National jewelry never goes out of style. In addition, they have long outgrown the framework of one country and have become a truly world heritage. Almost every nation has its own unique accessories that help to create different looks depending on fashion trends and your mood.

What kinds of jewelry are famous all over the world?

Necklaces from Thailand

Thai jewelry is very bright and cheerful. They can be made from any stone and in any color scheme. Colorful necklaces are great for summer. If you are a positive and lively girl, this is the option for you.

Jewelry from Hawaii

In Hawaii, jewelry is usually made from natural materials. The most common among them are: shells and pearls. An equally popular choice is Hawaiian glass, which makes very beautiful earrings and bracelets.

Beads from Ghana

In this small West African country, beads are considered the main decoration for both women and men. An incredibly beautiful combination of colors creates a feeling of unity with nature. The brown color of the beads symbolizes the earth, turquoise - the sky and water. This is how the locals interpret the color scheme of the decoration.

Navajo Decorations

The Navajo tribe lives in the southwestern United States. These few people managed to preserve their roots and tell the whole world about them through jewelry. You have probably seen turquoise necklaces, earrings and bracelets more than once. The Indians themselves believe that their national rings are endowed with magic that protects a person from enemies.

Jewelry from France

First of all, this includes the Fleur de Lis, or the fleur-de-lis. She has become an element of more than one French decoration. According to legend, the Frankish king Clovis converted to Christianity in 496. In honor of this, one of the angels gave him a lily as a sign of purification. Today this symbol is used by many brands.

Bracelets from Egypt

Egyptian bracelets could not but be included in this list. These decorations are very original and remind us of one of the most ancient civilizations in the world. Massive design and images of gods perfectly convey all the charm of this mysterious country.

Women always strive to look beautiful, but ideas about beauty differ in many countries. In this issue, you will learn about some of the ideals of female beauty in different parts of the world and unusual ways of decorating.

1. Long neck

In the photo: The necks of Padaung women do not lengthen - the shoulder girdle falls under the weight of the rings. According to another popular opinion, rings can be removed and put on without fear that the woman will die. Photo by: Justin Vidamo.

The Padaung people know firsthand that "beauty requires sacrifice." Starting from the age of 5, metal spirals made of brass with a thickness of 1 cm are wound on girls' necks. Their number only increases with age. So, the necks of older women can wrap around rings with a total height of 30 cm.

There is a version that this unusual tradition arose for the purpose of protection. Historically, Padaungs lived in the highlands in what is now Myanmar and Thailand. When husbands left in search of food, defenseless women could fall prey to tiger attacks. Thus, the hoops served as a kind of armor protecting from the predator. And although today tigers have not been observed in this area for a long time, the tradition of ringing the neck and legs has survived. In addition, women say that their men like long necks and that a girl with hoops is more likely to get married.

2. Long lip

In the photo: In addition to the Mursi, other African tribes also wear discs in the lip, in particular Surma, Kihepo and Kirdi. Photo by: Achilli Family.

Girls from the Ethiopian Mursi tribe resort to a more radical way of decorating. They pull the lower lip with a circular disc (dhebi a tugoin). When a girl turns 15-18, her mother or any other woman from the tribe cuts the girl's lower lip with a knife or arrow and inserts a stick into it. Later, it is replaced with a clay or wooden plate: at first a small one, and eventually more. Sometimes the diameter of such jewelry can reach 12-15 centimeters! To prevent the disc from pressing on the lower teeth, they are simply removed. True, not all, but 2-4 incisors. By the way, the discs can be removed during meals or before bedtime.

It is believed that the larger the disc, the higher the social status of the woman and the greater the ransom must be paid for her before the wedding. However, many Mursi girls get married before she is "awarded" with a plate. In addition, there is an opinion that the plate can speak of age - the wider the plate, the older the woman. According to another version, the size of the plate directly depends on the authority of the girl.

There is an explanation for this unusual tradition. Mursi believe that evil spirits can enter a person through the mouth. The disc in the lip prevented this. Interestingly, men do not resort to such protection. It is likely that by using such decoration, they reduce the likelihood that someone from another tribe will take their women away.

