Metalsmiths, beaders, carvers, and lapidaries mix a wide range of metals, hardwoods, valuable and semi-precious gemstones, beadwork, quillwork, enamel, bones, cover, vegetal fibres, and other supplies to create jewelry. Contemporary Native American jewellery ranges from hand-quarried and processed stones and shells to computer-fabricated metal and titanium jewellery. Blue kingfisher feathers have been tied onto early Chinese jewelry and later, blue gems and glass were included into designs. The Chinese revered jade because of the human-like qualities they assigned to it, corresponding to its hardness, durability, and wonder. The first jade pieces were very simple, but as time progressed, more complex designs developed. Jade rings from between the 4th and seventh centuries BC show evidence of having been worked with a compound milling machine, tons of of years before the first point out of such gear within the west.
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