Journal
Notes de l'établi
Des textes sur ce que les clients nous demandent en salle d'exposition — comment une pierre est jugée, ce que signifie un mot sur un certificat, ce qui se passe réellement pendant les dix semaines que prend la réalisation d'une pièce.
Nos textes ne sont pour l'instant publiés qu'en anglais. Le reste du site est disponible en espagnol.
Diamonds • Certification
How to read a GIA certificate
A grading report is a technical document, not a sales aid. Line by line, what each field on a GIA report means, which ones move the price, and the two things the report will never tell you.
Emerald • Sourcing
Emeralds: Zambian versus Colombian, and why Jaipur cuts both
Two deposits, two colours, two prices, and a persistent belief that one is simply better than the other. What actually separates them, and why the cutting happens here.
Bespoke • Atelier
What happens in the ten weeks it takes to make a piece
A bespoke piece is mostly not making. It is deciding — about a stone, a proportion, a setting height — and then a great deal of quiet, sequential work by people who never meet the client.
Meenakari • Craft
Meenakari — the enamel tradition Jaipur nearly lost
A red that only a handful of families could ever fire, applied to the back of a piece where nobody but the wearer would see it. How Jaipur enamelling works, and how close it came to ending.
Guides
Guides de référence
Des textes de référence plus longs, tenus à jour.
- Where to buy fine jewellery in Jaipur — an insider's guideJaipur sells more jewellery per square kilometre than almost anywhere on earth, and most of it is not what a visitor thinks it is. How the city is actually organised, and how to buy in it without being sold to.
- Polki, kundan and jadau — what the words actually meanThree words used almost interchangeably in shops, describing three completely different things: a stone, a technique, and the tradition that holds them together.
- The Jaipur gemstone buying guideWhat the city actually sells, what the treatment vocabulary means, what a laboratory report will and will not tell you, and the eight questions that separate a good purchase from an expensive souvenir.
Où puis-je lire des articles sur l'achat de bijoux à Jaipur ?
Gem Plaza publie un journal et une série de guides de référence rédigés depuis son propre atelier à Jaipur, expliquant comment acheter de la joaillerie fine dans la ville, comment lire un rapport diamant GIA, la différence entre polki, kundan et jadau, l'origine des émeraudes, l'émaillage meenakari, et ce qu'implique, semaine après semaine, la réalisation d'une pièce.