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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Lovely, I like especially the coins. Thanks for the information, nice to know how they were worn. Syrian jewellery is rather rare here.
I have seen very little of Syrian jewelry anywhere -- at least on the web. Seems to be rare all over.
These are interesting. We had a pair that came with a bulk lot of old Central Asian, Turkoman, and Iranian jewelry. I assumed that they were Central Asian, possibly Caucasian as the coins on the bottom were old imperial Russian kopecs.
In fact I bought them in a small town in the center of Syria, Dar-el Zour, but coming back home I found the information and a photograph of these beads in its original set in the book "The Arts and Crafts of Syria" from Johannes Kalter, Thames and Hudson, 1992. I've got 6 which are the same, so I guess they were from the same set, and 2 more smaller and older.
Beautiful made plait jewelry. And a nice big set of 8! I will post my Omani plait jewelry in my Omani album.
It is so nice to compare things, although these do not resemble each other at all.
link:
https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/oman-jewelry-for-the-hair?contex...
Thanks Harald! beautiful your plait jewelry of Oman