Starting with earrings (which only real skilled artisans could blow - and they were pretty costly owing to that) and moving on to pendants, glass became the material of choice in the manufacture of fashion jewelry. After gold and diamonds started ruling the roost, jewelers have always been on the lookout for something more economical so that everyone could afford studded jewelry. Thus came the concept of semi precious. Once the method of making different shapes from glass was perfected, it was just a matter of time before someone came up with the idea of using the technique to make jewelry. Let's pause here and go further back in time, we all know that the concept of jewelry itself is almost as old as the history of man. All through the tibold man phase, people have been using items as unique as bones and teeth to decorate their bodies; but we will not consider them as fashion jewelry as it was not intended that way. A Loose History of Fashion Jewelry Probably the first time fashion jewelry appeared was in the dall 1700s.

That was the era of glass blowing.