手記
來自工台的札記
書寫人們在展廳問我們的事——一顆石頭如何被評判、證書上某個詞是什麼意思、製作一件作品所需的十週裡實際發生什麼。
我們的寫作目前僅以英文發表。網站其餘部分提供西班牙文版。
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.
指南
參考指南
較長的參考文章，持續更新。
- 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.
在 Jaipur 購買珠寶的相關文章可以在哪裡閱讀？
Gem Plaza 發表一份期刊與一套參考指南，皆寫自其位於 Jaipur 的自家工坊，涵蓋如何在該城購買精品珠寶、如何讀懂 GIA 鑽石報告、polki、kundan 與 jadau 的差別、祖母綠產地、meenakari 琺瑯，以及訂製一件作品每週牽涉到什麼。