Variety of ethnic jewelry in different cultures. Fashionable national jewelry from around the world (photo) Conditions for booking a weekend tour

Slavic girls decorated their outfits with wooden bracelets and earrings with plant motifs. The main red color was complemented with black and white. Often they resorted to using beads to create a set.

Indian ethnic jewelry is an ensemble made of leather, beads, and feathers. The Indians preferred light brown shades in combination with dark burgundy in their outfits and accessories. Pendants with feathers and leather bracelets integral to Indian style.

Indian jewelry is made only from natural materials
Wild Indian images

Japanese ethnicity, painted in white, black and red, is decorated with cherry blossoms. Monochrome can be diluted with ornaments in orange and pink shades. Sakura flowers occasionally replace images with plants and birds.

African style jewelry is characterized by diluted colors. These are muted beige shades. Creating contrast is achieved by adding terracotta and scarlet shades, white. Sometimes African jewelry served not only the role of costume jewelry, but also the role of clothing assigned to them, covering the nakedness of African women with many threads of strung multi-colored beads. This style is distinguished by amulets with claws and fangs of animals decorated with bird plumage.

Modern trends with echoes of ethnicity

The fashion for ethnicity and jewelry made from beads does not leave only young fashionistas, but also ladies of a more interesting age. It is for this purpose that ethnic elements were complemented with modern solutions, which allows you to harmoniously reunite simplicity and luxury, elegance and sophistication. Original earrings in art deco style

• Hippie style jewelry. Jewelry symbolizes freedom of spirit and harmony with nature. The hippie style does not use totems or engravings of gods. Beaded necklaces and bracelets are characterized by lightness and airiness. Color solutions closer to Indian motifs, but do not carry the religiosity inherent in antiquity. A complete mixture of styles is characteristic of hippies.
• Safari-style jewelry – African motifs with a modern twist. Ethnic safari style earrings are large hoops. Bracelets and necklaces are made of textured leather with images of African animals. Silver, leather, wood, and metal jewelry with its simplicity and diversity have filled jewelry stores and jewelry.

Safari-style jewelry is also made from natural materials: wood, leather

Silver and leather are revered by all fashionistas who dream of recreating a bright ethno style, while art deco emphasizes the style with its high cost and luxury. At the same time, the availability of beads pleases needlewomen with the opportunity to independently make jewelry with an African or Indian motif.

Ethnic jewelry from different peoples of the world has long attracted the best designers of our time with their ideas and beauty, spied in the surrounding nature by the keen eye of an ancient man. We offer you a selection that is a mix of ethnic jewelry and creative solutions in the world of jewelry art today, based on ethnic motifs.

How a good picture is framed with a wooden frame best quality, without skimping on the highest grades of wood, ornaments and gilding, people since ancient times have been trying to frame their appearance, emphasize beauty or stand out in socially beautiful or just bright decorations. At the same time, ethnic jewelry is distinguished by the originality of the ornament characteristic of a certain ethnic group.

Filigree armor

Ember woman (Panama)

Ethnic jewelry also differs in materials traditional for a particular people. This can be a fusion of natural materials from pebbles and blades of grass, to the skulls of animals caught in hunting or characteristic of breeding and use in pastoral tribes, and people - usually enemies defeated in battle.

Ethnic jewelry from Richard Avedon

Lesley Vik Waddell Ethnic Jewelry for Swarovski Runway Rocks

But even among the very ancient peoples in large quantities There are jewelry made of gold and silver. At the same time, a person’s status was very clearly revealed both by the quantity of jewelry and the quality jewelry processing.

Ethnic Jewelry Kirsten Hood Back

Ethnic jewelry from the collection "The Temptation of Mata Hari"

Apparently, the expression “a man is judged by his woman” has come into use since then. Indeed, in those distant times, it was mandatory for the leader’s wife to demonstrate social status her husband and her own precisely through the amount of jewelry on her body.

Nigerian bride on her wedding day

Indian Tribal Representative at Hornbill Festival

At the same time, neither her appearance nor purely feminine qualities, such as thriftiness and motherhood, were so significant value for others, such as, for example, the total weight of the gold bracelets on her arms and legs.

A Songhai woman at a market in Gao (Africa) with an elaborate hairstyle typical of her tribe. Antique French and British silver coins were used, their age is over a hundred years. Photographer Nigel Pavitt

Ethnic jewelry. Iraq

Ethnic jewelry is divided into women's, men's and children's. At the same time, certain types of jewelry were often of a narrowly taboo nature: for example, a widowed woman could not wear the same jewelry as a married woman, and an ordinary male warrior could not try on the jewelry of a priest or leader.

