JEWELRY POLISHING CLOTHS

Jeweler's Rouge Cloth

This jewelry polishing cloth may not look like much, but it is really the best accessory for the sterling silver jewelry owner! The cloth is impregnated with jeweler's rouge (an extremely fine polishing compound) on one side. The other side is used to buff the silver or gold once the tarnish removal and polishing has been completed. You can use the jewelry polishing cloth without fear of harming semi-precious or precious stones,shell beads,crystal, or whatever else might be a part of your jewelry besides the precious metals. You can polish silver beads that are strung on silk without exposing the silk to a liquid tarnish remover. Even sterling silver and gold-filled chains may be polished with the jewelry polishing cloth. Simply draw the chain gently through the folded cloth and repeat until the chain is free of tarnish. The jewelry polishing cloth will eventually look rather ratty and blackened, but it will continue to work until it is literally worn to threads, so it will last for a very long time.

There are certainly other tarnish removers on the market and it's tempting to try to avoid the work (especially if you have a lot of silver jewelry) by simply dunking your jewelry into a liquid tarnish remover. If you choose to try to clean your silver this way, PLEASE remember that you should never put in jewelry containing any organic materials such as pearls, abalone, mother of pearl, coral, amber, or ivory. Porous stones such as turquoise and malachite should never be put into liquid tarnish re- movers either. Just to give you an idea of what can happen, I'll tell you about one of my own experiences with this stuff. I knew better than to use it on any of the organics or on turquoise, but for some reason it didn't occur to me that malachite is also a very porous stone, and in my hurry to get everything cleaned up just before a craft fair, I dropped a silver and malachite earring into the liquid. FIZZZZZ! It looked like green Alka Seltzer and completely ruined the earring. The glassy looking stones such as garnet and smokey quartz are usually safe, but if there's any doubt, you'll be far better off using the jewelry polishing cloth. Another point in favor of the polishing cloth is that it will not remove the oxidation from recessed areas of your silver. Patterned or engraved jewelry and many cast pieces are purposely oxidized (blackened) in recessed areas in order to better show the design. (If you need to get into a recessed area, I find that sticking a fingernail into the cloth and rubbing with that will do the trick.) For more tips on taking care of your jewelry, please see my blog, It's A Gift

Due to a sharp increase in the wholesale price of this item, we have had to raise our price as well, but are trying to keep the price as low as possible for our customers.

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Sunshine Cloth

You will be pleased to see that we have added another jewelry polishing cloth to give you more options. The "Sunshine Cloth" works in a similar fashion to the jeweler's rouge cloth shown above. One attractive feature of this particular jewelry polishing cloth is that it will NOT leave jeweler's rouge all over your fingers! It works on all kinds of metals and can even be used on hardwoods. Best of all it costs only $4.35. In comparing the two types of jewelry polishing cloths, it is important to note that the "Sunshine Cloth" measures just under five inches by seven and five-eighths inches while the rouge cloth measures nine and three-quarters inches by ten inches.

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