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Crafts of the Past

A look back at ancestral handicrafts such as knapping flint tools, creating silver filigree, preparing gold amalgam for coating silver, creating ceramic objects, winding glass beads and more.

  1. Antique Gilded Silver Turkoman Turkmen Asik circa Nineteen Hundred

    by on 01-03-2012 at 02:49 PM (Crafts of the Past)
    Quote Originally Posted by CraftsofthePast View Post

    The tripartite Turkoman Turkmen Asik in gilded silver decorated with table cut carnelians and hung on its original leather cord represents the family: father, mother and child.
    This piece is known as gosa-asyk. The traditional design is an alignment of three plaques suggestive of heart shapes to Western mindsets or representing parts of female bodies in the Turkoman mindset.
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  2. Antique Gold Layered Silver Turkoman Tumar Bozbend

    by on 01-02-2012 at 10:31 AM (Crafts of the Past)
    Quote Originally Posted by CraftsofthePast View Post
    Antique Gold Layered Silver Turkoman Tumar Bozbend
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    Antique Turkoman tribal tumar bozbend patterned amulet, commemorating ancestors in the nine blossom motifs along the top edge of the mountain symbol and reflected in the same number of pendants attached to the bozbend tube.

    The coins and bell beads show some dates probably preceding the time frame in which the tumar bozbend was created. They date from the 1200s and 1300s of the Moslem A.
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