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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Eva Baby commented on Linda Pastorino's photo

"Joost, no problem. In order to avoid problems, I have removed my links and comments as it seemed to lead to controversy only, and this was not my intention. I wanted to enrich the discussion. I have never looked on Ebay for such an item, I was…"

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Joost Daalder commented on Linda Pastorino's photo

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"Eva, - I am sure I am speaking on Linda's behalf (unless she corrects me!) as well as my own if I say that neither of us would have been under any impression that you were trying to put down Linda's price or piece! Not at all - you were…"

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Eva Baby commented on bianca maggi's photo

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"Very nice - I like that a lot.."

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Marie-Ange commented on bianca maggi's photo

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"bellisima!!"

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bianca maggi posted a photo

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MAROCCO, Berberi, sec XIX, ornamento da testa in argento e coralli

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Ahmad Hussein commented on Peter Hoesli's photo

Necklace - Palestine

"Dear hillary wow ilove them fromwhere you bought them do like to sell them if it possible i love to have them thanks"

50 minutes ago

carry zaghow-offers posted a discussion

Good how to display the bangles etc

Hello,everyone, I would ,love to hear some suggestion on how the best waydisplay my silver, the last year i have it in a cabinet, what helps becauseit does not need so much polishing because of humidity!!But then I have a rather big collection of brass bracelets and anklets, and I reallydo not know how to display them!!Any suggestion are very welcome!!Regards CarrySee More

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Rajistani necklace

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Joost Daalder replied to Tribal Heritage's discussion Inexpensive Easiest Way to cleaning tarnished Silver jewelry..

"Sorry: I wrote a note about silver and brass cleaning further below, not having seen Waqar's. It confirms what he says, and also adds a number of other things. By the way, I think this is about the third time I have written this stuff, but of…"

5 hours ago

Joost Daalder replied to Tribal Heritage's discussion Inexpensive Easiest Way to cleaning tarnished Silver jewelry..

"I missed out what Waqar wrote above about the aluminium and washing/baking soda treatment. Sorry for the repetition. Anyway, we are in hearty agreement. This method is about the only one that I fairly often use for heavily tarnished silver; if the…"

5 hours ago

Joost Daalder replied to Tribal Heritage's discussion Inexpensive Easiest Way to cleaning tarnished Silver jewelry..

"I found myself using salt (as an abrasive) and lemon - or vinegar (another acid, after all) - on heavily tarnished brass and copper in the mid 60s, when we were young, and bought such things as old jam-pans (some of which we kept but many of which…"

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Joann Tilton commented on Kathleen McCabe-Elsey's photo

Rajistani necklace

"Can you please explain the little pendants? I really like the twine beads. sophisticated and very primitive in a caring and meticulous way. Thank you. Joann Joann "

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Joann Tilton commented on Ahmad Hussein's photo

Palestine necklace

"Dear Ahmad, I am interested, but need to know the particulars. Do you have the necklace posted on a merchants' website? how do we discuss this? thanks, Joann"

8 hours ago

Jamey D. Allen commented on Marcello Ranzani's video

The Naga

"English-speakers can find this excellent episode of Himalaya with Michael Palin at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyu9W2x8OoY The Naga part commences at about twenty minutes--but the whole episode is beautiful. Jamey"

8 hours ago

SARAH CORBETT replied to Tribal Heritage's discussion Inexpensive Easiest Way to cleaning tarnished Silver jewelry..

"Thank you Jamey, wonderful to see you here S X"

8 hours ago

Jamey D. Allen replied to Tribal Heritage's discussion Inexpensive Easiest Way to cleaning tarnished Silver jewelry..

"An easy, inexpensive, and very effective way to clean tarnished copper, brass, and bronze is to use lemon and salt. Take 1/2 a lemon, and a small plate or container with a quantity of salt in it. Dip the cut side of the lemon into the salt, and rub…"

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Linda Summers commented on Jose M. Pery's photo