A digital archive showcasing the extensive collection of jewellery and adornment images shared on the former Ethnic Jewels Ning site over the years. These images have significantly enriched discussions on cultural adornment and its global dispersion.
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wow! never seen something like this before. thanks for sharing. this is such a learning experience..
Agreed, howah - I too don't know these, and am equally impressed. We are indeed being shown remarkable jewellery right now. I have been in contact with Linda for a long time and even in recent years have seen quite a bit else which I had not known, but these very recent postings are something entirely new again - I think Linda said earlier that she had not posted them before. We have indeed reason to be grateful!!
How amazingly made, instead of using turquoise or coral to use nuts. Great pair Linda!
Each also has a cap that is shaped like a flower. The seeds or nuts have a nice wear on them. In India they do this with nuts to make necklaces that are quite beautiful and capped with silver in Tamil Nadu.
Again , no words to match the diversity and quality of your collection.
It really makes a difference when one has started collecting in the early times (post independence) up to early nineties.
Now we only have low quality, horredously priced items and you have to go through tons and tons of pieces to find a very nice one.
I do like on these bracelet theuse of nuts since it is very unusual to mix precious metals with non precious material, but we can understand that nut may have meant a lot to mongol nomads!
Hi Are you in India now? I am wondering how slim are the pickings there? I had dealer friends of mine scoping it out for me a week ago and I sent them images of things like what i own to find and try and bring back however what they showed me available was pretty hideous and expensive. Maybe if one goes shop by shop and looks through hundreds of bags one or two pieces might still be in old stashes.. I'm just curious what you take on it is since I have not been in 10 years.
Linda, no Arie is in India now.
Oh ok got confused! Do I know that person? Man or woman? I'll have to look up on our lists of bloggers. I guess Ayis you concentrate on Moroccan, Algerian etc mostly right? I unfortunately like it all, which makes it a bit much... heeehee...
No problem linda.
But i for once, would have loved to be in india right now far from cold paris. And of course would also love to hop from shop to shop treasure huntig. India is dear to my heart and is really unique as to the diversity and qualtity of pieces available but unfortunately it must be suffering from the same scarcity that plagues the rest of the ethic jewelry world.
Anyway, i like to discover as many aspects as possible of world jewelry but for a matter of personal comfort and also to deepen my knowledge of a specific field i am right now focusing on the jewelry of north africa and the sahara wich brings me many joy and fullfillment.....i nonetheless hope that collectors and dealers of your stand keep opening our eyes on more and more diversity and it is much more worthy when it means the rarest and the dearest such as the beauiful pieces you post here.
thanx again
Ayis, I like your whole post, but especially this part: "i nonetheless hope that collectors and dealers of your stand keep opening our eyes on more and more diversity and it is much more worthy when it means the rarest and the dearest such as the beauiful pieces you post here." This is right: for many years Linda HAS concentrated on acquiring the very best pieces (the most beautiful and rarest, which unfortunately also often means the dearest), and it is great that we get the opportunity to see them. Not everything she sells is a "high ticket" item, though - even quite recently she had an excellent piece for sale, which I recommended to someone else, for a mere $875, and it was MUCH better value than many articles being sold which aren't remotely of the quality which she aims for. The person I recommended it to could not buy, in the event, but the piece went to another lucky buyer instead. When it comes to these pieces she has been posting which are part of her personal collection and which we cannot buy, we are even more privileged to see them than when they are for sale, since by no means everyone is prepared to show personally owned pieces to others, and particularly as generously as Linda is doing here, where everyone can see them. I know a great many of the pieces she has sold and also many others which she owns and has shown before, but these recent postings are of pieces NOT shown previously, and we are very lucky to be able to see them, as many will probably simply not be seen at all, otherwise. Less and less truly good material is still being sold, and much that is made today in various cultures is at best mediocre even if vaguely attractive, and at worst absolutely atrocious, compared with the quality pieces we can see on Linda's page - several hundreds of them, by now. It is a treasure trove and a great resource, setting a standard for all serious collectors.