“How the Making of Your Jewelry Affects Your Feelings While Wearing It” In ancient times, jewelry was considered a talisman, a sacred object of power imbued with the energy of the earth, the maker and the divine. These days, we tend to dismiss these notions as “primitive” or irrelevant. We have assumed an empirical, scientific

What’s happening with the cutting edge of Fair Trade jewelry? I was on the panel of the meeting at the JCK Show in Las Vegas, sponsored by the Rapaport Group. Last year, the meeting had a lot more people and press, but perhaps that was in part because

I just returned from the Jewelers’ Circular Keystone (JCK) Show, the largest, most important jewelry trade event in the US. Apart from those who sought me out because of my press release, not one jeweler who walked by my booth even raised the issue of