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3 results for “Minamata Convention” in Craft
Craft · 22 July 2026
Hallmarks and Assay: How Anyone Proves Gold Is Gold
…enforcement funding falls, the mark degrades from a verified statement into a decorative convention. · That erosion is gradual and largely invisible to buyers, which is precisely the danger. A system like this works because it is boringly reliable; it stops working the moment th…
Yusuf Demir · 15 min read
Craft · 5 June 2026
The Alchemy of Craft: What Goldsmiths Know That Machines Don't
…dsmiths per capita anywhere, serving both a domestic culture in which gold jewellery is a conventional store of value and gift, and international wholesale buyers. Smaller specialist pockets persist elsewhere for particular reasons: Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter as a legacy of B…
Yusuf Demir · 16 min read
Craft · 3 August 2026
The Wedding-Season Bid: How Jewellery Demand Sets the Floor
…ntial bar-and-coin component absent from India's overwhelmingly ornamental market. Purity convention — 24-karat is the default retail expectation in China; 22-karat dominates Indian retail, with 24-karat reserved mostly for coins and investment bars. Policy lever — India manages…
Yusuf Demir · 15 min read
