NAME: METAL BASES FOR EARRINGS AND OTHER ACCESSORIES

To make your own accessories, it is important to have certain materials that serve as metal bases or are essential for their correct use. In this section of our online store, you will find them.

One of these elements is, for example, the earring hook. We all know that earrings require a very fine metal piece that is inserted into the hole in the earlobe so the earring can hang from it. Here you will find this type of material with different sizes and designs. Choose the one that best matches your creation.

One of the biggest fears for earring users is that they will fall from the ear and get lost. This is very frustrating, as even if we keep the other earring, we won't be able to use it in the absence of its partner.

These losses are usually due to the earring hook curve not being pronounced enough, which means it easily falls out with movement or when taking off or putting on a garment. To avoid this, earring stoppers are very useful. These stoppers are round pieces with a hole that fix the hook to the ear, preventing it from sliding through the lobe hole.

If you are a fan of creating your own earrings, here you will find what you need, such as our metal bases for earrings as well as metal nuts for earrings.

But it's not all about earrings! Another accessory that can be easily made by hand and is also very beautiful is the brooch. Here we have bases for brooches both with safety pins and with clamps. You can also go for those without any attachment so you can add your favorite one.

WHAT ARE EARRINGS?

Earrings, also known as danglers, studs or hoops, are a type of bodily accessory that is worn using a hook inserted into a hole previously opened and properly healed in the skin.

Earrings are usually placed in the ears, specifically in the soft lower part known as the earlobe. However, today it is common to wear them not only on various parts of the ear but also on other body parts such as the nose, eyebrows, lips, tongue, or navel, among others. These ornaments are called 'piercings'.

Humans have worn earrings for millennia. Remains of people from the Bronze Age who wore simple earrings in their ears and nose have been found.

The pendant earring was often depicted in Assyrian reliefs. Such accessories have been found in the tombs of princesses from Egyptian dynasties XII and XIII and in pharaohs from dynasty XX, among others. Phoenicians, Hebrews, and other Eastern peoples copied these accessories from these two civilizations.

Greeks and Romans also adopted this fashion and improved it by designing richly wrought earrings, with gold hoops and pendants made of pearls, gems, and engraved metal pieces. Their use was reserved for women.

The earrings of large size made with a noble metal hoop and pendants, known by the name of hoop earrings, were also widely used in Antiquity by Egyptians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Etruscans, Celts, and Iberians, among other peoples. The Iberian bust called 'Lady of Elche,' for instance, appears to wear earrings of this type. The gold hoop earrings found in the 'Treasure of Aliseda' are Phoenician made with Assyrian touches.

Today, earrings serve a purely aesthetic function. However, many cultures have also used them as a protective amulet. In some societies, for example, earrings were worn to prevent evil spirits from entering the body through the ears.