Vivienne westwood jewelry is often created with non-precious metals, usually
gold or silver plated, plus with, or without beads plus stones. Costume jewelry
has been popular around the world for thousands of years. The Ancient Egyptians
are known to have worn decorative beaded necklaces plus Cleopatra is probably
one of the original wearers of what they now call wholesale vivienne westwood
jewellery. In more recent times the people of the Germanic plus Slovak
regions became highly skilled at developing intricate patterns in glass beads.
However, beadwork used in costume jewelry is not only limited to glass.
A large variety of materials are traditionally used to make beads such as
jet, wood, amber, gemstones, pottery, ceramic, metals, horn, coral, ivory,
tortoiseshell plus pearls. Some modern materials such as plastics, nylon plus
even polycarbonate variants are also used to make beads. Costume jewelry can be
antique, period, or contemporary plus there's many collectors......
