Charm Jewellery Expresses Uniqueness of Every Woman Everywhere

Thousands of years ago, Egyptian Pharaohs adorned themselves with charm jewellery encrusted with precious gems to ward off evil spirits. Jewish scholars hid Jewish laws from the Romans on tiny parchments concealed in golden amulets worn close to their hearts on necklaces.

Renaissance knights were the first to "wear their hearts on their sleeves" when they entered tournaments or battles wearing their lady's "favors" tied around their arms. These good luck charms were bits of cloth often adorned with small bits of embroidery and jewels sewn by their ladies and meant to symbolize the strength of love in warding off evil and injury.

Queen Victoria was the first to wear dangling charm jewellery purely as a fashion accessory in the early 20th century. Intricately details bits of silver and gold depicting life milestones like the birth of children were strung beside those depicting religions, favorite hobbies, pets or even flowers

Today, charm jewellery is everywhere. Little bits of silver, gold or other metal sometimes adorned with gemstones are fashioned into visual symbols of what a woman likes, what she knows, even how many children she may have. They're fashioned into necklaces, earrings and rings as well as the more traditional wrist and ankle bracelets. But even the variety of bracelets themselves have exploded in the 21st century as charms are once again popular.

There are still thousands of traditional charms that dangle freely and are attached by links to gold or silver link bracelets. However, there are now two other basic bracelet styles that incorporate charms.Italian charm bracelets are made of flat charm links that form stretchy bracelets. Each charm is enclosed in a standard sized rectangular link allowing for endless personalization options. Approximately 17 such links will snap together to form a medium sized bracelet while 19 links will make up a typical large sized bracelet.

The latest bracelet style is built around a single narrow band of silver or gold. Charm beads of varying shapes and sizes. The beads spin freely on the band allowing for more detailed 3D designs. Adding charms and distributing them evenly around the bracelet is easy because each charm bead includes not a smooth hole through its center, but a threaded hole. The ends of the bracelet and clear spacers positioned at one third intervals around the bracelet are also threaded so beads must be twisted and screwed over them to be added or removed.

This bead type charm system is also proving popular in creating necklaces of varying lengths. The band that holds the charms in this case can either be fixed or flexible and comes in different lengths. Because of the spacing system, necklaces, like bracelets, can include just a few charms or be completely covered in them.

Charm jewellery's popularity has endured through the ages because of this flexibility. It allows a woman to clearly express herself through both her choice of charms, where she chooses to wear them and how she chooses to wear them.