How to Care for Your Sweetgrass Jewelry
- Posted on
Learn how to clean and care for your diamond-cut Sweetgrass Jewelry, in 14k gold or sterling silver, with tips straight from Gold Creations.
Learn how to clean and care for your diamond-cut Sweetgrass Jewelry, in 14k gold or sterling silver, with tips straight from Gold Creations.
The Historic Charleston City Market has been a place to buy, sell, and trade for over 200 years. Here's where to find genuine fine jewelry among the stalls, and what separates it from souvenir pieces.
Charleston is one of the most shopped cities in the South. Here's what actually qualifies as an authentic souvenir, from sweetgrass baskets to fine Charleston jewelry, and what to skip.
Every year, visitors come to the Charleston City Market looking for something that actually means something. Lowcountry jewelry, rice beads, sweetgrass, redfish, oyster and sand dollar motifs, carries the story of this place in gold and sterling silver. That's what Lowcountry jewelry is.
In the South, a monogram isn't decoration. It's a claim. It says the item belongs to someone specific, made to last, meant to be passed down. And in Charleston, where craft traditions run deep, from the ironwork on the gates to the sweetgrass in the baskets, hand-engraved jewelry has been part of that language for generations.
Hand-engraved jewelry has seen a significant resurgence in recent years, but in the South it never really went anywhere