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Thursday, 17th April 2008 (2464 views)

The worldwide jewellery market is seeing an "explosion of new ideas" in the use of gold for designs, according to reports.

Style website fibre2fashion.com says one notable new development in this area is the use of "fabric-style" gold mesh in designs for the mainstream market.

This material is created through a combination of traditional goldsmith work and modern technology, it adds. Although metal mesh was worn by knights hundreds of years ago, it is only through the refinement of new techniques by experienced jewellery designers that the fabric-like material has been incorporated into pieces.

By intertwining, knotting and twisting gold fibres, they can now create "lightweight and graceful" pieces that would have been impossible to make a few years ago, the site says.

Now, however, gold fabric can be used in necklaces, bracelets, earrings and other pieces to create a feeling of "movement and fluidity" not seen in traditional pieces, it states.

Jewellery accounts for around 75 per cent of worldwide gold demand, with India, the United States, China and the Middle East accounting for the majority of jewellery consumption.

 

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