Is sterling silver or stainless steel better for jewelry ? is really depands on what kind of jewelry you are going to make ? As the manufacturer, there are several metal materials are very common used.

1) Iron;
2) Zinc alloy;
3) Brass;
4) Stainless steel;
5) Sterling Silver.

For the stainless steel, for the stell color, one of most advantage factor is it not tranish, you can always keep the color, and you can almost wear it lfie long.

And for other materials like sterling silver, the silver color will also get tranished, so you need apply good anti-tranish protection on it.

And for iron, zinc alloy, brass, plating will be needed on it.