The Cross Necklace

THE CROSS NECKLACE

The cross necklace started out over 1400 years ago as a hand carved piece of wood or bone fastened to a rope or leather strip. As the cross necklace gained popularity the design of the cross necklace improved and became more decorative. Futher, as the cross necklace grew in acceptance and popularity. Those who could afford it like royality made fancy decorative cross necklaces from precious metals like gold and silver.

In recent history of necklace wearing, the silver cross necklace has exploded in various decorative and symbolic designs and specialties. For instance the "Cross Necklaces for Men" category specializes in various sterling silver cross necklaces for men.

The Cross necklaces for men are not always but typically masculine shaped and larger cross pendants. The reality of purchasing a silver cross necklace is that regardless of the way the cross necklace is marketed, if someone see's it and likes it, they will buy it. The primary emphasis on the silver cross necklace is the cross pendant.

Christians look more to the cross pendants because of the Cross symbolism than they do on the style. They see a cross first and then they look at the silver cross necklace. In fact, studies have shown that the type of chains is secondary to picking out a mens cross necklace. The first thing men look for is the mens cross pendants.

If they find a mens cross necklace and like the cross pendat well enough and they don't get to choose the type of chain they will buy it most of the time. At HandCraftedCollectibles.com, they decided that even though this was partially true it wasn't the way it should be. When someone is looking for a mens cross necklace and they see a mens cross pendant, they can choose from three types of sterling silver necklace chains.

So whether you are looking for a silver Celtic cross necklace or a mens cross necklace you can have four lengths of sterling silver necklace chains to choose from and three styles of the necklace chain to choose from. Thats twelve choices of chain for one mens cross pendant. You'll get exactly what you want.

While we are on the topic of HandCraftedCollectibles.com, it should be mentioned that they have around 17,000 sterling silver cross necklaces to choose from. To explain why they have such a large selection of silver cross necklaces look at this example: In shopping for Cross necklaces for men, you can find different genres under the heading of cross necklaces for men like a Celtic cross necklace, fleur de lys cross necklace, a filigree cross necklace or a crusaders cross necklace.

It is their stated mission to dress all of christianity in Christian and Cross jewelry and the cross necklace is the most popular type of Christian jewelry. Thus the worlds largest collection of sterling silver cross necklaces.

The Celtic cross necklace is a highly symbolic and highly decorative silver cross necklace. The Celtic cross necklace genre has many appealing styles of cross necklaces like the mens cross necklace, the Claddagh Cross necklace and Irish cross necklace.