Heart jewellery

There are many ways of communication and speaking through jewels is one of them. In the world of ornaments heart jewellery occupies a very important place. The heart is a symbol of the core of Man representing the spiritual, emotional, moral and intellectual characteristics of the person. All this finds expression in heart jewellery. The heart is believed to be the seat of the mind and is taken synonymously with the soul.

Heart jewellery is very popular and is as old as Man. The heart is believed to have divine attributes. Aristotle as well as the Stoics gave importance to the heart over the brain. This idea was captured and made permanent in the form of heart jewellery.

In European folk art the heart is drawn in a particular fashion having the colour red. It is associated with romance. Today it continues in Valentine Day’s cards, boxes and of course as heart jewellery sent by one lover to another. The jewel may be a trinket or crafted from priceless metal. Physicians are not willing to agree that heart jewellery is the exact replica of the human heart – it looks more like the heart of a cow!

It is also said to be a fertility symbol looking like the female genitals, breasts or buttocks.But the idea is the attempt to convey the meaning of the core of human existence through heart jewellery. In ancient Crete the seed of the silphium plant looked exactly like the human heart. Thus from ancient times heart jewellery has been and is very popular. The wings and back of a dove forms a heart. It represents the Greek goddess of Love – Aphrodite.

There are many types of heart jewellery in the Valentine Day’s collection. There are the white gold diamond heart pendants, heart lockets, oval enameled locked with heart, folding heart locket that opens out with a clasp, heart love necklets, heart inside bombs pendants, heart charm bracelets and many more.

There are also heart shaped ear rings, caged heart charms, blue topaz and diamond heart pendants, hearts attached to key charms and modern heart longish pendants with overlapping circles. There are also heart shaped rings – single or two joined together. Heart shaped gold pendants have diamonds in the centre – that too in the form of hearts.

There are heart jewellery sets of gold and diamond with matching ear tops and pendants with or without rings. The heart to heart diamond pendant tops the list with two hearts entwined together in sweet talk.