Welcome to bestgemstone Wholesale at factory price! We mainly supply professional craftspeople with wholesale beads, finished jewelry, brooch findings etc. The common shapes of our products include round, oval, faceted, heart, and star... In addition to these general shapes, we have a special line to produce goods of unusual shapes and sizes to reach clients’requests. We are glad to offer our customers the best service and products of top quality.
Our purpose is to serve people with "One-stop Shop". Centering on the marketing concept of "Demands of Customer are Our Pursuit", valuing the spirit of "Win-Win", we are sure to maximize the value of co-operators, company, employees and customers through our brand-new business and profit models.
This category include items that are called "gemstones" in the bead industry. They are made from more than 80 different precious and semi-precious stones, and a few are actually minerals, man made materials, or coral. All items are clearly marked with what material they are made from and if they are known to be treated in any way.
Use this alphabetical index to see all of the beads, pendants, and components that are available in a particular material. Note that we have sorted categories alphabetically by the primary gemstone name. In other words, you will find Rose Quartz listed under Quartz, Rose. We do this because there are frequently different "names" for some gemstones and grouping them by their primary name simplifies your search.
Our high quality beads supplies category includes jewelry making tools, bead storage products, and beading books.
We have all the basic tools that you need for beading and jewelry supplies - and offer tools individually or in sets. We carry hard-to-find tools for those beaders that do knotting between pearls or other beads. We also have a nice selection of products to help store and organize your beads and beads supplies.
If you are looking for a beading book to help you get proficient on assembling your jewelry, we have those too!
Why are women's blouses more expensive to clean than men's business shirts?
The reason cleaners charge more for women's blouses than men's business shirts is because they are passing along their increased cost of production to their customers. Depending on the cleaner's equipment, it costs them between three and four times the labor expense to properly "finish" blouses for women compared to a men's shirt. Here's why…
The biggest production cost for a cleaner is their labor expense, the money they pay their employees. Most of their labor goes into the "finishing" of a garment. Finishing is a combination of machine pressing and hand ironing. Most garments require a combination of machine pressing and hand ironing to achieve the desired finish. Many cleaners have special "assembly line style" machines that can finish the typical men's business shirts without any hand ironing. These machines greatly reduce the time and labor needed to finish a shirt compared to a women's blouse which sometimes requires as much as 100% hand ironing to achieve the proper finish. Depending on their equipment and the skill of the presser, most cleaners can finish three to four men's business shirts in the same time it takes to finish one women's blouse.
You may be thinking, why not make similar machines for finishing women's blouses? Well, I'm sure they would if they could. The problem is that women's blouses come in an extremely wide variety and combination of different patterns, fabric types, trims and ornamentation. Plus, these variations can change dramatically from season to season with the latest changes in fashion. This prevents the machine manufacturers from developing presses that will fit the majority of women's blouses. Where as men's shirts have basically looked exactly the same for more than 100 years and they're almost always made of 100% cotton or a cotton/poly blend. This stability in style has enabled the machine manufacturers to develop shirt presses that will fit the majority of men's business shirts. The classic men's business shirt is called a Pin Point Oxford and has the common features in the diagram below…
Most models of shirt machines are limited in the range of sizes that will fit on them. The standard range is medium through extra large. Shirts outside of this range, i.e. small and double X shirts, require extra hand finishing. A shirt that doesn't fit on these machines is typically charged the same price as a women's blouse. There is a women's version of the Pin Point Oxford business shirt, but they rarely fit on the machines. If a women's shirt will fit on the machines, the cleaner should charge her the same price as they charge for a men's business shirt.