Jewelry Journal

Lab-created sapphire jewelry is made to be worn, not hidden away. A blue pendant can become the piece you reach for with a white shirt; a...

Introduction A ruby bracelet can be vivid without being loud. The best designs use color as a deliberate accent: a narrow line of red beside a...

A good wedding jewelry gift feels like it belongs to the person receiving it. It can coordinate with the celebration, but it shouldn't require the recipient...

The safest way to clean 925 sterling silver jewelry starts with a question: what else is in the piece? Plain, unplated silver, plated silver, and silver...

An engagement ring setting should work on an ordinary Tuesday, not just in a proposal photograph. The setting controls how the stone sits above your finger,...

Lab-created emerald jewelry is a way to wear emerald's distinctive green without choosing a mined stone. The useful buying questions are less romantic but more revealing:...

A tennis bracelet is a flexible line of individually set stones. You can wear that line quietly with a plain shirt or make it the main...

Moissanite and lab-created diamond are different gemstone materials, even though both are made in laboratories for jewelry. A lab-created diamond is diamond: carbon with a diamond...

Lab-grown gemstones are created in a controlled setting rather than formed naturally in the earth. That origin disclosure is useful, but it isn't a complete description...

Moissanite and diamond can both look bright and beautiful, but they don't handle light in exactly the same way. Moissanite tends to show more rainbow-colored fire....

925 sterling silver is an alloy containing 92.5% silver and 7.5% other metals. The extra metals make soft silver more practical for jewelry. That simple definition...