Jewellery Quarter News

   Aiming to attract a new market for fashion-led, diamond jewellery, Fei Liu Fine Jewellery will offer diamond luxury at an affordable price. The collection will feature tiny, diamond-set fuchsia flowers draped across delicate frames of 18ct white gold. They will be set with smaller-sized, brilliant diamonds from the Argyle mine in Australia, more typically associated with rare pink diamonds. The emphasis of the collection is on the designer aspect of fine jewellery. Five designers…

The Lord Mayor of Birmingham Councillor Mike Leddy recently visited The Birmingham Assay Office along with his wife the Lady Mayoress - Pauline Leddy. The Lord Mayor is no stranger to the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham as he began is working life working for a manufacturing jewellery company learning the trade of a jeweller, including setting, mounting, diamond milling and polishing.  Councillor Mike Leddy's life then led him to take up a position with Lucas where he remained for th…

Artem Grafonov, Marketing Assistant, The Birmingham Assay Office hard at work setting up for the exhibition[/caption] The Birmingham Assay Office were pleased to promote their many services and in particular their upcoming 'Help with Hallmarks' app (Coming soon...watch this space!!) Other exhibitors on show included Cooksons Precious Metals, Betts, Sutton Tools and H S Walsh.

  A collection of Arabesque-inspired rings has helped Hannah Kimber win this year’s Gemvision Matrix Award. Kimber is a graduate of the Birmingham City University School of Jewellery. The student award recognises not only creative design and craftsmanship, but also the use of Matrix CAD software. Gemvision’s Graham Dicks, one of the judges, said: “Hannah shows great understanding of the sophisticated design techniques of Matrix with her beautiful collection and she…