How To Wholesale Gemstone Beads For Your Jewelry Projects In 2023?
How to wholesale gemstone beads for jewelry projects? The answer is to find the quality factory manufacturer of the product you need from the jewelry manufacturing industry base!
In this article we will tell you:
- How to find the trending gemstones of 2023?
- What do you need to know before sourcing a product?
- How to find the best manufacturer for wholesale gemstone beads?
- Where are the main jewelry markets and where is the biggest jewelry manufacturing base in China?
- 10 Natural gemstone beads for jewelry making
How to find the trending gemstone of 2023?
Before we start our new jewelry project, we need to know well about the trends in the world, such as this year’s popular color, and the current most popular jewelry styles, and even need to know the popular clothing. By knowing them, we get to know what jewelry materials we are going to prepare. We can obtain the most fashionable information through the following ways:
- Check on Pantone to get the trending color
- Advertisements from famous jewelry brands
- Famous fashion magazines
- See what movie and TV stars are wearing
- The latest products from famous jewelry brand companies
- The most popular jewelry styles online
By Pantone trending color, we know this year, the Pantone color institute has selected the eye-catching and vibrant hue of Viva Magenta as its choice for 2023. This selection marks a shift away from muted and neutral tones to more expressive, energetic shades.
So we get to know the trending jewelry bead is Red Gemstone Beads. And we need to collect the red gemstone beads and through them we will pick up some for our jewelry design. The red gemstone beads have Ruby, Tourmaline, Garnet, Rhodonite, Rhodochrosite, Red strawberry quartz, red spinel, etc.
Last year the popular Pantone color was Very Peri. And we have seen the purple gemstone beads like Amethyst, Lepidolite, purple phantom quartz, Tanzanite were sold very well. Throughout 2022, we had been making various orders for amethyst beads.
What do you need to know before choosing a product?
In addition to what we said above to understand fashion trends, we also need to study our customer groups. For example, what is the price range of our products? We need to provide our customers with affordable jewelry. So our budget decides our materials.
We also need to learn from our competitors, knowing their products. Refer to what they do well and improve what they do not make well, for example, add a smiley face accessory on the bracelet or laser a word of encouragement in the pendant; Use a special clasp than our competitors; Make new productions on the base of the classic design; Except to make the good quality of the product itself, we also need to do a good job in details. We need to try our best to make our products unique.
How to find the best manufacturer for wholesale gemstone beads?
When you want to wholesale gemstone beads, no matter what product you want to find, you will find many suppliers online, such as Amazon, eBay, Alibaba, etc. What we usually do is find the best quality merchants among them. But if you are a jewelry wholesaler, this is not enough. As we know most of suppliers online are not manufacturers, they are just middlemen.
What you need to do is to find a high-quality manufacturer from the jewelry industry base. Why so? Because the first directly cooperates with the manufacturer, the price difference between the middlemen can be subtracted and the cost can be reduced.
For many products, the sellers even do not know well about the manufacturing, like if the gemstone is 100% natural. Usually, you are told the gemstones are natural and you never know how they are produced, if the stones are made by glue filling, dyeing, or healing. Only manufacturers know and could tell you. In addition, the manufacturer can create. He can not only provide the same products on the market, but also could make goods by your design, and even could help you to design the unique products.
When you cooperate directly with the manufacturer, you can flexibly control many aspects such as production time. In addition to finding a factory that can produce goods which suitable for your market, it is best to work with a supplier that can provide various products, such as accessories, for example, it can help you produce everything from beads to metal findings and finished jewelry so that you can save a lot of costs.
Where are the main jewelry markets for wholesale gemstone beads and where is the biggest jewelry manufacturing industry base in China?
Jewelers all over the world know that China and India are the largest jewelry industry countries in manufacturing. As our factory has a lot of customers from India, here we mainly introduce China jewelry factories. To be honest, many of our gemstone materials come from India, but the manufacturing part of the largest jewelry processing factories are in China. We just admit that in network marketing, Indians do much better than Chinese.
Below are the main jewelry markets in China, we list all places supplying jewelry, including gemstones, metals, diamonds, and jade.
1. Ketang Jewelry Town of Guangdong Province produces everything about gemstones. In this town, almost every family is doing the jewelry business. Countless factories in the town. And there are some jewelry markets in the town too. Ketang is the largest gemstone manufacturing base in the world.
