Online Jewellery Shopping Makes Such Obvious Good Sense
When you’re online jewellery shopping for Celtic rings and other fine historically influenced pieces, you will discover more about our heritage here in the Orkneys where many jewelry items are made. The Celts, the Norse and the arts and crafts movement have all added to the variety of stylish collections you can find here.
Last week, for example, islanders have been commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of a man who really made his mark on the landscape of Orkney. He also frequently went around Europe collecting objet d’arts which still grace the beautiful mansion he built when he was the laird on the island of Shapinsay.
David Balfour was the 4th laird of Balfour and Trenaby. He commissioned the best Scottish architect of the day, David Bryce, to construct the castle in 1847, in Scottish baronial style. It’s really a rare example of a calendar house originally planned with 7 turrets, 12 external doors, 52 rooms and 365 sections of window – see what they did there?
At a musical evening in the drawing room of the castle, remembering the life of David Balfour we heard all about his life in the first person from actor Dave Grieve who was dressed in a Victorian laird’s outfit. He told us all about how while the castle was being built, he and his wife Eleanor undertook the ‘grand tour’. They spent a lot of time in Italy and on the way bought many art works with which to decorate their new house. And Italian artisans were hired to design the interiors.
As you are online jewellery shopping on many of the Orkney websites you’ll see how many jewellery designers have done a kind of tour of the best heritage types of ages past, from Celtic rings to Norse brooches and Scottish crafts and arts pendants.
Online Jewellery Shopping For Heirlooms
David Balfour was also a keen collector of Orkney music and songs. A lot of the songs he found were performed by musicians in the castle drawing room last week. Although he brought change to his farm land by properly introducing radical agricultural improvements, he also saw the value of preserving Orkney’s customs through publishing its folk music for posterity.
In a similar fashion you may find several jewellery designers who have recorded our arts and heritage within their jewellery pieces. Without these gatherings of old traditions they would be lost to generations to come. Online jewellery shopping offers the chance to buy family heirlooms for the future, that can be worn with pride now.
Take a look at some unusual items available when you are online jewellery shopping. Choose from traditional designs like Celtic rings or something more contemporary. You will see bargains, no matter what your taste is.
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