Jewelry – The Heart Tradition

Executive Summary About Heart jewelry by Amy Carrington

Heart Jewelry

There is a long tradition of incorporating the symbol of a heart into different types of jewelry including pendants, necklaces, rings, earrings and bracelets.

Hearts are a sign of love, friendship, commitment and betrothal, depending on what the intent was in the gifting of the jewelry item. Because hearts are relatively easy to fashion, even very hard stones such as diamonds can be made into the heart shape for a truly lovely presentation.

One of the most historical and culturally rich heart-shaped jewelry piece is the Irish Claddagh ring. It is interesting that traditionally the way that the Claddagh ring was worn symbolized which of the meanings of the ring it was intended. If you are married, the Claddagh ring is worn on the left hand, with the crown pointing away from the wearer’s heart.

Worn on the right hand in the opposite position, heart facing inwards, the ring symbolizes that the wearer has had their heart captured by someone else but it has not been formalized. Wearing the ring on the right hand with the heart facing outward means that the wearer is free and available. Hearts are popular in all types of jewelry and can be found in silver, gold, gemstones and even in wire jewelry.

Typically hearts in jewelry are seen on items for women, however hearts in engraving or detailing on wedding bands can be seen on both men’s and women’s styles. If you stop and think about it the symmetrical aspect of the heart shape makes it perfect for balancing jewelry items and for working into other shapes and designs. A common jeweled heart pendant or earrings will take full advantage of this symmetry and have either one larger center jewel or smaller jewels in equal balance on either side of the heart.

Heart shapes have been stylized over the years with longer more artistic hearts very popular in many different jewelry styles. Lockets, traditionally in the shape of a heart are perhaps the best known of the jewelry styles to focus on the heart shape in very traditional ways.

Heart Jewelry for the Heart by the Heart and of the Heart

Executive Summary About Heart jewelry by Mike Caddy

Heart Necklace Jewelry

What is a heart? Back then, this shape was mostly used to symbolize Christ and his love for us. Today, however, this heart symbol is used to depict all kinds of love— from God’s love to the romantic kind of love.

Nowadays, we see the heart symbol most prominently during Valentine’s Day. It can be a person’ way of expressing his love by putting or handing it in a concrete shape. We have heart shaped cards, heart- themed supplies, and then we have the heart jewelry.

Jewelry is something that one wears to enhance one’s physicality. The most common types of jewelry are the rings, the bracelet and the necklaces. The heart jewelry is a simple jewelry type that may have the shape of the heart as the dominating factor of its appearance. The necklace with the heart pendant

The necklace is one of the most popular types of adornment jewelry. They can emphasize the neck and the front cut of what you are wearing. The necklace with the heart pendant is a great jewelry gift as well as a personal purchase. The necklace is one type of jewelry that can come close to where the heart is, and giving your special someone a necklace with a heart pendant can be like saying, ‘I want my heart close to yours’. This is one heart jewelry you can’t go wrong with. There are also heart lockets. Lockets are those pendants that can store small pictures of two inside. The heart locket can symbolize the love between the two people captured in pictures inside the locket.

The bracelet with the heart charms

The bracelet is more of a casual type of jewelry. The bracelet with the heart charms is one of the most popular charm bracelets there are, because it is a jewelry that is versatile in flattering your wrists.

The heart- shaped ring

The ring is perhaps the most symbolic of all jewelry types. Having a heart- shaped ring only serves to reinforce the already existing notion of the ring as a love symbol, which makes the heart- shaped ring a most effective way of saying ‘I love you’.

Whatever you feel, express it. With the heart jewelry, it’s all about telling.

You may want to check out my other guide on Gold Necklaces