
Reviving Handcrafted Jewellery In Sri Lanka
The island of Sri Lanka is world famous for its natural gemstone deposits and for exporting these precious stones to the rest of the globe. But it also has a time-honoured jewellery tradition of its own that dates right back to Antiquity. However, this trade has not always received the appreciation it deserves, and the island’s precious-metal artisans gradually gave up their craft until, in the last century, it all but disappeared.