New Website Update

We were running slow on the new www.cjmsea.com website but it should be ready very soon. We just have to migrate the email accounts and the change the domain name servers.

The new software is an open source content management system called Joomla which should make it easier to expand the site.

Bali and Bangkok

Our location here in Bangkok gives us access to local jewelry suppliers. For a long time it has been the center of colored gem trade with jewelers both cutting and setting all sorts of stones.

The history of jewelry in this part of the world goes back far into history. The region has mined colored gems with Burma, the eastern part of Thailand and Cambodia supplying rubies, sapphires, and many more precious stones. Silver has been worked in Laos and amongst the hill tribes since recorded times.



Bali is now famous for and is the real center for organic jewelry using shell, coral, horn, bone and wood. The eastern part of Java and the next door island of Bali have a history of supplying jewelry to kings of Java. The designs seen in architecture and tattoos are being translated by the modern day jewelers into jewelry designs.

We are lucky to have our factory in Bali to get the best of both worlds. Although China and Korea do supply the jewelry trade they are both left behind by the skill of the workers for handcrafted jewelry in our two locations.

Borneo Designs

Looking through a book on tribal tattoo designs it was clear what inspires some of the Bali designs. This one below looks like some of the horn claws we do.



Here in Bangkok it looks like it's going to be a hot day unless we get a bit of rain.

As promised here is the Google Earth view of the Bangkok office. We are to the east of the city with a number canals around us. Click on the picture for a full-size picture.

CJMSEA Office

Here's a picture of where we work from. I will follow up with a Google Earth picture later.

Tribal Jewelry Designs

The SE Asia and Pacific area has been a good source for tribal designs which makes Bali a great place to find new jewelry ideas. Both in jewelry and tattoos you can find it here. Above is a Maori tattoo picture from Wikipedia. The article is here.

Save the Planet

A good friend of ours has a great video on YouTube. Here it is below.

New website

Our new website, www.coolpierce.com, should be ready sometime this week. At the moment it has just dummy product and prices in it but the complete pricelist is almost done. It is carrying organic bone, horn and wood piercing jewelry from our Bali factory at wholesale prices.