This category is for websites that focus on the sale of loose beads and beading supplies for jewelry making.
If the site offers a variety of jewelry supplies it should be listed in the topmost /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies category.
Please find the single most appropriate category and list the site only once.
Features sites that offer cleaning products, either solutions or mechanisms, that clean jewelry.
Features sites that sell containers and displays specifically for jewelry.
This category is for sites that offer various components used in jewelry making: clasps, settings, metal and gemstone beads (see Note #1 below about loose gemstones), thread and cords, chains, catches, watch batteries and other parts.
Stock metals such as sheet and wire belong in /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/Metals/
Note #1: Beads made from gemstones and sold individually or in hanks belong in /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/Beads/, while loose gemstones in either rough, faceted or cabochon form belong in: /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/Gemstones/
A site that offers any combination of these items should be submitted to the top level of Supplies: /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/
Sites that primarily sell finished jewelry incorporating gemstones in their design should submit to a more appropriate shopping category such as /Shopping/Jewelry/ or its sub-categories. Suppliers who restrict their purchasers to Trade Only, or who require occupational licenses or large lots should submit their sites to: /Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Jewelry/ or /Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Jewelry/Wholesale_and_Distribution/
This category is for suppliers of loose gemstones, pearls, and gemstone rough used to fabricate finished jewelry. Vendors listed here sell individual stones, or in small lots, online to the general public.
The Hand Tool category is a sub category for sites that offer jewelry making hand tools. Vendors offering a variety of tools and machinery should submit to the top level of Supplies:
/Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/
The Machinery sub category of supplies is for sites offering large machinery to the general public. Small hand tools should be submitted to /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/Hand_Tools/.
Manufacturers or wholesalers selling large machinery to the jewelry trade should submit their sites to:
/Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Jewelry/Wholesale_and_Distribution/
or
/Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Jewelry/
This category is for vendors offering raw metal materials (platinum, gold, silver, copper, brass, etc.) in the form of sheet, wire, casting grain.
Pre made components in the form of clasps, ring shanks, jump rings, settings, etc. should be submitted to: /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/Findings/
Please do not submit to more than one category, duplicate and mirror sites will be deleted. If the site offers a variety of products, either choose the best overall category match or submit to the top level of supplies: /Shopping/Jewelry/Supplies/
- Open Directory Shopping: Crafts: Jewelry: Supplies