When you see a spectacular piece of jewellery resting upon a graceful neck, immediately, you experience a desire to touch, to admire. Human beings have always had more than a passing interest in objects lumped under the enormous jewellery umbrella. Then of course there's that familiar clichéd constantly doing the rounds in your brain that only a jeweler’s son or daughter can make it in this profession, and there's no scope for anybody else. That's where you are quite wrong.

Jewellery designing, as a career, may have been once limited to the traditional kaarigars (who mostly played the dual role of designer-cum-manufacturer) but with the global upsurge, which brought in its wake changing perceptions of what jewellery should mean to a woman; came the demand for professionally trained and qualified jewellery designers, at par with international standards. This is not to say that the traditional craftsman does not stand today. Where the trained designer scores over the kaarigar is that the former is aware of trends, and the specifics of jewellery designing. And it's no longer only about carving design on metal, because avenues like marketing and production, or even tapping the vast export market the opportunities are endless and constantly growing. Today jewellery design as a career is steadily grabbing international attention. India has produced award-winning jewellery and accessory designers