Blogs - Yashti Jewelers

Friday's sangeet is supposed to wrap up at midnight. It never does. By then the cousins are still working through a fourth dance number, somebody's uncle has taken over the microphone, and the bag everyone packed so carefully has been sitting on a chair since nine. That's the thing ab....

Gift shopping during festival season tends to follow a pattern. Sweets arrive first, then clothes, and jewelry gets left for the last week, when choices feel rushed. A better starting point is something with a function, like a handcrafted kumkum box, since it gets used at every puja, every year. ....

A few pieces command attention the moment someone enters a room. Other pieces wait to be noticed, and those are often the ones people remember. Darkened metal with a weathered, hand-worked look belongs to the second group. Over the past few years, silver oxidized jewelry has moved from festival stal....

Picture a sangeet where two guests stand side by side in nearly identical red lehengas. One appears to have stepped out of a palace painting. The other seems to be wearing the entire jewelry box at once. The difference is not the budget. It is restraint, and it explains why rajwadi jewelry holds suc....

Scroll through enough wedding boards and the look starts repeating itself. Stacked Kundan necklaces. Deep jewel tones. That heavy, regal, almost old-world bridal style. It shows up on nearly every mood board a bride puts together these days, sometimes without her even realizing where the look origin....

Most brides hit the same wall while planning their jewelry. There are dozens of gorgeous Kundan sets to choose from, but almost nothing telling them which one actually fits their wedding week. Kundan necklaces come in so many styles that narrowing down the right one can feel harder than it should. A....

Ask around at any Indian wedding and the same story comes up. Somebody bought a real diamond set for one big event, wore it twice, and now it sits in a locker. Meanwhile, the cousin in the AD set got just as many compliments and wore hers to three more parties. That's the appeal of AD/CZ ethnic ....

Every jewelry box has a small archive sitting inside it. A bracelet from someone's wedding. Another bought on a birthday, half on impulse. One that was never meant to be a favourite but became one anyway, just from being worn too often to put back. Bracelets do this better than most jewelry. ....

Trends come and go, but Pachi Kundan jewelry doesn't really follow that cycle. Walk into any wedding season and you'll still see it on necklines, at sangeets, at festival gatherings, decades after it was supposedly "in." There's a reason for that. The craft itself is old enough....

Ten minutes before the reception, and something's off even though the jewelry's on and the drape is pinned exactly right. Usually it's the bag. Or the wrong bag, still sitting in a drawer somewhere, while a random black clutch that doesn't match a thing gets grabbed on the way out th....

Anyone who has tried to put together a full ethnic look knows the drill. The necklace comes from one store, the earrings don't quite match, and the bangles end up being a compromise because nothing in the right style was actually in stock anywhere. Yashti Jewelers has built its a ethnic jewelry ....

Every woman has a piece she reaches for when an outfit needs something more. For a lot of women, that's kundan. Maybe it's the necklace she saved for her wedding day. Maybe it's a smaller choker worn to three weddings already, still getting compliments. Kundan jewellery sets are a person....