Georgian Jewellery
“‘Out of the darkness and into the light!’ is an apt way to describe the emerging fashions and jewels of the Georgian period. Into the light of better candles, the better to show off fabulous real and faux gems of amazing clarity and color. Into the light of less heavy, paler fabrics, thus shedding the dark velvets and brocades of the preceding centuries. Into the light of a profusion of newly discovered diamonds mined in Brazil and finer methods of cutting them so that they sparkled like never before!”
-Georgian Jewellery by Ginny Redington Dawes and Olivia Collings