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Original Message:   MURAQAT - small size vs. avarage size
Some time ago somebody posted a sweet little necklace with tiny Muraqat. I said, back then, that I would own such beads in an even smaller size. Seems I have been wrong! Mine, the ones you see on the attached photos, are possibly of same small size and not as tiny as I falsely remembered. Those (small) beads I was refering too, had not been in my possession at the time. Since I am back from Tucson, this beads - and others - are with me again (that's why I can post some of them today).

The smallest bead on the attached photos is 2.6 mm diamter. All others on the strand are slightly bigger - up to ca. 5mm diameter, what makes them more or less the same size than the those of the previous poster.

Still - this beads (the one of this poster and mine) are surprisingly tiny. It is truely amazing that the Mauretanian craftswoman are able to apply such intricate designs onto such tiny cores, and that leaves unconsidered their very basic tools.

In order to demonstrate the tiny size of certain Muraqat, I photographed one such strand of tiny specimen (2.6 - 5 mm diamter) together with a few pieces of avarage size.

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