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On Jul 21, 10:49 am, William Black
wrote: Ganesh wrote: What are the different types of diamond settings commonly available in the UK market? Well. If you get hold of the Cookson's Precious Metals catalogue, which is sort of the industry standard, it has some 838 stone settings and 459 different rings to fit them to. Obviously some settings won't go onto some rings. And some of them are pretty big so you'd need a largish diamond to go into them... Cookson's charge £10 for their 'long form' catalogue. Does this website http://www.cooksongold.com belong to the Cookson you are talking about? |
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Ganesh wrote:
On Jul 21, 10:49 am, William Black wrote: Ganesh wrote: What are the different types of diamond settings commonly available in the UK market? Well. If you get hold of the Cookson's Precious Metals catalogue, which is sort of the industry standard, it has some 838 stone settings and 459 different rings to fit them to. Obviously some settings won't go onto some rings. And some of them are pretty big so you'd need a largish diamond to go into them... Cookson's charge £10 for their 'long form' catalogue. Does this website http://www.cooksongold.com belong to the Cookson you are talking about? No that is a cooking website, dealing with recipes based on gold. -- Abrasha http://www.abrasha.com |
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Ganesh wrote:
On Jul 21, 10:49 am, William Black wrote: Ganesh wrote: What are the different types of diamond settings commonly available in the UK market? Well. If you get hold of the Cookson's Precious Metals catalogue, which is sort of the industry standard, it has some 838 stone settings and 459 different rings to fit them to. Obviously some settings won't go onto some rings. And some of them are pretty big so you'd need a largish diamond to go into them... Cookson's charge £10 for their 'long form' catalogue. Does this website http://www.cooksongold.com belong to the Cookson you are talking about? Yes. But it's a reasonably poor site to try and select a stone setting or a ring from as it's reasonably hard to navigate using design as the search parameter. -- William Black So I looked at the script It was six weeks filming in the desert. No girls, no dialogue, just guys with guns. They said "Do you want wages or a percentage?" It looked like a certain turkey. When they came the second time I was ready. I haven't had to work since... Eli Wallach on his roles in "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Good the Bad and The Ugly |
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On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:36:44 -0700, in rec.crafts.jewelry Abrasha
wrote: No that is a cooking website, dealing with recipes based on gold. Ah yes. Steamed bridal jewelry with a whine and jeez sauce. A favorite of jilted lovers everywhere... ;-) |
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Abrasha wrote:
Ganesh wrote: On Jul 21, 10:49 am, William Black wrote: Ganesh wrote: What are the different types of diamond settings commonly available in the UK market? Well. If you get hold of the Cookson's Precious Metals catalogue, which is sort of the industry standard, it has some 838 stone settings and 459 different rings to fit them to. Obviously some settings won't go onto some rings. And some of them are pretty big so you'd need a largish diamond to go into them... Cookson's charge £10 for their 'long form' catalogue. Does this website http://www.cooksongold.com belong to the Cookson you are talking about? No that is a cooking website, dealing with recipes based on gold. Stop being horrible to the poor chap. He's obviously out of his depth. Admittedly the depth he's out of is at the shallow end, but that's not really the point. If he's from, say, India (which his name implies) and he has a retail background there then he'll only have experience of the very stereotypical jewellery you can buy there... -- William Black So I looked at the script It was six weeks filming in the desert. No girls, no dialogue, just guys with guns. They said "Do you want wages or a percentage?" It looked like a certain turkey. When they came the second time I was ready. I haven't had to work since... Eli Wallach on his roles in "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Good the Bad and The Ugly |
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On Jul 23, 1:33*pm, William Black wrote:
Ganesh wrote: What are the different types of diamond settings commonly available in the UK market? Stop being horrible to the poor chap. He's obviously out of his depth. Admittedly the depth he's out of is at the shallow end, *but that's not really the point. If he's from, *say, *India (which his name implies) and he has a retail background there then he'll only have experience of the very stereotypical jewellery you can buy there... you can probably buy other jewelry in India too g (but I think that's not what you were getting at). I'm glad this newsgroup is still active. Aloha, Maren (who still keeps coming back here, it's a place to learn things) |
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Maren aka HiloBeads or PalmsEtc wrote:
