This category is for sites selling jewelry and jewelry products at retail prices to the general public.

Please note related category links for jewelry manufacturers, jewelry wholesalers and non-shopping jewelry sites.

Please see overall Shopping category guidelines .

Bead and Gemstone

This category is for jewelry sites who primarily sell necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pins, pendants, and anklets or other jewelry items that are made using common, man-made and gemstone beads.

If your site sells a combination of different jewelry items, such as bead jewelry and/or sterling silver jewelry and/or watches, select just the one category which best fits your overall site and submit there.

Do not submitt your site to every category for which you have jewelry products. Duplicate listings and mirror sites will be deleted.

Body

For sites that sell mostly non-body piercing jewelry. Please submit sites selling mostly piercing jewelry in the sub category "Piercing"

Costume

This category is just for costume jewelry made with vermeil, gold plate, silver plate, sterling silver and vermeil or other base metals such as copper or brass.

Most costume jewelry will incorporate synthetic or imitation gemstones, however natural gemstones are often used with the lessor metals. Another common term used to describe this jewelry is: faux jewelry.

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 category which best matches the site's overall theme.

Sites that offer strictly wholesale jewelry should submit to /Business: Consumer Goods and Services: Jewelry: Wholesale and Distribution.

And sites that manufacture jewelry for the jewelry trade should submit to Business: Consumer Goods and Services: Jewelry.

Diamonds

This section will include sites whose main focus is to offer diamond related merchandise, to the end customers.

Directories

This category lists sites which are directories of jewelry shopping related sites or are jewelry "shopping malls."

Directories and malls categorize their listings and users generally drill down through categories from general to specific to find the shopping sites they are looking for. Must offer a variety of different types of jewelry in several different jewelry categories.

Estate and Collectible

Estate Jewelry is a general term for jewelry that has been owned by others.

Collectible jewelry is a term used for vintage jewelry, often known as Art Noveau, Victorian, and Edwardian.

Sites offering these types of jewelry should be submitted here.

If you also offer other types of jewelry choose the jewelry category which best describes your overall site or submit it to the top level of Shopping/Jewelry. Do not submit your site to multiple categories. Duplicate submissions, listings and mirror sites will be deleted.

Ethnic and Regional

Sites in this category sell ethnic and regional jewelry. Subcategories have been created for African, Celtic, Indian 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.

Fine Art

This category is for original designer art jewelry usually made with precious metals and/or gems, but often with a metal mix including copper and/or brass.

The jewelry sites listed here should be of the same artistic level and quality as that found in top fine art galleries and fine juried art shows. Hand crafted one of a kind work from a well designed and professional web site or high end designer jewelry will be the norm.

Jewelry created with commercial mountings, production jewelry, jewelry sold on TV shopping networks, through major department stores, mass mail order catalogs, or jewelry with a more commercial appeal should apply under other more appropriate categories.

Handcrafted

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.

Pearls

This category houses sites that primarily offer pearl jewelry for sale. Pearls may be natural, fresh water, South Sea, or cultured.

Precious Metals

Category listing of jewelry made from platinum, karat gold, or sterling silver with or without gemstones.

Supplies

For suppliers of jewelry findings and components, tools, materials, metals and loose stones/gemstones offering their products to the general public.

Please review the sub category descriptions and choose the best overall category to list the site. Duplicate listings and mirror sites will be deleted.

Manufacturers or wholesalers who sell strictly to the jewelry trade should submit their sites to:

/Business/Industries/Manufacturing/Consumer_Products/Jewelry/

or

/Business/Industries/Wholesale/Jewelry/

Manufacturers and wholesalers who also sell to the general public from their site will be listed in this category and will not be listed in both /Shopping and the /Business categories.

Theme

Jewelry with a specific theme such as nature, animals, personalized, angels, motorcycle or religious.

Please note the various sub categories under Shopping/Jewelry/Theme.

Varied Merchandise

Sites offering a variety of jewelry specific merchandise belong in this category. An example would be a site offering wedding bands, various gemstones, bracelets, watches, and sterling silver charms. Sites that can be classified into any of the other more specific jewelry categories should be listed there. This category is for sites that are not specific enough to belong in the other existing subcategories.

Watches

Web sites that focus on the sale of watch and watch accessories. The sites must offer shopping capability.

Wedding

This category is for sites that sell only wedding and engagement jewelry.

If you offers more than wedding jewelry, please do not submit here. Submit only to one jewelry category.

Sites offering other wedding accessories such as tiaras, fans, and veils will not be listed in this category unless those products are incidental to wedding jewelry. If the main focus is tiaras and wedding accessories the site should be submitted to /Shopping/Clothing/Formal_Wear/Bridal/Accessories/.