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Yemenite silver-work is noted for its intricate use of filigree and fine granulation. [2] [6] Jewellery containing a high silver content was called ṭohōr by local Jews, or muḫlaṣ in Arabic, and referred to jewellery whose silver content ranged from 85 to 92 percent, while the rest was copper.
Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes.
He was named after his grandfather, Shlomo Moussaieff, a wealthy Bukharan merchant who was one of the founders of the Bukharim neighbourhood in Jerusalem in 1891. [5] Rehavia, who later traded in fine gems in Paris, [6] introduced Shlomo to the jewellery trade at a young age. [7] Shlomo's youngest brother, Alon, also became a Jerusalem ...
Dec. 18—A community of volunteers at the Kauai Jewish Center have sent their support to Israeli refugees of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in a tangible form : handmade Hawaiian-themed jewelry ...
Jewellery of a Berber woman in the Musée du quai Branly, Paris. Jewellery of the Berber cultures (Tamazight language: iqchochne imagine, ⵉⵇⵇⵛⵓⵛⵏ ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵏ) is a historical style of traditional jewellery that was worn by women mainly in rural areas of the Maghreb region in North Africa and inhabited by Indigenous Berber people (in the Berber language Tamazight ...
The city was founded by Abdullah bin Muhammad al-Sulaihi in the mid-11th century, and according to Tarikh al-Yamman of the famed Yemenite author Umara al-Yamani (1121–74), was named after a Jewish pottery merchant. [49] During the 12th century, Aden was first ruled by the Fatimid Caliphate and then the Ayyubids.
The Namejs ring has become a central figure in Latvian jewelry, due to its design and mythological significance. [6] In the 20th century, there was an explosion of interest in the Namejs ring in Baltics, both as jewelry and as an icon of Latvian identity. [7] It is mostly worn by men, but in modern times there are also women who wear it. [3]
Native American jewelry can be made from naturally occurring materials such as various metals, hardwoods, vegetal fibers, or precious and semi-precious gemstones; animal materials such as teeth, bones and hide; or man-made materials like beadwork and quillwork. Metalsmiths, beaders, carvers, and lapidaries combine these materials to create jewelry.