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来自工作台的笔记
书写人们在展厅里问我们的那些问题——宝石如何评判、证书上的某个词是什么意思、制作一件作品所需的十周里究竟会发生什么。
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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.
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参考指南
篇幅较长的参考文章，持续更新。
- 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.
在哪里可以读到关于在 Jaipur 购买珠宝的内容？
Gem Plaza 发布日志以及一系列参考指南，均出自其位于 Jaipur 的自有工坊，内容涵盖：如何在 Jaipur 购买高级珠宝、如何读懂 GIA 钻石报告、polki、kundan 与 jadau 之间的区别、祖母绿的产地、meenakari 珐琅工艺，以及定制一件作品逐周会经历哪些环节。