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Old October 1st 09, 06:32 PM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
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On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:07:47 -0700, William Black wrote:
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But it's all the bloody same...


Bloody sameness? In what way?


Indian gold jewellery being sold today is based on a set of standard
designs that don't seem to have changed significantly in at least the
past couple of hundred years.

The pictures of the lady Ganesh posted links to a couple of weeks ago
could have been wearing (very expensive) jewellery made last week rather
than over 100 years ago.

Gold jewellery is routinely inherited and worn and doesn't look any
different in style when worn with new stuff.

All that varies is the engraving


I guess our criteria for "sameness" are vastly different.
http://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Je.../dp/050028749X
What I call the same is the boring little wedding rings worn by
people in the West.


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Old October 2nd 09, 02:31 AM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
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polymer wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:07:47 -0700, William Black wrote:
snippage
But it's all the bloody same...
Bloody sameness? In what way?

Indian gold jewellery being sold today is based on a set of standard
designs that don't seem to have changed significantly in at least the
past couple of hundred years.

The pictures of the lady Ganesh posted links to a couple of weeks ago
could have been wearing (very expensive) jewellery made last week rather
than over 100 years ago.

Gold jewellery is routinely inherited and worn and doesn't look any
different in style when worn with new stuff.

All that varies is the engraving


I guess our criteria for "sameness" are vastly different.
http://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Je.../dp/050028749X
What I call the same is the boring little wedding rings worn by
people in the West.


I think you'll find that this is a piece of jewellery on the cover of a
book that devotes about 150 pages to describing the traditions of Indian
jewellery design...

After that it talks about jewellery as bullion and manufacturing techniques.

I do have to add that I had to have the very plain 'D' section court
rings that my wife and I wear as weddings rings specially made in India
as they're almost unheard of there.

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William Black

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Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat
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Old January 12th 10, 03:39 PM
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Because the political system has always been a touch unstable people
want portable wealth and jewellery is one way of having that without
suspicion that you've got a sack of gold bars under the bed.
 




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