This is a specialized category for professional individual jewelry artisans offering their personally created unique jewelry for sale direct to the public. The quality of a fine juried craft show with the convenience of on-line shopping at a well done website. If you personally design and make *all* of the jewelry on your site, this is the place to apply to list your site.

Sites that *do not* fit in this category are sites that:

1. Sell jewelry that is not designed by the site owner.

2. Sell jewelry that is not made by the site owner.

3. Sell production jewelry.

4. Simply modify other's jewelry.

5. Are resellers of other's jewelry.

6. Sites that sell jewelry supplies, parts, tools, patterns, books, or ideas.

Bead and Gemstone

This category is for artist owned and handcrafted jewelry sites who primarily sell necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pins, pendants, and anklets or other jewelry items made with common or gemstone beads.

For commercially produced bead and gemstone jewelry see: /Shopping/Jewelry/Bead_and_Gemstone

If your site sells a combination of different jewelry items, select the one category which best fits your overall site.

Do NOT submitt your site to every category for which you have jewelry items.

Ceramic

Jewelry handcrafted and designed with ceramic components by the individual jewelry artist.

Costume

This category is for handcrafted jewelry that is made with plated metals, copper and/or brass.

For commercially produced costume jewelry see:

/Shopping/Jewelry/Costume

Ethnic and Regional

Sites in this category sell handcrafted ethnic and regional jewelry. Subcategories have been created for African, Celtic, and Native American. Sites selling jewelry for a variety of ethnicities can be listed at the top level, otherwise they should be listed in the appropriate subcategory.

Sites submitted must be those of the individual artist who crafted the work.

Flowers

Handcrafted jewelry using real flowers.

Glass

Handcrafted jewelry made with glass by the individual glass jewelry artist.

Hemp

Sites selling necklaces, bracelets, earrings and other forms of jewelry using genuine hemp as the weaving material. These jewelry pieces may contain beadwork or other trims but must be primarily constructed using hemp.

Leather

Handcrafted jewelry items made from genuine leather. Items should be made by the artist/designer who owns the web site, not a collective or retailer.

Metalsmiths

This category is for silver, gold and platinum craftsmen who create and hand craft their own original work from raw materials. Jewelers who use commercial mounts and components to set stones into jewelry should apply to another category.

Only sites that offer hand crafted metal jewelry personally made by the site owner should be submitted here.

Polymer Clay

Jewelry designed from polymer clay or precious metal clay (PMC) which is hand crafted by the site owner.

Precious Metals

Submitt your site to this category if you hand craft jewelry which is primarily made from platinum, karat gold, or sterling silver.

If you create a range of jewelry products made with gold, silver and platinum containing gemstones and/or pearls, consider which jewelry category best describes your site and submit to just one category.

Seed Beads

Jewelry which is hand made with seed and delica beads and offered for sale by the artist who owns the site.

Theme

Hand crafted jewelry with a specific theme - natuical, spiritual, biker, religious.... All must be created, designed and made by the site owner.

Wedding

A category listing jewelry sites that sell handcrafted wedding jewelry.

Sites offering other wedding accessories such as tiaras, fans, and veils should be submitted to /Shopping/Clothing/Formal_Wear/Bridal/Accessories/.

Wire Wrapped

This category is for handcrafted jewelry personally made by the site owner artist by wrapping gemstones and/or cabochons with sterling, gold or gold fill wire.