It would put a designer's skills to the test indeed to create a jewellery out of diamonds with huge carats. The conventional practice was to use large diamonds as pendants for necklaces, since molding or reshaping them proved impossible. Usually the designer had two choices in this regard. They either added in small diamond shards to the back of the large diamond to form a supporting structure, or they integrated the whole diamond into the necklace itself.

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