Pendants&Necklace

Silver handmade pendants and necklaces – choose your best one!

Necklaces are popular item of jewelry worn around the neck and are commonly made from flexible materials or in flexible forms as chains or strings of beads, gems, stones and woods. The necklaces are made in a variety of lengths ranging from «dog collar» (being as short to be worn right around the neck) to longer necklaces.

Today there are mass production necklaces and handmade necklaces available. Handmade jewelry is a trendy solution. To get a handmade necklace you can watch some tutorials and try to make unusual necklaces on your own or buy one of the unusual necklaces from our Viking store. 

Handmade necklaces are hard to produce. The process requires special skills, much efforts and time as well as patience to make everything accurately and correctly. 

Making a necklace on your own is not cheaper than purchasing ready to wear jewelry as the materials and parts (especially high quality pendants or handmade pendants, chains and durable locks). Besides the first result of your handcrafting can be poor and disappointing.

From the history of handmade necklaces

The first necklaces were only handmade, the items were worn by both men and women till the 18th century when the necklace turned into primarily women's jewelry. Necklaces came back into male fashion in the 1960s-1970s in terms of hipster culture. During this period men wore golden and silver necklaces commonly decorated with amulets and charms. Male necklaces in certain occupations never came out of fashion (for example, religious people as bishops).

First necklaces were made of natural materials as animal teeth, shells, stones, woods, beads made of bones and others. First precious necklaces date back to the 4300 year before present.

One of the most prominent early necklaces is a Celtic torc (a silver necklace made of two twisted strings of this precious metal). Celtic necklaces were commonly added with lunula.

Our store offers high quality handmade accessories produced from precious metals as silver and precious gems. You can choose among ready made unusual necklaces or choose among chains and handmade silver pendants to get a really unique and distinguishable items. Moreover, by doing so you can get a handmade necklace with special meaning you want. We offer simple silver necklaces and unusual jewelry. In the next paragraph you will find the clues why handmade silver necklaces are so popular.

Ancient silver necklaces meaning

In ancient times necklaces were used not for decoration and attention attraction but as a means of communication. The necklaces communicated power, authority, value, wealth, prestige, skills performance and others. The items communicated identity and social position of their owner.

In modern culture silver necklaces have the same meaning. The necklaces are produced of various sizes, weight, plaiting. The thicker and the heavier the necklace is the more wealth of its owner it communicates. Mass produced necklaces are commonly made of gold to communicate even more value, wealth, authority and financial power of a person. However handmade necklaces are commonly made of silver. Silver is cheaper than gold, moreover it is more durable and less vulnerable to external factors. 

How psychologists explain the trend for necklaces

Humans are deprived of attributes animals have to attract the opposite sex. The human desire to decorate the body is explained by thriving to attract attention of opposite sex. The best way to attract eyes to certain parts of the body is to decorate it with unusual jewelry. Our store is your best partner providing you the biggest choice of handmade items: chains, necklaces, pendants. 

Our store offers silver necklaces of various types and meanings. Unique necklaces are exact replicas of Viking and Celtic jewelry. We offer the greatest assortment of pendants with various meanings. You can choose animal jewelry pendants as dragon pendant, wolf pendant, phoenix or raven pendants or other powerful protective symbols as kolovrat or black sun symbol.

Celtic cross is one of the most popular symbols used in handmade pendant necklaces.

Handmade jewelry pendants for necklaces

A pendant is a piece of jewelry made of precious or non-precious metal that can be suspended on a chain or a necklace. Pendants vary in form, style and size. Our store offers the greatest selection of pendants for silver necklaces.

First pendants served as amulets and commonly were worn on necklaces. It is one of the most significant forms of prehistoric jewelry which modern science have correctly interpreted. Today the pendants are used as amulets, charms attracting good luck and giving inner power of a sign or symbol a pendant presents. There are pendants signifying ancient pendant gods and symbols the ancient people believed to provide the strongest effect on human life as kolovrat.

Pendants are believed to provide a strong protection from evil eye and other disasters that may happen in life. Pendants are produced detachable thus you can wear a certain pendant on a handmade bracelet, a chain or on sterling silver necklace (all of the items you can buy in our store).

Cross pendant is one of the most popular items across various cultures and across ages. This sign has become popular since the times of establishment of early Christianity. 

Why to buy handmade jewelry?

Our store offers you a unique chance to buy unique jewelry. None of the items is replicated. Our masters produce exact copies of historical relics as well as fancy signs being a result of their imagination. You can fund custom jewelry which will be distinguishable and will never look the same as a necklace or pendant of mass production.

We offer only high quality items made of pure silver. They are durable and do not change their properties with time. Our silver jewelry does not get darker, the chains are durable and do not break while pendants get the solid holders thus you can be sure you will not loose your amulet.

Modern culture does not impose wearing signs, amulets, or jewelry. Today people use jewelry to perform their wealth and to attract attention of others to certain parts of the body. No matter why you want to get a necklace, our store will help you to choose the best one for your lifestyle!