Melee Screening 101: How to Screen Melee for Lab-Grown Salting in Your Parcels
If you set pavé, halos, tennis bracelets, or eternity bands, you buy melee by the parcel, not the stone. That is exactly where the industry's quietest liability lives.
Expert articles on lab-grown diamonds, wholesale sourcing strategies, and the latest trends shaping the jewelry industry.
If you set pavé, halos, tennis bracelets, or eternity bands, you buy melee by the parcel, not the stone. That is exactly where the industry's quietest liability lives.
Most independent jewelers cannot afford to put 40,000 diamonds in a case.
Every jeweler eventually outgrows their first supplier — the certs stop matching, a "matched pair" arrives visibly off, a memo turns into a collections call.
If you buy diamonds wholesale, the most useful thing to understand about the 2026 diamond tariffs impact on jewelers is what it changes about where your goods sit when the duty is assessed — not the h
If your case is built around round brilliants and a few princess cuts, you are looking at the inventory profile that defined 2018, not the one converting in 2026.
The antique-cut revival is the single strongest consumer-facing trend in fine jewelry right now.
If you sell to the vintage-bridal buyer, you have probably watched a client point at a celebrity engagement ring and say "I want that look" — and then watched the sale stall because nobody in the room
If you sell to vintage-bridal clients, you already know the problem: the customer walks in with a Pinterest board full of "old, glowy, not-too-sparkly" rings and you have a case full of modern round b
Custom diamond jewelry for jewelers without a bench is fully achievable: partner with a wholesale supplier running an outsourced custom studio.