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carved wood Tibetan

Posted by Linda Pastorino on June 17, 2012 at 9:51am

Carved wood beads, burl , boxwood etc once used on tobacco pouches and pipe ends similarly to ojime beads in Japan. These Tibetan, some having considerable age. Designed as a necklace.

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Harald June 17, 2012 at 9:16pm

Thanks for this information about these Tibetan beads being used as ojime.

I did not know that was done outside Japan and China.
Linda Pastorino June 17, 2012 at 10:56pm

Hi, I didn't mean that it was the same practice. What I meant was that toggles were used on pouches, and then there were smoking pipes that had beads on them also. The similarity to Japan is only in that they used decorations in very much the same way as they did as well in China. Most things were decorated with beads, tassels even window tie backs , screens, mats, beddings, hats. All kind of places we don't think of. Even cricket cages had some tassels with beads some times.

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