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Please find the most appropriate sub-category for the site. Submitting it to the proper sub-category (e.g. a site selling watches should be submitted to Shopping/Jewellery/Watches) will speed the review process. Find the single most appropriate category for the site. With few exceptions, sites will only be listed once in the directory.

Submit the site using the main URL. Use the legal name of the company as the site title.

Create a brief description describing what the site offers for sale. This should be the current content of the site (not the future content). Marketing verbiage will be removed.

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This category is for sites selling jewellery and jewellery products at retail prices to the general public in the UK.

Please note related category links for jewellery manufacturers, jewellery wholesalers and non-shopping jewellery sites.

Please see overall Shopping category guidelines .


Amber

Websites that sell jewelry made of amber should be submitted here.
Amber is a fossilized resin that is hard and can be polished.

Bead and Gemstone

If your site sells a combination of different jewellery items, such as bead jewellery and/or sterling silver jewellery and/or watches, select just the one category which best fits your overall site and submit there.

Do not submitt your site to every category for which you have jewellery products. Duplicate listings and mirror sites will be deleted.

This category is for jewellery sites primarily selling necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pins, pendants, and anklets or other jewellery items that are made using common, man-made and gemstone beads.

Body

For sites that selling body jewellery.

Charms

Jewellery with a focus on charms, and charm bracelets. Stores that sell charm jewellery to the retail public and offer a price list.

Costume

This category is just for costume jewellery made with vermeil, gold plate, silver plate, sterling silver and vermeil or other base metals such as copper or brass.

Most costume jewellery will incorporate synthetic or imitation gemstones, however natural gemstones are often used with the lessor metals.

Diamonds

This section will include sites whose main focus is to offer diamond related merchandise, to the end customers.

Estate and Collectible

Estate Jewellery is a general term for jewellery that has been owned by others.

Collectible jewellery is a term used for vintage jewellery, often known as Art Noveau, Victorian, and Edwardian.

Sites offering these types of jewellery and/or antique jewellery should be submitted here.

Ethnic and Regional

Sites in this category sell ethnic and regional jewellery.

Fine Art

Submit only sites presenting handcrafted, generally one-of-a-kind jewellery items of gallery or juried art show quality. In most cases, the site will identify the artists or artists responsible for the designs. Remember, however, that this is a Shopping category. Items on the web site, or their facsimiles, should be offered for sale.

This category is for original designer art jewellery usually made with precious metals and/or gems, but often with a metal mix including copper and/or brass.

The jewellery sites listed here should be of the same artistic level and quality as that found in top fine art galleries and fine juried art shows. Handcrafted one of a kind work from a well designed and professional web site or high end designer jewellery will be the norm.

Jewellery created with commercial mountings, production jewellery, jewellery sold on TV shopping networks, through major department stores, mass mail order catalogs, or jewellery with a more commercial appeal should apply under other more appropriate categories.

Handcrafted

This category includes sites that sell jewellery that is handcrafted by a number of artisans.

Pearls

Please submit sites to this category only for retailers that handle primarily pearl jewellery.
This category houses sites that primarily offer pearl jewellery for sale. Pearls may be natural, fresh water, or cultured.

Precious Metals

You may submit your site to this category if you offer only jewellery made with precious metals. If you also offer watches, fashion or costume jewellery, estate jewellery or jewellery with various themes, please check the categories listed under Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/Jewellery and submit to the most appropriate category.
Category listing of jewellery made from platinum, karat gold, or sterling silver with or without gemstones.

Supplies

For suppliers of jewellery findings and components, tools, materials, metals and loose stones/gemstones offering their products to the general public.

Theme

Jewellery with a specific theme such as nature, animals, personalised, angels, motorcycle or religious.

Varied Merchandise

Jewellery sites should be submitted to the one, most appropriate jewellery category, using the root URL. Do not submit various deeplinks to each category pertaining to that product, as they will not be listed.

Sites offering a variety of jewellery specific merchandise belong in this category. An example would be a site offering wedding bands, various gemstones, bracelets, watches, and sterling silver charms.

Sites that can be classified into any of the other more specific jewellery categories should be listed there. This category is for sites that are not specific enough to belong in the other existing subcategories.

Watches

Web sites that focus on the sale of watch and watch accessories. The sites must offer shopping capability.

Wedding

Please note:

Duplicate submissions of listed sister site(s) or copies of your site will NOT be listed and may lead to your original listed being REMOVED from the directory.
This category is for sites that sell wedding jewellery. Sites in this category will sell a variety of wedding jewellery including engagement rings and bands, tiaras, and accessories.

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