Ethnic jewelry of Tibet. Tibetan woman's hands decorated with 24-karat gold and coral rings

Collection of ethnic jewelry "The Animal Instinct" from Afi Hakan Celebi

Ethnic Jewelry for Costume by shimmies

Nowadays, jewelry designers very often turn to ethnic jewelry for inspiration, borrowing both shape and ornaments from them. The result is ethnic jewelry, passed through the prism modern technologies in the field of metal and stone processing, the creativity of the author's artistic vision and art value and relevance in the world of modern fashion.

Chleuh woman, Morocco. 1950

Thai headdress. From the collection of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum

Ethnic jewelry of Sonam woman.

Headdress of the Miao people, China. Fabric, white brass, silver, pearl and gold

Karo woman, Ethiopia

Gujarat tribal woman

Ethnic style jewelry from Alexis Bittar

Ethnic style jewelry by Shaun Leane (for the Alexander McQueen collection)

Ethnic jewelry by Carlos Violante for White Antelope Studio Art

Hand of King Bonoua, Ivory Coast

Ethnic Jewelry by Ashleigh McCulloch

Dancer of the Wewak tribe, Papua New Guinea. Photographer Vincent Ross

Many people remember cute dolls from childhood. national costumes. One is the impeccably reliable “European” from Mattel, the other is the “fifteen sister republics” produced in the Soviet Motherland. Combined series were sometimes supplemented with “bonuses”, for example, beauties in fur from the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug. All these young ladies were supplied with sets of “jewelry” - almost always, alas, non-removable. Your first samples traditional jewelry Girls and boys studied the peoples of the world in exactly this way - simply by playing with dolls.

Features of traditional folk jewelry

Real national jewelry is characteristic and easily recognizable. By the way, this is what distinguishes them from ethnic jewelry - a more smoothed fashionable stylization with “folk elements.”

Traditional jewelry is often covered with embossed or filigree designs. They can be large, like a patterned brooch or pendant on the temples, hair or chest, or multi-part. Vivid examples are sets of thin hoops for arms or legs and monistic necklaces made of small coins.

Examples of traditional jewelry from different nations

Türkiye, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Their own varieties of national jewelry were intended for residents of any gender and age - women, men, children and the elderly:

As part of a folk costume, jewelry indicated a person’s national (tribal) affiliation and status. Certain types of jewelry could even have a taboo character. For example, a widow could not wear the same thing as a “young woman,” and a “citizen from the street” did not dare to encroach on the “insignia” of a priest or leader.

Jewelry “decoration” of representatives of different nations of the world

Kenya, China, Baltic countries:

India, Tibet, Turkmenistan:

Connoisseurs of distant travels are especially familiar with the phenomenon of “national jewelry” - the most popular souvenir option. Usually this is an artisanal production line with a pronounced local flavor.

Examples of traditional jewelry of the peoples of Africa:

Examples of traditional jewelry of the peoples of India:

It is interesting that even today the semantic codes embedded in traditional products can be easily read. In the minds of most, the shamrock is Ireland, the lily is France, the Star of David is Israel, auseklis is the morning star, the Latvian national symbol. Thus, reality, reduced to ornament, becomes a national emblem.

Trefoil, claddagh (symbol of friendship and fidelity), Celtic knot, triskelion and other symbols of Ireland:

French lily (fleur-de-lys):

Latvian "morning star" (auseklis):

Israeli Star of David, Hand of David (Khamsa):

Jewelry traditions of the East and Asia

Women of the East and Asia tirelessly and skillfully decorate themselves. Jewelry plays a key role in this process.

India, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal

Mongolian ethnic groups from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan

Among the majority of traditional southern, Middle Eastern, and Asian peoples, ladies are more than fully equipped with jewelry - you can’t spoil the porridge with butter! Necklaces and headbands made of coins, temple jewelry, pendants for braids, many hoop-bracelets on the arms and legs. All this is a kind of reserve “in case”. After all, for some respectable husbands it is enough to say “you are no longer my wife” in front of two witnesses, and the woman leaves the house in what she was wearing. The veil hid not only the owner’s face, but also the state of her “gold reserves.”

Casket of Europe

Traditional decorations of the Baltic countries

The jewelry “load” of, say, Estonian women was hardly inferior to the ammunition of the eastern sisters. Neck and chest jewelry made of silver were in use: fibula hairpins, cone-shaped “kuhik-sypg” brooches (the author personally lost one, which she extremely regrets), flat ones, decorated at the edges with “prees” stones, woven chains, large, hollow inside wing beads.

Ukrainian national jewelry

Now listen: branzoleta, hryvnia, temples, namisto. Of course, these are the names of positions in the casket of the Ukrainian beauty. When the husband is on a hike, the box is a good emotional and material support.

