Since ancient times, jewelry generally refers to the adornment and decoration that are attached to the human body in addition to clothing, such as headdress, hair ornament, ear ornament, collar ornament, chest ornament, arm ornament, wrist ornament, finger ornament, buckle ornament, and scarf, pa, fan, bag, saber and so on. Now not only confine to the adornment on human body, it hass begun to enter each aspect of the life, blended in the modern cultural life. Modern jewelry has become a kind of culture that involves decorating the living room, beautifying the public environment, decorating the car and beautifying the personal appearance. Accessory article has long history, early in Stone Age, primitive man begins to make the shell that grinds perforation to wait hire article, this estimate can be called the earliest shell article. In feudal society, jewelry became a necessary dowry for parents when their daughter got married. It was not only an accessory, but also a symbol of status. Now , as the richness of material change, blue heart sand shell is acted the role of the pen that has become fashionable dot eyeball, be liked by lady around the world

Classification of shell ornaments

There are many standards for the classification of ornaments, but the most important ones are divided by materials, craft means, uses and decorative parts.

1, according to the different parts of the wear classification

(1) Ornaments

1. Headwear. Main point to the adornment that reaches the place such as ear, nose all around the hair. Specific can be divided into: hair ornaments (hair clips, head flowers, etc.); Earrings (earrings, eardrops, studs, etc.); Nose ornament (usually a nose ring)

2. Bracelet. Mainly used in the neck, chest back, shoulders and other places of decoration. Specific can be divided into: neck act the role ofing (chain of necklace, collar, silk scarf, long sweater, etc.); Brooches (brooches, corsages, pins, etc.); Waist ornament (waist chain, belt, waist towel, etc.); Shoulders (usually an ornament such as a shawl)

3. Hand ornaments (bracelets, bracelets, armbands, rings, rings, etc.)

4, foot ornaments (anklets, anklets, etc.).

5. Pendant (mobile phone pendant, mobile phone chain, bag, etc.)

(2) other categories

There are mainly cosmetics (cosmetics, tattoos, wigs, etc.), dolls, purses, appliances (jewelry boxes, sunglasses, watches, etc.), shoes, home decorations, small pieces, etc.

2. Classification by use

(1) Popular accessories

1, popular: the pursuit of the commodity of jewelry. Large quantities of mechanized production, sales volume;

2, personality popular: the pursuit of jewelry art, personalized, only a small amount of production. Most are handmade and sold in limited quantities.

3, home accessories: the pursuit of accessories comfort

4. Clothing accessories: the pursuit of jewelry art, trend

5. Automobile jewelry: the pursuit of jewelry art, trend

(2) Art accessories

1, collection: exaggerated, not easy to wear, for collection;

2, ornaments: for decoration display;

3, wear: inclined to practical artistic modeling jewelry

Shell handicraft processing

Shell handicrafts use machines to carve and hollow out shells and other ways.