2. Yiwu of Zhejiang Province produces cheap brass and plastic fashion jewelry. This place does not produce gemstones, most of their gemstone beads are from Ketang. So you don’t need to buy gemstone beads in Yiwu. Yiwu also produces the best freshwater pearls in China.
3. Buji of Shenzhen city in Guangdong Province is a place that has many factories which produce 18k gold jewelry with diamonds or gemstones such as sapphire, ruby, etc. The jewelry market is in Shenzhen Shuibei. The best work of Shenzhen factories is the micro setting of the diamond stone, the craftwork is perfect.
4. Panyu of Guangzhou city is a place that mainly produces silver and 18K gold jewelry with gemstones. The main work is the silver part.
5. Meilong Town place near Ketang jewelry town is a town that makes silver, brass, and gold metals. Such as chains, earrings, bracelets, bangles, etc. Meilong factories use Ketang gemstones and make them into finished jewelry. Also, there is a big jewelry market in Meilong town.
6. Donghai of Jiangsu province, Donghai produces quartz, like white quartz, smoky quartz, and lab-created quartz.
7. Liwan Mall in Guangzhou city is a jewelry market selling all kinds of gemstone beads, most of the beads are from Ketang jewelry town, but it is not to say all the sellers are manufacturers with factories. Most of them are middlemen and do not have factories.
And there is the jadeite market near Liwan Mall, you can ask anyone for the jade market, everyone knows. This place sells the most high-quality jadeite in China.
There also has a Buddhist products market near Liwan Mall named Hualin Mall, which is the largest market for selling Buddhist products.
8. Xijiao Mall of Guangzhou city, the market supplies cheap brass jewelry, and their main customers are from Africa. Xijiao Mall also provides stainless steel jewelry.
9. Yangmei of Guangdong province is the place manufacturing jadeite.
10. Yunnan province has a big market for selling jadeite too. The main customers are local Chinese. Chinese love jadeite.
From the above jewelry markets, Ketang Jewelry Town is the place with the most concentrated products and the largest variety of jewelry products, it offers all kinds of gemstones, finished jewelry, jadeite, pearl, brass, silver, gold, diamond, and everything you can find from this town.
10 Natural gemstone beads for jewelry making
Tourmaline
Tourmaline has always been one of the most popular stones, and people love its nobility. There are many colors of tourmaline, such as red, pink, blue, black, orange, yellow, and so on. Red and pink are the most popular. Especially this year as red is the trending color, our factory has received a lot of orders for beads, necklaces, and bracelets of red and pink tourmaline. Necklaces of tiny tourmaline beads and bracelets beaded by round beads are the most popular styles. And the prices of tiny beads are cheap.
Tourmaline is the modern October birthstone, and pink in particular is a very popular color. Tourmaline speaks to your heart, it brings a bounty of healing benefits. Open your heart, clear your mind, and manifest the life you want with the true meaning of tourmaline. Know more about tourmaline from Wikipedia.
Black tourmaline beads in faceted tube shapes are popular too. Our factory wholesale price can be low to USD5 per strand. When you wholesale gemstone beads for jewelry projects, tube-shaped beads will be a good choice.
Ruby
Same as tourmaline, our most hot sale ruby products are tiny faceted beads and small beads beaded necklaces. As tiny gemstone beads are at cheap prices, they are the first choice for jewelry accessories.
Ruby, diamond, sapphire, and emerald are called precious gemstones, all other stones are called semi-precious gemstones. Ruby is the July birthstone and it is one of the most coveted of gems.
The ruby is associated with the sun, and it is believed to promote loving, nurturing, health, knowledge, and wealth. It has been associated with improved energy, concentration, creativity, loyalty, honor, and compassion. Ruby is thought to be protective of home, possessions, and family. Ruby is said to stimulate the heart chakra and bring spiritual wisdom while shielding against psychic attacks. Check Wikipedia to know more about ruby.
Emerald
Emerald small faceted round and cube beads are popular. Smooth round beads are always on sale too.
Emerald, the birthstone for May, has been beloved for millennia, evoking rebirth and renewal. Emeralds also symbolize loyalty, new beginnings, peace, and security. The gem is believed to relieve stress.
