Saturday, February 11, 2012

Go With Online Jewellery Shopping To Uncover The Widest Choices Currently Available

By Adrian Jones


Online Jewellery Shopping Makes Such Clear Good Sense

While you are online jewellery shopping for Celtic rings along with other fine historically influenced pieces, you will discover more about our heritage here in the Orkneys where many jewellery items are made. The Celts, the Norse and the crafts and arts movement have all added to the number of stylish collections you can find here.

Last week, for example, islanders have been commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of a man who really made his mark on the landscape of Orkney. He also travelled around Europe gathering up objet d'arts which still grace the beautiful mansion he built when he was the laird on the island of Shapinsay.

David Balfour was the 4th laird of Balfour and Trenaby. He commissioned the best Scottish architect of the day, David Bryce, to construct the castle in 1847, in Scottish baronial style. It really is a rare example of a calendar house formerly planned with 7 turrets, 12 external doors, 52 rooms and 365 sections of window - see what they did there?

At a musical evening in the drawing room of the castle, commemorating the life of David Balfour we heard all about his life in the first person from actor Dave Grieve who was dressed in a Victorian laird's outfit. He told all of us about how whilst the castle was being built, he and his wife Eleanor began the 'grand tour'. They spent a lot of time in Italy and on the way acquired many art pieces with which to decorate their new home. And Italian craftsmen were hired to style the interiors.

As you are online jewellery shopping on many of the Orkney websites you will note how many jewellery designers have done a kind of tour of the highest quality heritage designs of ages past, from Celtic rings to Norse brooches and Scottish arts and crafts pendants.

Online Jewellery Shopping For Heirlooms

David Balfour had also been an enthusiastic collector of Orkney music and songs. The majority of the melodies he found were performed by performers in the castle drawing room last week. Although he brought change to his land by adding radical agricultural improvements, he also saw the value of preserving Orkney's customs through publishing its folk music for posterity.

In a similar fashion you may find several jewellery designers who have recorded our arts and heritage within their jewellery pieces. Without these gatherings of old traditions they would be lost to our children and grandchildren. Online jewellery shopping offers the opportunity to buy family heirlooms of the future, which can be worn with satisfaction now.




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