3. Elongated lobe

Photo: A Maasai woman with elongated earlobes. Photo by: William Warby.

A similar procedure is typical for another African tribe. Maasai women living in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania use a similar disc to lengthen their ears. Girls at an early age pierce the lobes with a splinter of horn. Wooden objects are inserted into the hole. Over time, the weight is increased with the help of beads and bulky jewelry until the lobe is pulled up to the shoulders. The longer the ears, the more respected and beautiful a woman is considered to be for her fellow tribesmen.

In order not to injure such beauty during walks or work, women throw a lobe over the upper edge of the ear. They also use decoration for practical purposes: they can insert the necessary objects into the hole, for example, a smoking pipe or cutlery. Interestingly, an elongated earlobe is not the only thing that makes women irresistible in the eyes of Maasai men. For the sake of beauty, Maasai women also knock out their front teeth and shave their heads.

4. Soiled body

In the photo: Himba (in the photo) is not the only tribe whose representatives smear their bodies with a special mixture. In the Angolan Mwila tribe, women cover their hair with a paste of oil, bark and dung. Photo by: Gusjer.

The women of the Himba people of northern Namibia start their day with an unusual beauty treatment. They smear themselves from head to toe with a mixture of ocher, fat and ash, even covering their hair, braided in dreadlocks. The resin of the omuzumba bush is added to the ointment - it gives a red color. This mixture not only makes Himba women attractive in the eyes of men, but also protects the skin from the scorching sun. Therefore, both men and children use this ointment. But even this is not enough to make a Himba woman look amazing. After the rite of initiation into adulthood, the four lower teeth are removed for girls.

5. Face tattoo

Photo: A Maori woman with a tattoo on her chin. Photo by: Quinn Dombrowski.

Maori women, the indigenous people of New Zealand, have long adorned themselves with tattoos. Unlike men, who covered the whole body with intricate patterns, women most often painted only the face and chin. It was believed that girls are more in need of emotional "nourishment", so the "moko" (tattoo) covered the area around the mouth. In addition, such an unusual decoration attracted representatives of the opposite sex.

The Maori borrowed the patterning technique from Polynesia. Tattooing serves for Maori and protection, and a manifestation of individuality, and a kind of passport, which could be used to learn about the character and life of its owner. Previously, this art was not available to everyone. Only representatives of the upper strata were worthy of wearing an individual tattoo. She indicated status and noble birth, so a woman with a pattern was more likely to get married. In addition, the Maori believed that drawing helped to maintain youth and beauty. Today, the art of "ta-moco", forgotten in the 19th century, is experiencing its rebirth. Many Maori people get tattoos to show their respect for the traditions of their ancestors.

6. Nose plugs

Apatani women in northeastern India pierce the wings of the nose and insert plugs called Yaping Hullo into the holes. It is believed that this tradition arose due to the fact that a long time ago, women of this people were the most beautiful in the area and suffered from increased attention from men from other tribes. So that those would not have a desire to take the beauties away, they came up with such a frightening "decoration". In addition, the girls were tattooed in a straight line from the chin to the tip of the nose. Over time, nose plugs became a common feature of women’s appearance and a distinctive feature of the tribe. Recently, however, the younger generation of the Apatani people prefer to adorn themselves in other ways.

7. Small foot

In the photo: The graceful leg of a Chinese woman. Photo from the German Federal Archives.

For the sake of beauty, Chinese women had to make serious sacrifices: from the beginning of the 10th to the beginning of the 20th century, the cult of the graceful leg was popular in the country. The top of grace was a foot 10 cm long, curved in the shape of a crescent and resembling a lotus. To achieve this effect, at 4-year-old girls, the foot was bandaged in such a way that four fingers were bent and in contact with the sole. In this position, the foot stopped growing and became deformed. A small hoof-like leg was considered a symbol of female chastity and the most attractive part of a woman's body. Beauties with bandaged legs could hardly move, limped and experienced pain when walking. But the chances of successfully getting married with the owners of lotus legs were much higher. At the beginning of the 20th century, the lotus leg went out of fashion, and Chinese women stopped suffering because of this canon of beauty.

