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Add Animal Italian Charms to your Jewelry Collection

In the 1990s American tourists noticed the unique and interesting style of Italian charms while traveling aboard.  They brought the style back to the United States where the style quickly gained popularity.  Created in Italy, Italian charms are made up of individual pieces that are soldered onto flat, modular links.  These links are hooked together to make bracelets, watches, key chains, and other accessories. There are endless designs for the charms.  Animal and pet lovers can even create bracelets from animal Italian charms.  They can have digital, photographic images of their pets burned onto the face of the charge; thus creating animal Italian charms that are exact replicas of their beloved pets.

For those who like jewelry, Italian charms are a fun and creative way to express themselves.  They are just as fun or more fun than traditional charms and have brought a new look to charms. Traditional charms hang from a chain such as a bracelet or necklace.  However, Italian charms are individual pieces that are soldered onto a flat, modular link.  These links are hooked together to make jewelry and other accessories such as bracelets, watches, and key chains.  The pieces come in all shapes, sizes, designs, and colors.  They can be mixed and matched to make a truly unique piece of jewelry.

Until eight to ten years ago, Italian charms were virtually unheard of in the United States.  However, since their introduction, they have taken off like a whirlwind.  The craze that started on the West Coast has made its way to the East Coast. Because Italian charms can include almost any picture including custom made pictures, animal and pet lovers can make bracelets and other jewelry of their beloved pets or favorite animals.

There are many different styles of animal Italian charms including the following:

1. Hand-painted Italian charms are created individually using enamel paints and epoxy coating.

2. Laser Italian charms, which are usually etched designs, letters, or words, are made of stainless steel.  This style can be easily customized to include names or phrases that are not found in regular stock.

3. X2 Italian charms that Pugster manufactures feature double thick enamel.  This allows the image to have more depth and finer detail.

4. Photo Italian charms are actual digital, photographic images that are burned onto the face of the charm.  This technique is great for making animal Italian charms because it can be customized.

For animal lovers who are looking to create the perfect bracelets using animal Italian charms, getting started is quite easy. They would purchase a starter bracelet that consists of eighteen blank links.  To personalize the bracelet, they would replace the blank links, one by one with designs of pets or animals.  The fun part about the process is that the links can be replaced allowing people to create different bracelets for different styles, outfits, occasions, or moods.

The link bases for charms are made from various materials; however, link bases for the original charm bracelets manufactured in Italy were made of high quality stainless steel, and usually had 18K gold charms smoldered on top.

Some people may be more interested in creating a charm bracelet that reflects their faith.  There are many charms that are made into religious symbols and deities.  Animal religious gold charms such as doves can symbolize a person’s connection with a higher power.

There are several manufacturers of animal Italian charms. Unodomani, Brunoz Zanetti, Puzzle Talexia, and Roma are amongst the top manufacturers.  Fortunately, most Italian charms are interchangeable with modulars made by other manufacturers.  Of course, price varies with the manufacturer and the quality of the charms.  High quality stainless steel and gold charms range in price from $15 to $50.  On the other hand, some charms are as little as $1.95.

If you have a beloved pet and like to wear jewelry, creating animal Italian charms bracelet might be something that you are interested in doing.

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