Silver Jewellery in India

Silver Jewellery was generally used by the poor classes. Western India is abundant in silver and keeps a good trade relation ship with Arabia, the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and East Africa. Each state of India has their distinct style of making metal jewelleries and sometimes the silver jewelleries are also preferred by the local people of the states. Some of the silver jewelleries art is figurative like the hero pendant of Rajasthan and the ‘makara’ which is the head endings on bangles. Most of the designs of Western India’s abstract and geometric designs are achieved through the building up of granulation and embossing. Filigree silver is a specialty of Kashmir, parts of West Bengal and Cuttack in Orissa. Filigree is known as ‘tarkashi’ in Cuttack. Necklaces of filigree are admired in Lucknow and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh and are considered as one of the most remarkable creations of the silver Jewellery art in India. To know more read:

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