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Thank you for your visit. On this croatian.jewelry site, I will present my family jewelry craft by blog posts related to traditional croatian jewelry.
Jewelry-related topics will be interlaced with those related to my love for nature and photography which I would also like to share with you.
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Greetings from Croatia,
We are family craft, based and working from the little village near Pula ( Croatia ). With almost 50 years of experience in jewelry making, specialized in making handmade traditional Dubrovnik / Croatian jewelry, as well as wide range of jewelry styles made of natural Mediterranean coral, freshwater pearl, and various natural gemstones.
Our work has been recognized and rewarded with “Authentically Croatian” Certificate by Dubrovnik destination management, while we had our “brick and mortar” shop in Dubrovnik old town, and jewelry gallery in Istrian town Grožnjan- “the town of artists”.
Due to ever-growing trend of shifting the jewelry market to online marketplaces, we have decided to move online.
We are now available on marketplaces specialized in handmade jewelry such as the Etsy and Amazon Handmade, as well as here – At our official WebShop & Blog related to traditional Croatian jewelry.
All of our jewelry is made from precious metals:
Mainly sterling silver and solid 14k gold, with only recent addition of jewelry made from gold-plated sterling silver.
On our WebShop There are separate shop section for each type, and material is clearly specified in every listing.
Great care is taken to accurately represent each piece of jewelry to you. Our listings contain detailed description, with detailed measurements and close-up photos of the jewelry in question.
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Processing of Mediterranean coral:
This is beautiful and very rewarding, yet meticulous, mostly manual time-consuming work.
As you can see on one of the about-us photos, coral-material from which the beads and branches are extracted, is very different in its natural form, from the final product.
Mediterranean coral is rare, very small in size, and due to the climate-changes, prone to coral diseases and parasites.
To be able to extract it from the sea, one has to have special, government issued license, with yearly-limits, as well as special diving equipment and diving experience, as it is located deeper and deeper every year.
After this, it takes skill and much time to process raw coral material into the jewelry-making material.
Branches are cleaned, cut, formed, and polished several times until they become suitable to make the jewelry out of them.
Because of all this, jewelry made from Mediterranean coral is unique and valuable.
All of the coral used in our jewelry is manually processed and not chemically treated in order to enhance its surface smoothness and color.
Coral branches that we have on offer are either fine polished to high-gloss finish or polished to satin finish for closer to natural surface look.
Thank you for your visit, this section will be regularly updated with new material.
Lately, We have been busy in the workshop working on a new batch of Croatian traditional filigree earrings, so sharing a couple of photos of the finished earrings. These earrings ( locally known as “košarice” ) are part of the 17th century traditional Croatian jewelry typical for the Split region in Dalmatia. They were traditionally …
Hello, Shown on the above photo are samples of the large and nicely-formed Mediterranean coral branches which were on display in a jewelry gallery. Harvesting of the Mediterranean coral is officially regulated in order to achieve non-intensive exploitation. Mediterranean coral is usually very small in size, and due to the climate-changes, prone to coral diseases …
Hello, Dino here I am current owner of the Traditum jewelry craft which I have inherited from my parents. My father started to design and create jewelry in his teenage and has continued doing this for nearly 50 years along with my mother. Same as with the jewelry for which We were rewarded with an …
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