Jewelry Industry

Jewellery is the industry built around decorative items worn for personal adornment, including brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Pieces are crafted from precious metals such as gold and silver combined with gemstones, alongside materials including amber, coral, glass, shells, bone, and wood, a materials pairing that has been standard for centuries. Jewellery is among the oldest categories of archaeological artifact, with evidence of its making stretching back roughly 100,000 years, and it has served across cultures as a marker of social status, a religious symbol, a practical fastener, and a store of wealth. That combination of functions, spanning ornament, ritual, and value storage, underlies its standing as a distinct and enduring global industry, separate from the broader luxury goods trade it is sometimes grouped under.