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Wow, lots of rarely seen designs! Lovely!
Such a joy to look at, like you I am quite in love with the lovely telsums. Thank you Betty.
what a wonderful collection! i was travelling yesterday, so I did not look at Ethnic Jewels Love all your pieces shown in this series, those are extremely charming and sweet!
These are all highland pieces and the highlanders also wear lovely delicate clothing(I think brought in from India,long ago) and the woven brocate borders of the dresses and also of the stoles(also for men) are in refined colors, gold(silver) thread and silk (from India, called Saba thread, referring to queen thread,queen Sheba, who was also called Saba. So I think why the jeweller tastes are also trained in that direction. Looking at the telsums you can see the embroidery coming back into it.
On one of the previous photos you saw the Jimma bracelets(cuffs) and my favored Jimma beads those are fron the low lands and are a lot more just form and not decorated. Gr. Ingrid.
thank you for the detailed Information. I also like the Jimma pieces, especially the Jimma necklaces you have of great silver. it is difficult to say, which ones are preferable, they are two different styles. both beautiful! I love the dainty things, like the Tigray-Eritrea hairpins and telsums, but I also love your Jimma items............especially the necklaces. Yes, the queen Sheba is in German also called "Königin von Saba", the Name Sheba is not commonly known in German language. So, both styles are great, the decorated ones and the plain simple ones, and it is a good Thing that both exist.