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At JewelPin, we have been manufacturing silver gemstone brooches for years in our in-house manufacturing unit.
The metal we use is 925 sterling silver, and natural stones that are cut in our unit. So you can expect unwavering quality from the sample piece to placing orders in bulk. The demand for the brooches remains steady throughout the year, and so does production at our unit. From a few pieces to hundreds or thousands of pieces, retailers of all sizes in the USA can trust us.
Flowers cover most of what we make here. Petals with the stone set inside them, leaf shapes done in the greens like apatite and chrome diopside, and a few pieces where the flower and the leaf are combined into one body. The floral group also carries the widest stone options, several of the designs offering a long list of stones to choose from on the page.
After the flowers come the animals and the insects. A deer and a bee are the two running now.
The classic brooches have no motif at all. One stone held in a plain silver frame, and these are the pieces carrying the biggest stones of the collection.
Then there are the fancy shape brooches, where the free shape or the fancy cut of the stone decides the shape of the whole piece, along with one evil eye brooch made with a blue diamond, and the two diamond designs, one floral and one built on double cut diamonds.
Behind the body of every brooch, there are three parts, and all of them are made in silver at our unit.
The pin, which passes through the cloth
The joint, on which the pin turns
The catch, which closes over the point once the pin is through
The small floral pieces get the plain catch, where the pin slides into a hook and sits there. Heavier designs and anything with a bigger stone get the locking catch, the one with a collar that turns over the pin after it is inside. If a design is listed with the plain catch and the locking one is wanted on your lot, the change is done at the back, and the front of the brooch stays exactly as shown.
Every brooch page carries the weight in grams. On a brooch, that number should be read more carefully than it is on a pendant, because the piece is hanging off two small holes in the fabric with nothing else supporting it.
A pin which is too long for the body will let the brooch tip forward once it is worn, so the pin length is worked out against the body size at the design stage and not afterwards.
Where the stone is heavy, the silver at the back of the body is thinned, and a slightly thicker pin is used. The heavier designs suit the stores selling knitwear and coat-weight fabric, and the lighter floral pieces are the safer stock for a shop whose customers are buying for fine cloth.
The gold-plated brooches sit as a separate line with their own item codes, at present in Swiss blue topaz, Ethiopian opal, garnet, and one white freshwater pearl design. The plating goes right over the pin, the joint, and the catch, so the back of the piece matches the front when a customer turns it around on your counter. The gold tone is held the same from one lot to the next.
Stones running in the brooch collection at present.
Garnet, ruby, and rhodolite
African amethyst and Brazilian amethyst
Citrine, Madeira citrine, and lemon topaz
Swiss blue topaz, apatite, and blue kyanite
Chrome diopside and green onyx
Tanzanite and Ethiopian opal
Black onyx and black spinel
White freshwater pearl
White diamond, blue diamond, and double cut diamonds
Where a piece has been made with double cut diamonds, the facet count on the stone is lower than a full cut, which is usual at this size, and it is stated on that product page.
More of our brooch business is custom than in any other silver item we make. Buyers usually come with the shape already fixed in their head, and that makes this category an easier one for us to work on.
Send the motif in whatever form you have it, a drawing, a photograph, or a picture of an old piece. We make it in silver first and send it across to you before anything is produced in numbers. The stone for each part of the motif is picked by you at that stage, and there is generally one round of correction on the model before it is passed.
An existing design can be taken in a different stone as well, or made bigger or smaller than the page shows, and in that case the pin and the joint are reset for the new size. Costing, along with the delivery days, comes to you once the model has been approved. There is no big first order asked for on the custom brooches.
There is no ring size to be split here and no pair to be matched, which makes ordering in this category simpler than the rest of our catalog. One piece is one line on your order.
Most of the stores in the USA are taking one or two designs and keeping more designs on the counter instead of depth in any single one. The full collection can be bought on that basis, and no separate quantity condition is applied to brooches.
Ready pieces are dispatched as they are. Anything out of stock goes into production against your order, and the days are told to you when the order is confirmed. Since these designs stay on the list for years, a piece which sells well in your store can be repeated later in the same stone and the same finish.