Irish Jewelry
Posted in: Antique style, Designs, Irish Style by weddingcometrue | March 5th 2010 | no comments
Irish jewelry, be graceful and mysterious! - There is no need much about Irish culture and political wars led with Great Britain along centuries, just listen to Enya`s music and you will soon understand the Irish way of thinking and behavior. Irishmen believe in faith and while rain stops, they receive it as a bless from God, because a day without a rain is one special day when they work harder or visit all the relatives.
Taking in account these minimal elements, you will find the Irish jewelry as graceful as the greenest grass on Irish coasts and as mysterious as the morning mist. Irishmen aren't a solar people as Egyptians, for example, so they will prefer for their jewels grey and misty materials, such as silver, onyx, obsidian, amethyst or garnet.
From your trip to Ireland, you can return with a whole collection of fine and cheap jewels, for which your friends will surely envy you. The most common symbols you will find carved on jewels are those Celtic, it is well known the fact that Irishmen are quite national, so enjoy your silver trinity with amethyst ring (about 30$), so small and fine manufactured that you have to look closer on a woman`s finger to notice its design.
Other celtic symbols are the cross with extraordinary beams of light (one ring will cost about 70$), forget-me-not flowers (one ring costs about 60$), twinned hearts to symbolize that nothing on this world could separate the lovers ( one silver ring costs 30$ and a white gold ring about 85$).
Irishmen tend to be very religious, this seemed to be the main reason of the wars led against protestant Great Britain. You will find delicate Communion rosary bracelets adorned with the same Celtic cross and with the Holy Grail. Even the children have religious jewels such as: pink and green Communion rosary bracelets (about 40$) or silver and pearl cross pendants (about 50$).
Irish women enjoy to wrap their hands` joints with cuffs. The celtic birds or crosses cuffs or the leather cuffs are cheap (between 20- 30$) and will highlight the delicate aspect of your hands. Mothers are praised through Celtic Mother rings (about 55$), formed by more than three simple hearts, which are twinned.
Claddagh is a special word for Irishmen, which means “unbreakable love, feelings”. When an Irish woman receives a Claddagh ring, she knows for sure that she will get married with the man in front of her or when a child receives a small Claddagh ring, parents are very proud of having raised a child like him or her. A Claddagh ring is usually a silver or white gold heart crowned by a royal tiara and held gently by two hands. The message is simple: the receiver is the king or the queen for the person, who gives it as a gift.