GoldenLady imports - Wholesale jewelry in Calgary and Vancouver
If you're a retailer in Calgary or Vancouver, looking for wholesale costume jewellery and accessories.GoldenLady imports can offer you thousands of items to choose from our wide selection of costume jewellery. Including sterling silver necklaces, bracelets,bangles and earrings and of course hundreds of semi precious stones and original design costume jewellery, all at our wholesale prices.
Paying extra for duty, shipping and poor exchange rates for wholesale jewellery just doesn't make sense. If your business operates in Calgary or Vancouver region let GoldenLady imports Wholesale Jewellery take care of the difficulty of purchasing and importing wholesale jewellery from over seas. Purchasing wholesale jewellery from GoldenLady imports Wholesale Jewellery means hassel free transactions and fast shipping times for your jewellery and gift merchandise. Forget those border delays! With our low minimun order for wholesale jewellery, you can't not afford to shop wholesale closer to home.
Paying extra for duty, shipping and poor exchange rates for wholesale jewellery just doesn't make sense. If your business operates in Calgary or Vancouver region let GoldenLady imports Wholesale Jewellery take care of the difficulty of purchasing and importing wholesale jewellery from over seas. Purchasing wholesale jewellery from GoldenLady imports Wholesale Jewellery means hassel free transactions and fast shipping times for your jewellery and gift merchandise. Forget those border delays! With our low minimun order for wholesale jewellery, you can't not afford to shop wholesale closer to home.
The history of jewellery
Jewellery From The Dawn of Man
The word Jewelry is derived from the Latin word jocale, meaning "plaything," and the word jewel, which was anglicised in the 13th century from the Old French word jouel. The word "jewelry" (spelled Jewellery in European English)is used to describe any piece of precious material (gemstones, noble metals, etc.) used to adorn one's self.
Jewelry in its most basic form has been used since the dawn of of man's use of tools and clothing. Until recently, researchers had believed that the ability to use symbolism did not develop until humans had migrated to Europe 35,000 to 40,000 years ago. Recently discovered mollusk or nassarius kraussianus shells that had been perforated to be made into beads are now thought to be some of the oldest known man-made Jewelry. This mollusk jewelry was discovered in a cave in Blombos, South Africa, and dates back to the Middle Stone Age 100,000 years ago. Other readily available natural materials used to make the first jewelry include animal teeth, bone, various types of shells, carved stone and wood. Most likely, jewelry started out as a functional item used to pin articles of clothing together and was later adapted to a purely aesthetic adornment.
Used as a symbol of wealth and/or status as well as to protect against harm, ward of evil, and heal ailments, jewelry was used to adorn nearly every part of the body and has been made out of almost every material known to mankind.
Prolific jewelry making began with the ancestors of Homo Sapiens, the Cro-Magnons over 40,000 years ago when they began to migrate from the Middle East to Europe. Cro-Magnons eventually replaced the Neanderthals as the dominant species. Jewelry from that period includes crudely fashioned necklaces and bracelets made of bone, teeth, mother-of-pearl, shells and stone strung together with a piece of twine or animal sinew. The earliest signs of metallurgy, using copper to make jewelry, was seen around 7,000 years ago.
The word Jewelry is derived from the Latin word jocale, meaning "plaything," and the word jewel, which was anglicised in the 13th century from the Old French word jouel. The word "jewelry" (spelled Jewellery in European English)is used to describe any piece of precious material (gemstones, noble metals, etc.) used to adorn one's self.
Jewelry in its most basic form has been used since the dawn of of man's use of tools and clothing. Until recently, researchers had believed that the ability to use symbolism did not develop until humans had migrated to Europe 35,000 to 40,000 years ago. Recently discovered mollusk or nassarius kraussianus shells that had been perforated to be made into beads are now thought to be some of the oldest known man-made Jewelry. This mollusk jewelry was discovered in a cave in Blombos, South Africa, and dates back to the Middle Stone Age 100,000 years ago. Other readily available natural materials used to make the first jewelry include animal teeth, bone, various types of shells, carved stone and wood. Most likely, jewelry started out as a functional item used to pin articles of clothing together and was later adapted to a purely aesthetic adornment.
Used as a symbol of wealth and/or status as well as to protect against harm, ward of evil, and heal ailments, jewelry was used to adorn nearly every part of the body and has been made out of almost every material known to mankind.
Prolific jewelry making began with the ancestors of Homo Sapiens, the Cro-Magnons over 40,000 years ago when they began to migrate from the Middle East to Europe. Cro-Magnons eventually replaced the Neanderthals as the dominant species. Jewelry from that period includes crudely fashioned necklaces and bracelets made of bone, teeth, mother-of-pearl, shells and stone strung together with a piece of twine or animal sinew. The earliest signs of metallurgy, using copper to make jewelry, was seen around 7,000 years ago.