8. Photo: X-ray of the lotus leg.

Ethnic jewelry of different peoples of the world has long attracted the best designers of our time with its ideas and beauty, peeped in the surrounding nature by the keen eye of an ancient person. We present to you a selection that is a mix of ethnic jewelry and creative solutions in the world of jewelry art today, based on ethnic motives.

Just as a good picture is framed with a wooden frame of the best quality, not skimping on the highest grades of wood, ornaments and gilding, so people from ancient times have been trying to frame their appearance, emphasize beauty or stand out socially with beautiful or simply bright decorations. At the same time, ethnic jewelry is distinguished by the originality of the ornament characteristic of a particular ethnic group.

Filigree Armor

Amber Woman (Panama)

Ethnic jewelry also differs in materials that are traditional for a particular people. It can be a fusion of natural materials from pebbles and blades of grass, to the skulls of animals caught in the hunt or typical for breeding and use in pastoralist tribes, and people - usually enemies, defeated in battle.

Ethnic jewelry by Richard Avedon

Lesley Vik Waddell Ethnic Jewelry for Swarovski Runway Rocks

But even among very ancient Nars, jewelry made of gold and silver is found in large numbers. At the same time, the status of a person was very clearly revealed both in the number of jewelry and in the quality of jewelry processing.

Ethnic Jewelry Kirsten Hood Back

Ethnic jewelry from the collection "Temptation of Mata Hari"

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

Nigerian bride on her wedding day

Indian tribe representative at Hornbill Festival

At the same time, neither her appearance, nor purely feminine qualities, such as thriftiness and motherhood, had such significant significance for those around her as, for example, the total weight of gold bracelets on her arms and legs.

A Songhai woman in Gao Market (Africa) with a complex hairstyle typical of her tribe. Used old French and British silver coins, their age is over a hundred years. Photographer Nigel Pavitt

Ethnic jewelry. Iraq

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

Ethnic jewelry of Tibet. Tibetan woman's hands adorned with 24K gold and coral rings

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

Ethnic Jewelry for Costume by shimmies

Nowadays, jewelry designers very often turn to ethnic jewelry for inspiration, borrowing both form and ornaments from them. The result is ethnic jewelry, passed through the prism of 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 tribe woman, Morocco. 1950g

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

Ethnic jewelry of a Shunam woman.

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

Woman of the Karo tribe, Ethiopia

Gujarat woman

Ethnic style jewelry by Alexis Bittar

Ethnic 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 in national costumes from childhood. One - the impeccably reliable "Europeans" of Mattel, the other - "fifteen sister republics" produced by the Soviet Motherland. The prefabricated series were sometimes supplemented with “bonuses”, for example - beauties in furs from the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug. All these young ladies were supplied with sets of "jewelry" - almost always, alas, not removable. Girls and boys studied their first samples of traditional jewelry of the peoples of the world just like that - just 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 smoother fashionable stylization with "folk elements".

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

Examples of traditional jewelry of different nations

Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan

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

As part of the folk costume, jewelry indicated the national (tribal) affiliation and status of a person. 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 peoples of the world

Kenya, China, Baltic countries:

India, Tibet, Turkmenistan:

Connoisseurs of long-distance travel are especially familiar with the phenomenon of "national decoration" - the most popular version of a souvenir. Usually this is a handicraft 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 are well read. In the minds of the majority, the shamrock is Ireland, the lily is France, the Star of David is Israel, the auseklis is the morning star, the Latvian national symbol. So reality, reduced to ornament, becomes a national emblem.

Shamrock, claddah (symbol of friendship and loyalty), Celtic knot, triskelion and other symbols of Ireland:

French lily (fleur-de-lys):

Latvian "morning star" (auseklis):

Israeli Star of David, hand of David (hamsa):

Jewelry traditions of the East and Asia

The women of the East and Asia adorn themselves tirelessly and skillfully. Jewelry plays a key role in this process.

India, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal

Mongolian ethnic groups from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan

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

Casket of Europe

Traditional jewelry of the Baltic countries

The jewelry "load" of, say, Estonians was hardly inferior to the ammunition of the eastern sisters. Neck and breast jewelry made of silver was in use: brooches, cone-shaped brooches "kuchik-rash" (the author personally lost one, which she extremely regrets), flat, decorated with stones at the edges of "prees", woven chains, large, hollow inside beads "wing".

Ukrainian national jewelry

Now listen carefully: branzoleta, hryvnia, zaushnitsa, 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.

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

Necklace-amulets "zgardi" with Hutsul crosses:

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

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

Jewelry traditions of the peoples of the Caucasus

The Caucasus is justly proud of its jewelry crafts: by the end of the 19th century, the Dagestan (kubachi), Tbilisi, and Vladikavkaz schools dominated there. Armenian craftsmen worked mainly 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 beading is an extremely popular mass hobby on the verge of fishing. Of course, this should also include bone carving (Yakut, Kholmogorsk, Khotkovskaya). “Under tsarism,” craftsmen artistically carved caskets, cups, etc.

Folk trail of folk decorations

How do real artifacts (that is, authentic national jewelry) end up in the family caskets 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 "one for this" during the war, not to mention trophy souvenirs. Another way is the venerable purchase of "antiquity" in thrift stores and flea markets.

Of course, even today you can find there are places where masters sit and create national jewelry. But - sales? How many of us, alternately seven days a week, are adorned with Kholmogory bone carving, Rostov enamel (in its classic style), Nizhny Novgorod filigree, Palekh and Fedoskino bracelets and brooches? There is no prophet in your homeland - remember "The Scarlet Flower"? "Bring me, father, ZAMORSKY's headdress."

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Jewelry in the culture of the peoples of the world Presentation for grade 4 Prepared by T. Yu. Menderova KU "Specialized school of the 1st stage No. 9 in Yenakiyevo"

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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 decorations. Decorations of different peoples differ in materials that are traditional for one or another people. It can be a fusion of natural material from pebbles and blades of grass, to the skulls of animals caught in the hunt, and people - as a rule, enemies defeated in battle. But even among very ancient peoples, jewelry made of gold and silver is found in large numbers. At the same time, the status of a person was very clearly revealed both in the number of jewelry and in the quality of jewelry processing. Nowadays, jewelry designers very often turn to ethnic jewelry for inspiration, borrowing both form and ornaments from them.

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National ornaments of the Caucasus Festive clothing sewn from expensive fabrics was decorated with braids, braids, tassels, pendants made of gold and silver threads, as well as gold and silver embroidery.

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National decorations of Tibet Jewelry in Tibet was never worn just for the purpose of decorating oneself. Jewelry in Tibet is both amulets, a bank that is always with you, and an indicator of social status. Any jewelry made from precious metals is considered lucky. Therefore, up to the 50s of the twentieth century, Tibetan women slept "with full parade", without even taking off an uncomfortable headdress. The Tibetans believed that if your ears are not pierced and you do not wear earrings in them, then you will definitely be born in your next life as a donkey. Therefore, 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 a headdress, the design of which depends on the region in which she lives. The woman received most of the jewelry as a dowry when she got married. It could be round plates of gold or silver of various sizes, stones of turquoise and coral, amber, sometimes pearls.

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National Jewelry of India The variety of Indian jewelry knows no boundaries. In addition to rings, earrings, bracelets and necklaces, there are ankle chains, toe rings, bindi forehead jewelry, and nose earrings. You can learn a lot about the owner from Indian jewelry. A special necklace will indicate the woman's marriage, bracelets - the number and gender of children, and the material of manufacture - about belonging to a particular caste. Indian jewelers still use the world of animals, birds and plants as inspiration. A widespread motif of images of lotus flowers, jasmine, leaves of certain trees, fruits, as well as the sun and stars.

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