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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jose. it is a wunderful piece. in my opinion, the restring is mix with beads from northafrica (looks real amber )
the silver beads are museum pieces
tribal. do you have a private museum ??
you are right with jose. he has a good eye for beautiful items and he is a silent savourer.
i have no museum , just some pieces in a box and one hanging. you trabal !!!!!! eh ehh e ehheh
i m following your museum pieces and comments and i know that is not from usual small colector
we have to do like the camel not the horse
do you know that the camel never eats lotof leaves from one ast, takes just a little and goes to the next ast.even if he is hungry, never eats a lot from one tree. always leaves enough that the tree survives and for him to find next time he is there.
we sell a bit ( corectly and honestly ) and we let some pieces fell behind the desk or under the bed and we just forget them
Thank you Waqar/Ait for your extremely nice comments and valuable input. Actually I bought this in London about three or four years ago. I liked it and the seller told me that it was Baluchi. Maybe he meant that not the arrangement itself but some of the beads. I am attaching below two more pictures. I do not have any close up picture at the moment.
I feel this too in regard to collecting / selling. For years I kept very little, because as you say, to perpetuate trade we must sell the beautiful pieces we find through our love of them. The pieces I have kept have mainly be those gifted to me kindly by others.
A few years ago I realised that the ability to find great pieces at prices I could sell to my clients was becoming more difficult, so the jewellery tours were arranged to allow those with a true passion to still access and enjoy the treasures.
Over the past. 6 months I have begun to keep some pieces for a small collection of my own, as I know that if the chance passes and I have nothing to remind me of this life passion I shall be desolate!
The passion of a seller is no less than the passion of the collector, it just takes massive self control and sense of a purpose of bringing the palpable joy of experiencing these wonders to other people because we can truly understand the power and beauty which each holds.
I think that this deep passion and the ability to pass on the joy that the objects of our passion brings brings us joy ourselves. I like to help people to feel happy !
S x
Oh you dealers! What would us greedy collectors do without you? :))
Everybody is a dealer sooner or late, I sell things that I love too, right now it is antique quilts, just to afford my jewelry addiction -- so many of the dealer/collectors on the site are also scholars and passionate lovers of ethnic beauty and that is why I spend so much time here! I greatly appreciate your ability to let things go, it would be almost impossible for me at this point to sell parts of my collection. I know that people like you and Ait and Sarah and Ayis have wonderful taste and knowledge and I depend on that to select some of the heavenly things that I currently find. And I have always hoped that you all have a secret stash somewhere, stuff to hand down to you children, because so much of what we see now will not be around in just a few years.
Thank you so much, Waqar. And do not apologize at all. That is one the nice things about this venue. It is a lively one and discussions can take many directions, resume again and so on. Great!.
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