Thursday, August 20, 2009

A Glimpse of The Vast World of Cross Necklaces

Sterling silver cross necklaces are the most popular of all Religious or Christian Jewelry. Sterling silver cross necklaces are more popular than Gold Cross necklaces or any other precious metal. True sterling silver is less expensive than gold or other precious metals so jewelry designers work with sterling silver more and thus create an almost endless supply of cross necklaces cast in sterling silver.
In additional to that sterling silver is the most reflective of any precious metal which adds a nice value to cross necklaces.
This post is an small effort to demonstrate all the possible cross necklace designs. To see 100's more sterling silver cross necklaces refer to the Internets single biggest collection of sterling silver cross necklaces; http://www.handcraftedcollectibles.com/.
Here is a small example of what you'll see there:
This heavy duty cross pendant necklace is a favorite with the Men. It is in the Men's Cross necklace collection.


This style of Cross Necklace is one of the over all most popular cross necklaces. It is called a Church cross because many Christian Churches design their churches after this simple style of the cross.


This type of Cross necklace is in the category of decorative cross necklaces. It's patterned of the traditional Latin style of cross but it has artistic elements added to it. This cross represents reed lashed together to make a cross. Kind of like the St. Bridgette cross except this cross isn't irish and has a more traditional shape.



The Dog Tag Cross necklace has become increasing more popular over the last few years. This high shine cross pendant comes with four different necklaces possibilities three sterling silver and one leather.




Sterling Silver Celtic Cross and Irish High Cross Necklaces
Celtic Cross Necklaces are perhaps the most rich in design of any category of cross necklaces. There are Irish Cross Necklaces that have an irish theme and their are irish High Cross Necklaces which is virtually another name for a Celtic cross necklace.



This Celtic cross necklace below is a traditional celtic cross with the circle at the axis of the cross but also has Celtic trinity knots in the design.







This Celtic Cross Necklace is also know as a Celtic Shield of Protection Cross Necklace.








This Celtic Cross necklace is Celtic traditional design in every sense of the word with one exception. Inside the circle of the axis is an Irish Shamrock giving it an extra flare of the irish theme.

This Celtic cross necklace looks a little like a maltese cross but has a circle at the axis and Celtic trinity knots all over it. A unique Celtic Cross necklace.





Celtic/Irish Cross Necklace. This is a great example of a cross necklace with elements from the Celtic design and Irish design.





Extreme detail of a hard line traditional Celtic Cross Necklace. Very artistic, the melding of Christian symbolism with Celticd artistry.




This is a decorative Celtic Cross Necklace is the essence of Celtic crosses.








Crusader and Shield Cross Necklaces
These types of crosses were made famous as decorations of swords and shields during the great crusades and medieval times.









Sterling Silver Filigree Cross Necklace
The filigree cross design fits into many styles of crosses and is a design of its own. Notice these filigree cross necklaces.
















The following is a Sterling silver Heart Cross Necklace.
A cross heart technically falls under the decorative cross necklace category.






Exclusive Personalized Cross Necklaces
This Sterling silver cross necklaces page contains 1000's of variations of cross necklaces with each have a choice of over 150 affirmation charms that are engraved with words. With over 1000's of choices you can essentially design your own unique cross necklace.




Remember this is not all the cross necklaces from WWW.HandCraftedCollectibles.com if you're interested in cross necklaces that is the place to go. I highly recomend it.



















No comments: