Understanding Various Types of Jewelry Clasps
Making and designing jewelry involves making critical decisions along the way. These decisions include selecting the size of your silver, style, color and much more. The most important thing that ignored in most cases is the type of clasp or fastener required for your jewelry. Having a variety of options to choose from, you can quickly select the jewelry clasp of your choice.
The different types of jewelry fasteners include:
- Barrel Clasp
This type of clasp made in such a way that it has a barrel which is used to clasp two ends of a piece of jewelry such as a chain or necklace.
- Lobster Clasp
You might be wondering why this piece of art named after a sea creature, right? Well, this is because it has a hook in the shape of a lobster’s claw attached to one of its ends. It also has a lever connected to it that opens the clasp and closes it upon release.
- Fishhook clasp
This type of fastener is much feebler compared to other clasps.
Fishhook clasp is mostly used for bracelets and necklaces that are light in weight to give the jewelry pieces a fancy look.
- Bead or ball clasp
- Bead or ball clasp is a sphere-shaped jewelry fastener. One of the advantages of using such a clasp in jewelry making is that textures added to the round ball to provide a decorative closure that measures up to the design of the jewelry piece.
- Hook clasp
In order to use a piece of jewelry with such a clasp, you have to hook on or hook off the fastener. It also has a curved structure that holds the loops present in place.
- Slide Clasp
This type of clasp has a closure that has double bars which slide into a locked position.
- Toggle Clasp
This type of fastener has two pieces and a stylized clasp type which usually adds style to the bracelet or necklace.
- Buckle clasp
This type of fastener is usually used in bracelets made of leather, or basically, any other material that penetrated into easily. It has the same working principles as a classic belt buckle.
- Spring-ring clasp
This type of fastener is the earliest clasps invented. Although it is small, it can be highly effective in terms of holding a piece of jewelry on the arm or neck.
- Spring-ring clasp made in such a way that is hollow, having a spring opening that ensures the clasp closed.
- Concealed clasp
For this kind of clasp, you can hardly notice it on a piece’s design.
- Concealed clasp because it is concealed within the jewelry piece so that it doesn’t interfere with the design or appearance of the particular part.
Just so that you don’t under-appreciate this thing called a clasp, it is a mechanism that enhances the ease of putting on or removing a bracelet or necklace without the possibility of damaging them. Some jewelry clasps are hidden as they are not part of the design of a particular piece, while others are an important feature of the design of the jewelry.
Consider visiting sites such as agrainofsand.com/clasps/ to find the perfect clasp dealer to match your pieces of jewelry with the best clasps. It all comes down to your style and preferences.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
