendants belong to the main jewellery making supplies, but in most cases these accessories would not be created without additional jewellery findings that perform finishing functions and linking the elements. The most popular are:
- jump rings,
- bails,
- jewelry clasps,
- jewelry ends,
- chain extensions,
- hallmark tags,
- jewelry balls.
Gold jumprings in our shop are one of the smallest components for creating jewelry, but their role is versatile. With their help, we mainly connect other elements with each other, such as: hooks with a pendant, chains with a pendant, or bracelets with charms. In addition to the connector function, they can also be used to make gold chain extensions by joining several rings together, as well as accessories such as bracelets, necklaces or chainmaille jewelry, consisting of only rings connected together in such a way as to create various patterns.
Gold jewelry bails also serve as connectors. In this case, however, their form is more elegant than the jump rings. In addition, the bails have different styles and ways of assembly, so using them, you can compose necklaces according to your own idea. Among our customers, the most popular is a gold bail for pendant, which creates an aesthetic combination of a pendant and a chain.
Everyone involved in the creation of necklaces and bracelets, whether professional or amateur, cannot do without gold jewelry clasps, which is why we made sure that our production does include them. If you make classic decorations for the neck and wrist from subtle chains, bolt rings are best, which are characterized by a round shape and a mechanism consisting in inserting a small rod into the rail, which protects the component against accidental opening. An example of this kind of gold chain clasps is gold bolt ring clasp. In the case of more massive jewelry, the gold lobster clasp and gold chain clasp are better. Both models have the same mechanism, and differ only in shape. In both cases, in addition to closing the circuit of necklaces and bracelets, they are also often used as connectors for gold charms and pendants.
An important role in jewellery making is also played by jewelry ends. The models we offer in 585 gold are necklace ends, with which you finish the chain by soldering, creating necklaces and bracelets. These jewellery findings are perfect for chains with subtle links, such as anchor or curb chain. The second very practical jewelry tip is a clamshell bead, which is more often used for small ball chains, as well as bracelet ends and necklaces created on jewelry lines and cords. These types of jewellery findings make an elegant cover for a bracelet end knot to which you can attach gold clasps, gold extensions or other components using jump rings.
The 14k gold chain extender also belongs to very useful jewellery findings. It is most often used in the designing of bracelets and necklaces, thanks to which the jewelry becomes universal in terms of adjusting it to the size of the client’s wrist and neckline. Our shop assortment includes a gold necklace extender with a length of 3 cm and 5 cm, which can also be used for bracelets.
As a jewellery maker creating gold jewelry, you should place a hallmark with the gold jewelry quality. In the case of chain jewelry, 585 gold stamp on tag will be great – which will inform customers what gold fineness was used in the production of the purchased jewelry. You can place such a tag between the end of the chain and the clasp, on the last link of gold bracelet extender, or in any other convenient place depending on the project. For this purpose, you can also use other hallmark tags, personalizing them by adding an appropriate engraving.
In addition to connecting, finishing and extending gold jewelry findings, we also took care of separating components, examples of which are gold balls and gold bead spacers. They are most often used as separators between beads, stones or pearls in bracelets and necklaces, but they can also be used to decorate other gold products.
The shop assortment of wholesale gold jewelry supplies is expanded by gold earring posts, which are most often used to produce stud earrings. It just requires soldering posts to gold beads for jewelry making, flat shapes, or other forms to make attractive gold earrings. It is a good idea to complement a pair of gold studs with gold earring stoppers, which will protect the jewelry from accidentally slipping out of the ear.
Curiosities about gold
Gold has not only a decorative value in jewelry, but is also a safe form of capital for its owner. This form of capital was and probably will be acceptable at all times, perhaps because pure gold is very durable, it does not corrode, because it is chemically inert – so almost indestructible. For this reason, gold usually does not sensitize and does not irritate the skin, and for this reason it is often chosen for children’s jewelry. This metal will not resist only “royal water”, which is a mixture of concentrated hydrochloric and nitric acid, which dissolves it. In 1940, the Hungarian chemist Georg de Hevesy dissolved the Nobel medals of the German physicist Max von Laue and James Franck in the “royal water” so that the Nazis would not confiscate them. After the war, they were recreated.
- Did you know that you can be afraid of gold? The fear of it is called aurophobia.
- Apparently, as much as 11% of all usable gold in the world is held by housewives in India, which is more than the International Monetary Fund, the USA, Germany and Switzerland combined. Yellow gold is the most valuable there, because Hindus believe in the purifying and protecting power of this metal. In India, it is given to loved ones during important ceremonies, such as brides on their wedding day. Gold jewelry belongs to its owner and is a security in case of divorce.
- There is about 10 mg of gold in the human body, half of it is found in bones and blood. It acts as a catalyst in the formation of many hormones and enzymes.
- Gold is edible – it is used in the form of very thin flakes or dust for cakes, drinks and desserts. Such pleasure with 1 gram of gold costs 300 PLN.
- In Dubai, there is a “Gold to go” machine that dispenses gold in the form of 24 carat bars, tags and gold coins, such as the Krugerrand – (the most popular investment coin in the world) instead of money.
- At the bottom of the oceans there are such huge deposits of gold that if they were mined, there would be over 3 kg of this metal for 1 person on earth.
- Gold is very heavy – 4.5 kg will fit in a glass.
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