Jewellery Know How Articles

Gemstone & Jewellery Cleaning Guide

Have you ever wondered how to clean a treasured piece of jewellery with a particular gemstone in it but are fearful of damaging it?  If so, please subscribe to our newsletter and you will receive our FREE 13-page Gemstone and Jewellery Cleaning Guide as soon as you sign up. 

The Mohs Hardness Scale, Gemstones & Jewellery

The Mohs Scale of Hardness was a system devised to demonstrate the relative hardness of minerals. The Scale includes Talc being very soft at number 1, to Diamond which is the hardest mineral at number 10.

The Best Earring Backs - No More Lost Earrings

If you are fed up with losing an earring or earring back where they aren't secure enough you may be pleasantly surprised to read about these very secure earring backs available, which will keep your earrings secure.

Gold Plated Jewellery

As well as different carats of gold there is gold-plated, gold-filled and gold-vermeil terms used in describing jewellery.  But what does each one mean? In this article we'll answer all these questions

What is Rhodium Plating?

Some of us may know that rhodium-plating as something that is carried out on white gold jewellery, although it is a process that is also used on high-grade sterling silver jewellery. 

What is White Gold?

We get a lot of questions from customers asking about white gold ... "Is it better than yellow gold?" Is it real gold? In this article we answer all the questions we get asked each day in our jewellers about white gold.