ethnic jewels - An appreciation of ethnic jewellery and adornment

ethnic jewels

An appreciation of ethnic jewellery and adornment

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BERBER JEWELLERY

Designer jewels

Berbersilver

Morocco jewel tour September 2013

Temporal of Marie terese Thalers

Large silver and niello ring

Saharwi pendant necklace

bakelite tanfouk rare large green example

large old Dar n Ouchen fibula

Caucasian Niello and silver bird ring

Finest antique branch coral

Dades pendants

A sweet Tarroudant Croix pendant

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Marrakech

Blog Posts

Ancient Beadwork website

Posted by Patricia Deany on May 18, 2013 at 16:56 4 Comments 0 Likes

Advancing our sites functionality... a project for us all

Posted by SARAH CORBETT on May 15, 2013 at 20:04 2 Comments 0 Likes

Are these Ait Oaurzguit temporals?

Posted by Patricia Deany on May 8, 2013 at 20:27 1 Comment 0 Likes

Feast for the eyes

Posted by Patricia Deany on May 2, 2013 at 10:00 2 Comments 1 Like

"Kanuita" Jewel containing a magic roll, Ethiopian Coptic.....

Posted by Imbert de Dion on April 21, 2013 at 15:31 39 Comments 0 Likes

Upcoming book on Yemeni jewellery

Posted by Preethi on April 14, 2013 at 19:07 1 Comment 1 Like

Islamic star

Posted by Patricia Deany on March 30, 2013 at 12:38 17 Comments 1 Like

site maintainance

Posted by SARAH CORBETT on March 21, 2013 at 20:34 0 Comments 0 Likes

Met Museum Turkoman Collection

Posted by Patricia Deany on March 17, 2013 at 13:39 1 Comment 0 Likes

Ancient Pyu Bead with gold repair-59mm long

Posted by Elizabeth Pelzner on January 9, 2013 at 15:36 0 Comments 0 Likes

Anybody a Pre-Columbian Amber expert out there?

Posted by Jonathan Saturen on January 2, 2013 at 0:02 3 Comments 1 Like

Omani Women

Posted by Patricia Deany on December 31, 2012 at 15:03 5 Comments 2 Likes

Help!!

Posted by Anna Singer on December 20, 2012 at 21:06 5 Comments 0 Likes

Turkoman jewelry

Posted by Patricia Deany on December 12, 2012 at 12:59 2 Comments 0 Likes

Library of Congress Turkestan Album prints.

Posted by Patricia Deany on December 6, 2012 at 15:00 9 Comments 3 Likes

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Joost Daalder commented on Linda Pastorino's photo

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"Good photo!"

35 minutes ago

Joost Daalder commented on Linda Pastorino's photo

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"It's a lovely piece. Well done, Linda, and I'll look forward to the other one as well!"

36 minutes ago

Peter Hoesli commented on Mohamad Eid Zantout's photo

"Dear Mohamad: this is a very nice set and to have the top pieces in silver only is correct. I have posted some of these as well. I understand from reading and also many hours discussions with silver dealers in Oman, that gold was applied only later…"

2 hours ago

Eva Baby commented on Linda Pastorino's photo

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"Thank you anyway for posting them! I will look for pictures of ladies wearing old costumes in order to discover such items (on old photos). But they are surely only to be seen in real by insiders (in certain families in central Switzerland or in…"

2 hours ago

Peter Hoesli commented on Mohamad Eid Zantout's photo

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"Dear Mohamad: during the past years, I have travelled 3 times to Oman and I have purchased from one of the silver shops in the Muttreh Souk also when at home in Jordan. However, every time the Jewellery became more and more expensive. At one stage…"

2 hours ago

Mohamad Eid Zantout commented on Pierre's photo

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"This is very beautiful with this color conbination."

3 hours ago

Linda Pastorino commented on Linda Pastorino's photo

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"I would imagine that all of these items have special hidden meaning. I think there are specialty books on these but I rarely buy or see Swiss items so I have never invested in the costume books for my library. I have these published in some…"

3 hours ago

Eva Baby commented on Linda Pastorino's photo

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"very nice, very interesting, I think this was worn with the ancient costumes ("Trachten"), I confirm that if I wanted to buy one here in Switzerland, I probably would have problems to find it, even a modern one......."

3 hours ago

Linda Pastorino commented on Linda Pastorino's photo

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"I have another one also that is double but have not unpacked it yet.. Two on same trip, but two different sources.. "

3 hours ago

Mohamad Eid Zantout commented on Mohamad Eid Zantout's photo

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"Thank i liked it. Sometimes i wonder how they used to wear the huge set."

3 hours ago

Mohamad Eid Zantout commented on Mohamad Eid Zantout's photo

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"Thank you Just come back from oman Everytime i go i find good pieces are disapearing from the market. I believe in three or four years we wont be able to find any piece. Oman and yemen has nice old silver items. I love your collection as well, you…"

3 hours ago

Eva Baby commented on Linda Pastorino's photo

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"This is really surprising, I have never seen this close! The middle part looks like a passion flower, which has not been generally known in Switzerland (imported flower). even today very rare, I really wonder how it comes to a…"

3 hours ago

Eva Baby commented on Linda Pastorino's photo

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"Wow, from my country! I am very surprised! I have never seen such before except in museums!"

3 hours ago

Hillary Louarti commented on Linda Pastorino's photo

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"Splendid, just like the sun!"

4 hours ago

Linda Pastorino commented on Linda Pastorino's photo

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"Hi It's Bulgarian, must have put that in the other photos. I updated this one. I have a book with several similar pieces in it, but all in that language. I can not read it. "

5 hours ago

Linda Pastorino commented on Linda Pastorino's photo