Showing posts with label pendant setting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pendant setting. Show all posts

2012/02/24

Types of Pendants and Pendant Settings

Jewelry pendants and pendant settings are available in the jewelry market around the world. About the jewelry pendants, they are produced in different materials, for example, semiprecious gemstones, glass, acrylic, risen, metals, pearls, porcelain, polymer, rhinestones, shell, Tibetan silver and others. Well, most people prefer to use gemstone pendants. About the pendant settings in fashion jewelry, almost all of them are produced by metals. These settings are always produced in various colors, such as platinum, silver, gold, antique silver, brown, antique brown, antique gold, red copper and so on.

Acrylic Rhinestone Pendants

Acrylic Rhinestone Pendants

A pendant is any stone, bead or charm that hangs from a necklace. About the pendants, many people like to use them to make pendant necklaces. Like most types of jewelry, pendant necklaces have the ability to be both casual and formal, depending on the type of materials and chains. Choosing the right setting for your pendant depends greatly on your personal style and, of course, your budget. So if you would like to save money, you can purchase discount pendants and pendant settings. As a leadingChinabeads, findings and gems online company, PandaHall.com would offer you a huge promotion at the beginning of each month. That is a great chance to stock your beading materials.

Iron Pendants, Round Bell, with Flowers

Iron Pendants, Round Bell, with Flowers

A formal, elegant pendant, such as a semi-precious stone, deserves an expensive setting to enhance it and bring out its natural beauty. For a fancy type of pendant, the best choice of setting is one that is similarly high quality. If your pendant is more of a fashion statement than an expensive piece, choose a setting that is popular and in style. Well, some pendants are suitable for men. These pendants are generally larger, chunkier and louder than women’s jewelry, because men’s necks and chests tend to be larger than women’s.

Handmade Silver Foil Glass Pendants, 925 Silver

Handmade Silver Foil Glass Pendants, 925 Silver

Today, the wrapped pendants are very popular with people. As we all know that some pendants may available at irregular shapes, so that there are no suitable pendant settings for them. How the jewelry makers deal with them? Wrapping technology is the key to solute this problem. No doubt that you need to by some wires for this design. Wires are available in different materials and colors too. You can choose the suitable one for your designs. Please keep in mind that no matter what jewelry materials you need to buy for your jewelry making, purchase them in budget is quite necessary, especially nowadays.

2012/02/12

How to Choose Suitable Pendant Settings

Do you have many fabulous jewelry pendants or cabochons in hand but have no suitable pendant settings for them? Why not choose purchase some suitable settings for them? As you know that lay aside such many beautiful pendants there is a waste.

What kind of pendant settings are the correct ones? You need to consider it from several factors. First, you should check the shape of your pendants. Jewelry Pendants come in various shapes, such as round, oval, flat round, drop, triangle, rectangular, cross, start, starfish, flower and so on. And accordingly, the shapes of pendant settings are available in various shapes too. Everyone knows that the shape of pendant setting must be the same as shape of pendant. For example, if you have a flat round pendant, you have to choose a round shape setting but not an oval or other shape.

Acrylic Rhinestone Pendants

Acrylic Rhinestone Pendants

Size of pendant settings is the second element you need to consider. When you have chosen a setting with correct shape for your pendant, the other thing you need to consider is if its size is suitable for your pendant. Well, you may be able to check the settings and pendants if they are suitable when you purchase them in offline stores. However, you are able to check them in person if you purchase the pendant and settings from online stores. What should you do? In fact, there is no need to worry either. All the pendant and settings are listed on the websites with their sizes clearly, but please noticed that the size of settings may be their outside. That is to say, you need to know their inner sizes which are the correct or suitable sizes to your pendants. If the descriptions are not clear, feel free to contact the supplier.

Brass Pendants, Drop

Brass Pendants, Drop

To create fashion jewelry, apart from considering the shapes and sizes about both pendants and pendant settings, you also need to consider the materials and colors of them. A good combination for all the factors could create amazing effects and designs. Semi precious gemstone pendants with shining sterling silver settings will create elegant jewelry, glass pendants combined with antique color metal settings would show you vintage style. No matter what style you like, it can be created as long as you can combine your pendant and pendant setting correctly.

Abalone/ Paua Sea Shell Pendants

Abalone/ Paua Sea Shell Pendants

Both jewelry pendants and pendant settings are available widely in the fashion jewelry market. Purchase them from wholesale online stores is a wise method to save time and money. And of course, choose a reliable online wholesale store has become particularly important. PandaHall.com, recommended by many jewelry making friends, could be a good choice