Produced using special diamond cutting tools, this screen is fashioned from one of the world's hardest and most resilient materials.
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Most are casual workers employed for their traditional skills in diamond cutting and gold embroidery work, and have lived in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) for decades.
First, the company is studying distributing its diamonds directly in the U.S. and even the possibility opening diamond cutting and polishing facilities, according to a report in Bloomberg.
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The items for the exhibition were chosen for their artistic significance and their historic importance, and for the supreme skill in diamond cutting and mounting they embody, said Caroline de Guitaut, exhibition curator.
Antwerp, the city known as the world's diamond-cutting capital, lies only about 25 miles away from Brussels.
The shape of the stone, likely dating back to the later 16th century, is a product of "diamond-cutting in its infancy, " he says.
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He drank too much champagne (after cutting the diamond) and then he fainted.
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The next logical step is to automate the physical process of cutting the diamond, and Dr Holden seems to have found the ideal partner.
But even with rose-diamond composite augmented optics, we have to admit that once cutting-edge graphics are now past their prime.
He entrusted the cutting of the Cullinan to Joseph Asscher, head of the Asscher Diamond Company of Amsterdam.
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More important, if Namibia is able to establish a viable cutting and polishing industry using its own stones, then why not every other diamond-producing country too?
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