Tanzanite
Tanzanite is the birthstone for December. Tanzanite is a very rare gemstone. It is widely revered by crystal healers around the world for its metaphysical and healing properties. Tanzanite gemstones are also highly vibratory and are believed to have transformational powers that can help to change a person’s spirit.
Tanzanite is always available from small faceted beads to large round beads, from normal quality to high quality in dark purple. When you want to wholesale gemstone beads for your next jewelry project, tiny tanzanite beads will be one of the best choices. Know more about tanzanite from Wikipedia.
Morganite
Morganite is the most popular woman’s stone among young people. Its color is mainly pink. So many people think that morganite is a love stone. We are supplying high-quality morganite beads in various shapes and sizes, the shape of faceted bicone, round, nugget, drop, heart, slab, stick, drop, etc.
Morganite is often associated with innocence, sweetness, romance and love. In general, morganite is connected to the heart and is attuned to the heart chakra. Morganite is believed to bring healing, compassion, and promise to those who wear it.
Introduction of Morganite in Wikipedia.
Black Sunstone
Black sunstone is a new stone in recent years, so there are not many introductions to it online. Black Sunstone is the sales champion of our factory these few years. We have got many orders of beaded bracelets in all bead sizes, usually, we are required to add some brass or silver accessories to the bracelets.
Sunstone brings joy and supports those who often feel negative or have self-doubts. It restores self-worth and boosts courage. Black sunstone also improves grounding and stabilizing energy.
Fluorite
Fluorite, also called fluorspar, is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2. It belongs to the halide minerals.
It absorbs and neutralizes negative energy and stress. An excellent learning aid, Fluorite increases our powers of concentration, and self-confidence and helps us in decision-making. It encourages positivity, balances the energies, and improves balance and coordination, both physically and mentally.
Fluorite is loved for its natural rainbow color and transparency.
Unlike ten years ago, our customers now demand high-quality fluorite beads from us. They ask for high-quality fluorite beads that are clear and in rainbow colors. And customers require us to offer more kinds of fluorite, like different sizes of all kinds of shapes, such as heart, barrel, hexagon, round, tube, square, oval, drop, stick, pear, rectangle, slab, and so on. 10 years ago, 90% of the orders were for round beads.
Orange Moonstone
We mainly manufacture orange moonstone beads in the shape of smooth round. And the orders for medium to high-quality round beads are the most. Our customers love the orange moonstone bracelets very much. Besides, our multi-color moonstone round beads are hot sale all the time.
Orange moonstone, the birthstone of June, is a perfect protection stone for women. It is a gemstone with meaning and properties of healing people’s heart. It is known as a gemstone that can relieve anxiety or stress.
Because of its good quality and low price, agate has always been the best choice for jewelry accessories.
In addition to the agate beads of various colors and shapes, you used to see, including all kinds of crackle agate and coated agate beads. In recent years, there are more than 200 types of Tibetan agate beads.
Our best-selling bead is amethyst, but amethyst as an ancient crystal is very familiar to everyone, and there are many productions of amethyst on the market. Here we introduce another purple crystal-Purple Phantom Quartz.
Our main order of this stone is round beads, people love its natural inclusions and love to make it in bracelets.
FAQ
How to identify if a gemstone is real?
When identify if a gemstone is natural or not, we need to check if it is treated. But a stone is made by glue filling, healing, and other ways treatments to some degree we still think it is real. And if you need more information on this, please check our previous article of “How to tell if a gemstone is real“.
As a jewelry supplies manufacturer, what services JewelryShells could offer?
We are a manufacturer of gemstone beads with our gemstone factory in Ketang Jewelry Town. We also supply jewelry metal accessories such as claps, chains, pendants, etc. You can check our online products of jewelry findings. More, we also supply Native American Jewelry, we are the best one-stop jewelry factory, we offer high-quality products and factory wholesale prices.
I want to go to China for wholesale gemstone beads and buy jewelry accessories, where should I go first?
Guangzhou city should be your first choice, as from the above article, you know in Guangzhou city you can wholesale gemstone beads. And there are more jewelry markets of cheap brass and alloy jewelry, stainless steel jewelry, jade, silver and gold industry base, and so on.