Swarovski® crystals – what are they? Contrary to what many people think, it’s not rock crystal, but glassware – also known as crystal glass, and often just crystal. Swarovski® is a family company created by Daniel Swarovski (read more: Swarovski. The history) in 1895 in Wattens – located at the foot of the picturesque Austrian Alps. Crystals of this brand are mainly known as Swarovski crystal jewelry, but also a variety of decorations that can be applied to clothing, footwear, handbags, scarves, hats, watches or phones, as well as jets and sequins called crystal Pixie that have found wide application in the cosmetics industry, consisting of nail decoration.

It is 1885. Daniel Swarovski – Czech jeweler realizes his own vision and opens his first factory in the picturesque town of Wattens, located in the high Austrian Alps…

One of the methods of hand-making jewelry is felting. It is one of the oldest methods of fabric creation, consisting of combining fibers into a compact mass, from which a wide spectrum of handicrafts can be created. This method has become popular in recent years, becoming a willingly practiced artistic form of hand-made jewelry, clothing, a wide range of accessories, as well as decorations

Among so many handicrafts areas, handmade jewellery earned its place and has become more and more popular nowdays, mostly due to originality and uniqueness. Jewellery has always been an inseparable part of our wardrobe, whether it is the day by day comfortable jewellery, sporting, or more elegant like evening sophisticated stylization.

Silver jewellery requires special attention because it undergoes the process of oxidation. Some people think that silver gets tarnished under the influence of oxygen, but this is not true, because the dark coating is not the result of contact with oxygen, but with sulfur dioxide particles present in polluted air.