The seashore is a grand environment for creating weathered jewelry designs. Ancient mariners used to carve images into whalebones and wear those fashion jewelry designs incorporated into solid belt buckles and as crowns for the top of walking canes. The weathered jewelry designs created by our ancestors have been transferred to other pieces of fine jewelry and to art work that adorns the walls of homes throughout the world.

Nautical jewelry items are very popular among naturalists and beach lovers everywhere. People enjoy wearing fashion jewelry shaped from bones and some will wear these body ornaments in their ears or protruding through their belly buttons. The most popular forms of weathered jewelry designs are lighthouses, and people enjoy wearing these nautical symbols as charms on necklaces and some believe that the weathered symbols represent good luck because mariners have used lighthouses to find their way home during terrible storms.

Certain weathered jewelry designs have captured the hearts of millions. Dolphins weather storms all the time while swimming in the deep ocean. These gentle marine mammals are often depicted on weather jewelry items swimming in groups of two or three while fighting large ocean waves. The friendly smiles that adorn these ocean creatures faces are depicted on all types of weathered jewelry designs. People feel better when these smiles are viewed and others enjoy seeing fashion jewelry designs with dolphins, especially if they are dangling from the ears.

Some weathered jewelry is a bit grainy and realistic and serves to remind wearers of fun days at the beach. Fashion jewelry designers have used beach sand to create weathered jewelry designs that are a constant reminder to the wearer that their feet are on solid ground. Some grains of beach sand are crafted into fashion jewelry items using globes of glass to create a memory of the nautical beauty that surrounded beachgoers during a recent vacation. Those grains of sand are frozen in time and many will be discovered years later at the bottom of a jewelry box.

High fashion might influence weathered jewelry designs at times. People love wearing reminders of things found during a walk on the beach. Weathered jewelry designs could incorporate the shape of starfish as they lie in the sand or the starfish can be embodied into the designs of silver or gold jewelry items that people wear around their neck. Many fine jewelry lovers prefer to show their love for ocean by having starfish imprinted into signet ring designs that are worn on many digits of the hand. Those jewelry designs that depict starfish as pendants are highly sought after by the jewelry buyers under the age of thirty.

Many weathered jewelry designs will contain drawings of whales, dolphins, and crab. The ocean provides the artistic supplies for many jewelry pieces and artistic designers are responsible for creating designs that combine these images. Weathered jewelry designs can be molded, glued or drawn onto canvas or molten metal mediums. Each of the weathered jewelry designs will be a unique creation that at some point will assume a character all its own because it will still have the ability to age gracefully as time goes by.