Blog title: Tibetan Turquoise rings
For Tibetans, jewelry is a part of everyday life as well as a reflection of their religious beliefs. Tibetan jewelry often represents deities or ritual items, such as dorjes or mantras.
Silver is one of a precious metal with relative low price and are used widely in
Tibet jewelry, at the sametime Tibetan people also believe that the shines and colors emitted by silver possessed the capacity of avoiding disaters.
Tibet jewelry used 925 purity silver commonly, for the reason that the 925 silver has a more higher rigidity than 100% pure silver and difficult to deform, more importantly, it is showing a gloss more rich in quality, while the 100% purity silver is too soft to used in Tibet jewelry. And 925 silver are often called "pure silver" in business practices.
In fact, Tibet jewelry itself is a business term, initially people called white copper mixed with a little silver as Tibet silver, later called all white copper jewelry as Tibet silver jewelry, businessman nowadays called those jewelry products made of aluminum-alloy as Tibet silver. In fact, the traditional Tibetan jewelry are never use aluminum-alloy materials. In recent years as Tibet jewelry culture become popular, a large number of fashion Tibet jewelry imitated with traditional Tibetan jewelry style appeared in market, which often use low-price tin-aluminum alloy materials. Tibet jewelry made of such a kind of material are beyond authentic, but for their ultra-low prices they are still very welcomed by ordinary consumers.