Beads

This category is for websites that focus on the sale of loose beads and beading supplies for jewelry making.

If the site offers a variety of jewelry supplies it should be listed in the topmost Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies category.

Please find the single most appropriate category and list the site only once.

Cleaning

Features sites that offer cleaning products, either solutions or mechanisms, that clean jewelry.

Containers and Displays

Features sites that sell containers and displays specifically for jewelry.

Findings

This category is for sites that offer various components used in jewelry making: clasps, settings, metal and gemstone beads (see Note #1 below about loose gemstones), thread and cords, chains, catches, watch batteries and other parts.

Stock metals such as sheet and wire belong in /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/Metals/

Note #1: Beads made from gemstones and sold individually or in hanks belong in /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/Beads, while loose gemstones in either rough, faceted or cabochon form belong in: /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/Gemstones/

A site that offers any combination of these items should be submitted to the top level of Supplies: /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies

Gemstones

This category is just for retail gemstone and pearl dealers, those who sell stones individually or by lot as finished stones and/or rough materials.

Sites that sell jewelry that incorporates gemstones and pearls in their products should submit their sites to the most appropriate jewelry shopping category.

Please do not submit to more than one category, duplicate and mirror sites will be deleted. If the site offers a variety of products, choose the best overall category match.

Sites that offer wholesale gemstones and/or rough should submit to:

/Business/Industries/Wholesale/Jewelry/

or

/Business/Industries/Manufacturing/Consumer_Products/Jewelry/

Hand Tools

The Hand Tool category is a sub category for sites that offer jewelry making hand tools. Vendors offering a variety of tools and machinery should submit to the top level of Supplies: Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/

Machinery

The Machinery sub category of supplies is for sites offering large machinery to the general public. Small hand tools should be submitted to /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/Hand_Tools/.

Manufacturers or wholesalers selling large machinery to the jewelry trade should submit their sites to:

/Business/Industries/Manufacturing/Consumer_Products/Jewelry/

or

Business/Industries/Wholesale/Jewelry/

Metals

This category is for vendors offering raw metal materials (platinum, gold, silver, copper, brass, etc.) in the form of sheet, wire, casting grain.

Pre made components in the form of clasps, ring shanks, jump rings, settings, etc. should be submitted to: /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/Findings/

Please do not submit to more than one category, duplicate and mirror sites will be deleted. If the site offers a variety of products, either choose the best overall category match or submit to the top level of supplies: /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/