“Dukachi” (dukachi) - a pendant with a large coin, usually used as a central element of necklaces, and “ducats” (ducati) - necklaces made of many coins, accompanied by beaded threads and other decorative elements:

“Zgardi” amulets necklace with Hutsul crosses:

Salbi - ducats made in the form of necklaces-bibs:

Corals are a favorite stone in Ukrainian jewelry, and “pisan patsorki” (pisanі patsorki) are multi-colored beads made of opaque glass or Venetian beads:

Jewelry traditions of the peoples of the Caucasus

The Caucasus is rightfully proud of its jewelry crafts: by the end of the 19th century, the Dagestan (Kubachi), Tbilisi, and Vladikavkaz schools dominated there. Armenian craftsmen worked primarily with gold. In Azerbaijan, gold was decorated with enamels.

Native patterns: traditions of Russian jewelry

How are Russian jewelry styles represented today (in reality, crafts)? The first to come to mind are enamel and filigree. And also beadwork - an extremely popular mass hobby on the verge of a trade. Of course, this also includes bone carving (Yakut, Kholmogory, Khotkovsk). “Under tsarism,” craftsmen artistically carved caskets, cups, etc., and today you can often find designer women’s bone jewelry - through, embossed or smooth.

Folk trail of folk decorations

How do real artifacts (that is, authentic national jewelry) end up in the family boxes of fellow citizens?

Option one: your rural great-great-grandmother saved her dowry chest in the slalom of history. Option two: one of the relatives took part in the endless exchange of “this for that” during the war years, not to mention trophy souvenirs. Another way is to reputably purchase “antiques” in thrift stores and flea markets.

Of course, even today you can find places where craftsmen sit and create national jewelry. But - sales? How many of us alternately seven days a week are decorated with Kholmogory bone carvings, Rostov enamel (in its classic style), Nizhny Novgorod filigree, bracelets and brooches from Palekh and Fedoskino? There is no prophet in his own country - remember “The Scarlet Flower”? “Bring me, father, Overseas attire.”

And yet: what to wear with traditional jewelry?
Wearing national jewelry is not as difficult as it might seem. Jeans and a T-shirt, any number (and location) of national jewelry will turn into hippie style. The abundance of southern, eastern, and Caucasian silver will decorate an outfit of dark, rich colors. The Baltic brooch will add a spicy note to your office look. Carved bone will romantically refresh clothes in dark tones (plant carving), but with denim clothes can create the image of a lively beast (geometric carving).

So, decorations of all countries, unite! If not on a specific woman, then in a separate box.

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Jewelry in the culture of the peoples of the world Presentation for 4th grade Prepared by Menderova T. Yu. KU “Specialized school of the 1st level No. 9 of Enakievo”

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Since ancient times, people have been trying to frame their appearance, emphasize beauty, or stand out socially with beautiful or simply bright jewelry. Jewelry of different nations differs in materials traditional for a particular nation. It could be a merger natural material from pebbles and blades of grass, to the skulls of animals caught while hunting, and people - usually enemies defeated in battle. But even among very ancient peoples, jewelry made of gold and silver is found in large quantities. At the same time, the status of a person was very clearly revealed both by the number of jewelry and the quality of jewelry processing. Nowadays, jewelry designers very often turn to ethnic jewelry for inspiration, borrowing both shape and ornaments from them.

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National decorations of the Caucasus Festive clothes made from expensive fabrics were decorated with braids, braids, tassels, pendants made of gold and silver threads, as well as gold and silver embroidery.

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National jewelry of Tibet Jewelry in Tibet was never worn just like that, with the purpose of decorating oneself. Jewelry in Tibet is an amulets, a bank that is always with you, and an indicator of social status. Any jewelry made from precious metals, are considered to bring good luck. Therefore, until the 50s of the 20th century, Tibetan women slept “in full dress,” without even taking off their uncomfortable headdress. The Tibetans believed that if you do not have pierced ears and do not wear earrings in them, you will definitely be born in next life donkey That's why even men wore earrings in their ears. Every self-respecting Tibetan woman should have at least a minimum of jewelry: long earrings, a pearl necklace and headdress, the design of which depends on the region in which she lives. A woman received most of her jewelry as a dowry when she got married. These could be round plates of gold or silver of various sizes, stones of turquoise and coral, amber, and sometimes pearls.

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National jewelry of India The variety of Indian jewelry knows no bounds. In addition to rings, earrings, bracelets and necklaces, there are ankle chains, toe rings, a bindi for the forehead, and nose earrings. Indian jewelry can tell you a lot about its owner. A special necklace will indicate the woman’s marriage, bracelets will indicate the number and gender of children, and the material used will indicate that she belongs to a certain caste. Indian jewelers still use the world of animals, birds and plants as inspiration. A common motif is the image of lotus flowers, jasmine, leaves of certain trees, fruits, as well as the sun and stars.

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