Did you know that only wood can produce handmade wooden jewelry boxes? Each handmade jewelry box exhibits its own individual markings and traits. Each box resembles a miniature model of exquisitely carved furniture and is at times customized to blend with a room’s decor.

There are various types of jewelry boxes that follow different art styles like the Classic, Elizabethan, Victorian, Art Deco, and Contemporary forms. Matching of all sides of the box is attempted with careful attention to detail in order to balance all sides aesthetically. This is called book matching.

The band saw, a power tool, is used to carve single blocks of wood to produce band saw jewelry boxes. This tool has a metal blade with teeth along one side and is usually used to carve irregular shapes in wood. The lids are usually carved by hand and the box has no joints or seams. The inner section is cut out and sanded for a fine finish. These band saw boxes are given exotic names based on their shapes.

There are also those miniature handcrafted trinket boxes with feet and accents that can store dainty pieces of jewelry like necklaces, rings, earrings, etc. There are also men’s jewelry boxes called ‘watch boxes’ that are made exclusively for watches and are fitted with small watch pillows.

Most jewelry boxes are fitted with dividers that are used to create smaller sections in the box . The smallest jewelry box is also called a ‘snuff box’ and the largest boxes have several levels and drawers.

There was a time when carpenters used only hand tools and their own hands to carve ornate ornate jewelry boxes. Many types of exotic and rare wood were used lik the sassafras, wenge, cocobolo. Kauki is a very expensive, exotic, and rare wood and jewelry boxes made of this wood are considered family heirlooms and handed down over several generations.

Maple is one of the most favored wood for manufacturing handmade wooden jewelry boxes. There are more than a 100 species of maple! The hornbeam maple, sugar maple, red maple, and the European sycamore (of Biblical fame!) are preferred over others.

Each piece of wood is unique because of its markings caused by the elements, fungus, insects, and even genetic factors. This is how we get the unique burls in any piece of wood that cannot be replicated. The various types of wood markings have different names: curly, birds-eye, spalted, bean claw, quilted, or fiddleback flamed.

The absolutely unique jewelry box is one that is not stained or dyed with chemicals and is allowed to reveal its natural ‘defects’, which in fact serves to enhance, rather than mar, its beauty. The material used to line each box is usually made of satin or velvet or some fabric that is as smooth and soft. Silver is sometimes used for making hinges but brass and gold-plated hinges are the most common.

As such, handmade wooden jewelry boxes do not follow any set pattern. A truly skilled carpenter can bring to life any dull piece of wood and carve out a beautiful and yet unique piece of art.

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