Earring Display Features to Consider While Purchasing Them

Earring displays can be as original as the jewelry they exhibit. If you’re deciding what kind you want, take some time to consider the rest of your jewelry display, and the style and amount of earrings you have.

Earring Display Features to Consider

- Visibility of the earrings on display

- Portability of the display

- How many pairs of earrings the display can hold

- Durability, if the earring display will be traveling to a lot of shows

- Stability in a stiff breeze, if you’ll be displaying outdoors

- Size of the earring display, and how much of a footprint it takes up on the table

- Whether the earring display coordinates well with the jewelry on it

- How well your earring cards (if you use them) fit on the display

- Whether the earring display coordinates well with the rest of your jewelry display

- Ease of getting earrings on and off their display

- Ease of loading the display with earrings at home and transporting it loaded to show

- Ability to organize earrings by color or style

- Ability to make earring prices known

- Ability to display earrings near pieces they match (for add-on selling)

There are many kinds of interesting earring displays. There are the standard lazy-susan style of revolving racks with bars for hanging earring cards. These are popular because they’re attractive but unobtrusive, they look professional, and they hold a lot of earrings while using only a small amount of table space. You can get these pretty inexpensively from jewelry display suppliers if you shop around and compare prices.

There are also folding earring displays that stand up in panels, with rungs for hanging earring cards. These can make a nice and useful backdrop to the whole table display, with all the earrings visible at a glance, and no spinning an earring rack to see what’s on the other sides of it.

And there are many earring displays made for showing earrings that are not mounted on cards—these are often available in all colors of velvet, leatherette, linen, silk, satin, and sometimes other fabrics. I’ve also seen them in metal, wood, and plastic.

Ideas for Making Your Own Earring Displays

- On earring cards hung on the pegs of a large peg board

- On earring cards standing up in a slotted wood board

- On a wire mesh screen stretched inside an elegant picture frame that was then propped up on an easel

- On propped up earring cards arrayed artistically around driftwood, seashells, and rocks

- On earring cards hanging on a small artificial Christmas tree

- In jewelry boxes lined up inside jewelry trays

- In jewelry boxes arranged on risers

- Hanging on an interesting, bare tree branch

- Hanging on a velvet ribbon stretched across the inside of an antique picture frame

- On earring cards pinned to a fancy bulletin board

- On earring cards pinned to a fabric-covered bulletin board

Research Earring Displays to Get Ideas

Look at all kinds of commercial earring displays. Look in catalogs, look on the Web, and take a field trip to the shopping mall jewelry stores and trendy jewelry boutiques. What displays are out there—styles, materials, colors, arrangements?

What earring displays do you see at art and craft shows that you like and dislike? What would be neat for your jewelry and the rest of your display? What would be convenient to transport?

Professional earring displays are popular for a reason--they really are a good, efficient, and attractive way to display jewelry. If you decide to purchase professional displays, be sure to look at several suppliers and compare prices, because pricing can vary widely on the same jewelry display from one supplier to another.

By: Nycdisplay.com

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NYC Display, Inc is the leading manufacturer and distributor of Mannequins, Dressing Forms, Jewelry Display, and Store Fixtures in the USA. NYC Display Inc has been providing custom orders, rentals and consulting for over 20 years.

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Metals Used In Gemstone Jewelry – Value, Durability, And Care

osing gemstone jewelry, most buyers tend to focus their attention on the stone along. Precious or semi-precious, single or multiple, transparent or opaque...the questions attached to a purchase of gemstone are endless. But while buying gemstone jewelry ? whether a gemstone ring, earrings or even a gemstone beads necklace ? the metal used must be chosen with as much attention as the gem.

For a balanced choice of metal to be used, three factors must be considered with some importance ? cost, compatibility with the gem, and maintenance. Compatibility with the gem is decided on the basis of color combination and setting - a harder metal will permit a prong setting, better to show off a transparent gem.

In today's fashion, white gold has become extremely popular. White gold is an alloy of gold with either nickel or platinum. Nickel is cheaper than platinum, creates a harder and more durable alloy, but may trigger allergies in some. Palladium white gold (with copper, platinum or rhodium added for some hardness) causes fewer allergies, and handles chemical exposure better than the more reactive nickel.

White gold, especially when rhodium-plated, needs re-plating every year or two. Platinum, though far more expensive, is more likely to get scratched than white gold, is heavier, and needs regular burnishing. White gold goes well with both transparent and opaque stones, and can also be combined with metals of a different tint ? bronze, yellow gold, red gold (alloyed with copper), or green gold (alloyed with silver) ? to produce a varied effect.

Yellow gold is the eternal favorite when it comes to wedding or engagement jewelry. This is quite expensive, and is available in several gradations, called carats. 24-carat gold is 100% gold, while lower carat ratios have less gold and more of metals like copper, palladium or silver.

After gold in the hierarchy of metals used for gemstone jewelry comes silver. Silver has a unique, muted sheen of its own, especially when worn on a regular basis. It is extremely easy to care for ? several silver polishes are available in the market, and the metal is extremely durable, and does not blacken much over time. Silver is also much less expensive than gold, and can be used with equal facility with all kinds of gemstones.

Copper and bronze are often used as settings for semi-precious stones, especially opaque. These are not very expensive, and require very little maintenance ? a little lemon or tomato is usually enough to restore their shine. These metals are somewhat less conventional than those mentioned above, and gemstone bead jewelry set in copper or bronze, when carefully selected, is guaranteed to turn some heads.

Gemstone jewelry should always be designed so that the entire ornament looks well assembled. So rather than just comparing the durability, value and convenience of the options at hand, it is best to look at the stone-metal combination, see what looks best, and choose a selection that is pleasing to your eye, your needs as well as your pocket.

By: Gen Wright

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