Sunday, January 31, 2010

Botsvana - The new international diamond center


Diamond trading Company Botswana (DTCB) in their effort to put Botswana on the map of the international diamond trading centers is launching the second annuallyShining Light Diamond Jewelery Design Awards.
Last year at the first Shining Light Diamond Jewelery Design Awards, 145 entrants were participating, but only five of them had a chance to emerge from the crowd. This five diamond jewelery designers submitted the diamond jewelery designs in fromt of the judges. The winner of the first Shining Light Diamond Jewelery Design Awards was Katja Nilsson with a jewelery design of the stunning 18 carat white and red gold necklace embeded with 674 round brilliant cut diamonds with total weight of 24.95 carats.
This year even more entrants will participate. The launch will be held at Thapong Visual Art Center said DTCB External Communications Manager, Tebogo Moribame-Setiko.
The opening will be folowed by a workshop in February and the deadline will be on First of March.
A number of sponsors will fund the wining diamond designs.
The wining pieces will be known as the Botswana collection and will go on the international road show together with Namibian Shining Light Diamond Jewelery Design Awards and South African Shining Light Diamond Jewelery Design Awards.
The whole project will allow Diamond trading Company Botswana to establish the chain which is starting at the Botswana diamond fields and diamond mines and will end in the design studios which will allow the highest profits for the country.

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