Journal — Crafting Education

Prongs: Which Type Should You Choose? Designed to safely secure your stone while optimising its appearance and style, basket and cathedral settings rely on the use of prongs to elegantly showcase your divine cultured gemstone, and keep it in place. These very popular choices embody a modern and minimalistic style with typically 4-6  prongs holding the stone in place.  The purpose of these prongs is to provide your beautiful dream ring with the structural integrity to withstand a lifetime of love. Despite how it may visually appear, your choice of the number of prongs does not concern the structural integrity...

Choosing the Right Metal for Your Forever Ring - Him and Her The metal type you choose is key when designing your dream ring. Whether you’re shopping for yourself or a partner, be confident in your choice. At The Moissanite Company, our goal is to provide you with information to help make this decision process, among many others, easier so that no matter which precious metal you choose - it will be perfect for you!  At The Moissanite Company, we craft our rings from four metal types - yellow gold, white gold, rose gold and platinum. Available in differing grades,...

How to choose the Band Width of your ring While our signature style here at The Moissanite Company is renowned for being minimal and dainty, we’ve recently expanded the selections for our Signature range of rings to have three band widths to choose from. Although our new options are slightly wider than our initial 1.6mm band width, they still deliver the simplistic and minimal style that you know and love. If you aren’t sure which band width to select, read on to find out more about the differences and which suits you best! Appearance:One of the biggest considerations to make...

What is Rhodium Plating? Often, most people know what colour metal they like for their jewellery: silver toned white metal, yellow gold toned, or rose gold toned. But when you want a white metal for your engagement ring, a choice needs to be made between white gold and platinum, which visually look very similar. As we explained in our blog ‘What’s the Difference Between White Gold & Platinum?’, a big consideration when choosing between these two white metal options is the maintenance: white gold needs to be regularly re-plated with rhodium, while platinum does not. So, what is rhodium replating?...