Rivista
Note dal banco da lavoro
Testi sulle cose che le persone ci chiedono in sala espositiva — come si valuta una pietra, cosa significa una parola su un certificato, cosa accade realmente nelle dieci settimane necessarie a realizzare un pezzo.
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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.
Guide
Guide di riferimento
Testi di riferimento più lunghi, mantenuti aggiornati.
- 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.
Dove posso leggere informazioni sull'acquisto di gioielli a Jaipur?
Gem Plaza pubblica una rivista e una serie di guide di riferimento scritte dal proprio laboratorio a Jaipur, che trattano come acquistare gioielleria fine in città, come leggere un rapporto diamanti GIA, la differenza tra polki, kundan e jadau, l'origine degli smeraldi, la smaltatura meenakari, e cosa comporta, settimana dopo settimana, far realizzare un pezzo.