On Jul 23, 1:33 pm, William Black wrote: Ganesh wrote: What are the different types of diamond settings commonly available in the UK market? Stop being horrible to the poor chap. He's obviously out of his depth. Admittedly the depth he's out of is at the shallow end, but that's not really the point. If he's from, say, India (which his name implies) and he has a retail background there then he'll only have experience of the very stereotypical jewellery you can buy there... you can probably buy other jewelry in India too g (but I think that's not what you were getting at). I spend a lot of time in India and my experience is that the precious metal jewellery made for internal consumption is beautifully made but completely pedestrian and conventional in design. There are large quantities of more fashionable jewellery (in Western terms) available but it isn't available in the retail shops. Even in Bombay (Mumbai), the most cosmopolitan of India's cities, you very rarely see anything made in precious metals that isn't of traditional design. -- William Black So I looked at the script It was six weeks filming in the desert. No girls, no dialogue, just guys with guns. They said "Do you want wages or a percentage?" It looked like a certain turkey. When they came the second time I was ready. I haven't had to work since... Eli Wallach on his roles in "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Good the Bad and The Ugly |
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On Jul 25, 2:13*pm, William Black wrote:
Maren aka HiloBeads or PalmsEtc wrote: On Jul 23, 1:33 pm, William Black wrote: Ganesh wrote: What are the different types of diamond settings commonly available in the UK market? Stop being horrible to the poor chap. He's obviously out of his depth. Admittedly the depth he's out of is at the shallow end, *but that's not really the point. If he's from, *say, *India (which his name implies) and he has a retail background there then he'll only have experience of the very stereotypical jewellery you can buy there... you can probably buy other jewelry in India too g (but I think that's not what you were getting at). I spend a lot of time in India and my experience is that the precious metal jewellery made for internal consumption is beautifully made but completely pedestrian and conventional in design. There are large quantities of more fashionable jewellery (in Western terms) available but it isn't available in the retail shops. Even in Bombay (Mumbai), *the most cosmopolitan of India's cities, *you very rarely see anything made in precious metals that isn't of traditional design. Learned something new again. Maybe it's what sells. I've never been to India but I have a co-worker who is from Kerala. I'll ask him - not that I know how much interest in jewelry he (or his wife, who is also from there) has. Thanks, Maren |
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Maren aka HiloBeads or PalmsEtc wrote:
On Jul 25, 2:13 pm, William Black wrote: Maren aka HiloBeads or PalmsEtc wrote: On Jul 23, 1:33 pm, William Black wrote: Ganesh wrote: What are the different types of diamond settings commonly available in the UK market? Stop being horrible to the poor chap. He's obviously out of his depth. Admittedly the depth he's out of is at the shallow end, but that's not really the point. If he's from, say, India (which his name implies) and he has a retail background there then he'll only have experience of the very stereotypical jewellery you can buy there... you can probably buy other jewelry in India too g (but I think that's not what you were getting at). I spend a lot of time in India and my experience is that the precious metal jewellery made for internal consumption is beautifully made but completely pedestrian and conventional in design. There are large quantities of more fashionable jewellery (in Western terms) available but it isn't available in the retail shops. Even in Bombay (Mumbai), the most cosmopolitan of India's cities, you very rarely see anything made in precious metals that isn't of traditional design. Learned something new again. Maybe it's what sells. I've never been to India but I have a co-worker who is from Kerala. I'll ask him - not that I know how much interest in jewelry he (or his wife, who is also from there) has. Every Indian woman I've ever met, including my wife, is very keen indeed on all types of jewellery and every Indian woman I know has a decent collection of jewellery. There's no welfare system in India and sometimes there can be a lot of unrest and trouble. It makes a certain amount of sense to have asserts you can carry... In India it is normal for a middle class woman to have a jeweller who will make her precious metal jewellery for her and costume jewellery is on sale at just about every street corner. But, and it's a big but, the social opportunities for women to wear Western style jewellery are limited. Younger women could, but can't afford it, and older women tend to wear traditional dress where Western style jewellery just disappears into the gold thread embroidered sari or salwar kamese. -- William Black So I looked at the script It was six weeks filming in the desert. No girls, no dialogue, just guys with guns. They said "Do you want wages or a percentage?" It looked like a certain turkey. When they came the second time I was ready. I haven't had to work since... Eli Wallach on his roles in "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Good the Bad and The Ugly |
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On Jul 27, 9:21*am, William Black wrote:
In India it is normal for a middle class woman to have a jeweller who will make her precious metal jewellery for her and costume jewellery is on sale at just about every street corner. But, *and it's a big but, *the social opportunities for women *to wear Western style jewellery are limited. *Younger women could, *but can't afford it, *and older women tend to wear traditional dress where Western style jewellery just disappears into the gold thread embroidered *sari Traditional Ornaments often symbolize various GODs and every ornament various from place to place. If you try to research a Mangalsutra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangalsutra) you will find it is made at least using 1000 different types. What are the different types of Cross available in the western world? I have seen the way it is represented is different in different western region as well and each place has a different signature to it. |
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