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Can one still buy those nice smelling little hart-beads?
Magnificent display, I am dying to come to Tunisia to see and buy all of this wonderful jewelry. It seems that Tunisian jewels do not seem to make the international market all!
Patricia is right, not much comes on to the markets, though I come along some jewelry every now and then. Though in some German collections you see quite a lot of it.
Edith; i know them as Algerian skhab. specialy from mzab. i will be there tomorrow.if you need, i buy you one. just that you get more infos, they are not more all original . the metall is almost all imported and it is to buy from turkie;syria until marokko
It reminds me to Indian workmanship!!
Ans maybe even Syrian!!
So it could be old Jew craftsmanship???
This pendant is new...there are a number of Jewish craftsmen still in Djerba that could have made it. The scented beads were made by a lady who I visited in Midoun.
called a "meskia" or musk holder, from Algeria. Here is paris among the large algerian diaspora, it is very widespread and one can find, silver, gold and metal ones on sale in the jewelry shop that cater for this community and their weddings!
The skhab is gorgeous. Do you get to buy skhab alone, i mean is it usually for sale as only beads or only available strung in necklaces ?
One can buy the beads alone...which I did because this lady's beads are of higher quality than one can buy in the Tunis Medina. Generally, the best scented beads are made in very small quantities by ladies who don't sell on the open market. They sell to people they know by word of mouth. They are made in shades of brown, black or less commonly in red (check out the mahleb scented beads I recently posted for example of red scented beads).
Do you also sell those scented "hart" beads? I am interested in those.
Hi Harald: I don't actually sell anything. I am more of a collector and researcher, but if I decide to sell I will let you know. The heart shape, by the way, is one of the most traditional. The lady who made the ones in the photo told me it was the first shape she learned from her mother. The recipes and techniques to make scented beads are passed from mother to daughter. Producing the beads is a long process requiring more than 2 months.
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