But with the growing demand of Art Jewellery, artisans are coming up with innovative ideas and designs to give an ethereal look to a persona. Jewellery is basically adorned to highlight nearly any body part and has no comparison when it comes to accentuate the beauty with varied imaginative & stunningly designed jewellery items. Highly refined materials are used for shaping and transforming the jewellery items into spectacular ornamental items. For eg: metals like gold, silver, copper, ivory, woods, precious diamonds and pearls, beads, shells, leather, glass etc helps in defining varied complicated design shapes on adorning items. Be it formal or ceremonial occasion or casual ones, wide array of jewellery items such as Bangles, Anklets, Nose Pins, Necklaces, Rings, Earrings, Armlets, Bracelets, Toe Rings and many other are used to beautify the varied body parts. Probably jewellery designs vary from classical to antique designs to ethinic designs to very flashy and chunky jewellery. Jewellery is engraved, electroplated and designed using different colours for different occasions. For eg: formal or informal jewellery for ceremonial or casual occasions and bridal jewellery for bridals on their marriage. Now-a-days India is the leading exporter of gemstones particularly diamonds and gold is imported into the country.

Since rajasthan is famous for its jewellery industry, most charming hand crafted jewellery comes from here only. It is one of the world’s largest centre for hand cutting of gems. One can find here precious and semi precious stones like Ruby, Emrald, Garnets, Topaz, Lapis Lazuh, Agate etc. This royal city is also famous for silver ornaments such as anklets, earrings, head gears etc. Besides silver, Lac bangles. Kundan and Minakari, enameled gold jewellery has gained popular heights.

India consists of variety of jewellery and the range of jewellery in India varies from religious one to purely aesthetic one.

• Kundan: - Delhi, Jaipur and Udaipur are famous for the age-old technique of setting gems in gold called Kundan. It is the Mughal-inspired art of setting precious stones like diamonds, emeralds and rubies in gold and silver. Gems are bedded in a surround of gold leaf rather than secured by a rim or claw.

• Gold: - The women of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra are great sticklers for gold. This shiny metal is considered auspicious, not to mention a status symbol. Even the humblest bride down south has some gold in her trousseau.
  
  Handcrafted gold jewellery is still very much the norm though machine-made trinkets are fast catching on. The major difference between the jewellery of north and south India is in the detail, delicacy and motifs. While north Indians think small is beautiful, south Indians certainly believe otherwise.

• Meenakari: - Enameling or meenakari was originally meant to protect gold, which in its pure state is so soft and malleable that it can easily wear away. However, the technique soon came to be used for all sorts of objet d’arts. Enameling is a champleve technique, which in simple English means that a recess is hollowed out in the surface of gold or silver to take in a mineral. For example, cobalt oxide, which gives a blue color, is then fired into the depression so as to leave a thin line separating the segments of color. The patterns are usually floral and colored in red, green and blue and can be seen on small jewellery and kumkum boxes.

• Silver: - The various kinds of adornments in silver are: tikka or the spherical pendant for the forehead; dangling earrings called jhumkas; hansli or the choker; nath or the nose ring which may be attached with a chain to the adjacent jhumka; a girdle or taqri for the waist; a series of bracelets called kadas; payals or anklets with tiny bells on them; and finally the chakti or toe rings of the married women. Also men of Rajasthan commonly wear chokers, earrings and bracelets too.
  
  The designs are a lovely blend of Hindu and Islamic styles. Silver jewellery with ornate tribal designs is a big hit too. A relatively new addition to the collection is silver studded with semi-precious stones. Rajasthan, Gujarat, Himachal and Ladakh are the most happening centers of silver jewellery.

• Threads, Beads & Cowries: - The intricate and artistic twisting of thread is itself seen as an embellishment by the tribal communities of India. They often weave cotton thread into a broad band as a textured or patterned base, and then loop through buttons, beads, metallic droplets or whatever catches their fancy. Beads, shells, cowries and feathers are simple but amazingly creative means to adorn the body beautiful. Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and the northeastern states of Assam, Nagaland and Mizoram top the list of makers of such jewellery.

• Bangles: - Bangles add grace to the feminine beauty. Indian has an ample treasure of antique colorful bangles. Shellac Bangles Brightly colored lac bangles are inexpensive buy in Delhi and Rajasthan. In the pink city of Jaipur, lac trinkets are a common sight in every bazaar.

• Glass & Bead Jewellery: - Varanasi is famous for its glass beads made from fused glass rods, while Purdilpur is famous for black glass beads. Mathura is noted for lovely glass beads, stringing glass and wooden beads in necklaces together with rudraksha {sacred seeds associated to Lord Shiva) and tulsi (basil) in a variety of interesting combinations. Ferozabad has a rich selection of fragile and delicate lightweight beads. `German silver` jewellery created to modern tastes is made in Agra, while Meerut produces exquisite metal jewellery. Silver ornaments are especially popular in Rajasthan, while Karnal in Haryana produces hollow silver beads. Rohtak has well made peasant jewellery and graceful head ornaments are made in Maharashtra.

• Tribal Jewellery: - India has a large tribal population. Their jewellery is a major attraction within the country as well as abroad. The adornment fashioned from flowers, leaves, stones of creepers and fruits are unbelievably charming, shells, seeds and berries rudraksha being, and the most celebrated. Shell bracelets of W. Bengal, specially filigreed gold bracelets will, for certain, capture your heart.

• Natural Pearls:- Popular as an Oriental pearl, natural pearls are formed naturally by free-range "wild" oysters living at sea - without any encouragement from humans. It forms when an irritant, such as a piece of sand, works its way into a particular species of oyster, mussel, or clam. As a defence mechanism, the mollusk secretes a fluid to coat the irritant. Layer upon layer of this coating is deposited on the irritant until a lustrous pearl is formed.

• Cultured pearls: - are real, genuine pearls that are formed inside a living oyster with human intervention. This variety too undergoes the same process. The only difference is that the irritant is a surgically implanted bead or piece of shell called Mother of Pearl. All pearls sold today are cultured pearls.