One more "further info"
Re: Another "further info" -- Timbuk-2 Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: Timbuk-2 Post Reply
11/15/2016, 13:39:47

It is always hard to make an evaluation (of beads in this case) based on photos alone. It`s a gamble to do it and we better don't. Sometimes we have no choice and "must" do it, when the onl other option is keeping mouth shut, saying nothing.

That said, you have to take my words with a few grains of salt.

I am rather certain the "amber" on that Muraqat-Lapis strand you have shown us are actually (phenolic) "resin" (hoping I am using the right terminology, Rosanna...!?). Certainly the little pendants are, while some real (German/Polish/Russian) amber beads might be among the round pieces. But even this is doubtful, considering the photo alone.

Yes, it is some nice necklace, if we want to wear the beads as such. Traditionally Muraqat were hair-ornaments, and, to a lesser extent bracelet beads for only 2 (shape) kinds of the Muraqat family. Hemispheric and lozenge shapes (in blue, red and polychrome - the blue variety in over 100 different designs - each design representing another individual artist).

As a traditionalist (especially when it comes to Muraqat) I am generally not really fan of turning the beads into wearable jewellery. Just a personal preference, based on some possibly weird kind of respect for the original makers.

Still - just last year I did the very same, when I designed a Muraqat-pendant for my wife's and mine 10 years marriage anniversary. Should I find the photo, I will post it. I guess the production of this piece makes me some kind of hippocrit, given what I just said previously about my general use of the beads (as single pieces in a collectors-box).



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