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Atmospheric entry in a one-man shuttle is always dangerous. Then, when you see beads of smart fluid begin to condense outside the port, you begin to wonder whether you should have taken the trouble to translate the phrase পাশবিক ন্যানো কন্সট্রাকটর which kept popping up on the display.
Seed Beads and Thread embroidery on photograph of abstract weaving. Light wood shadowbox frame, 12" x 15", 2023
Tree bark, silk thread, glass beads, vintage faux pearls.
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imitative beach pebble in gemstone wire frame. One of my "picasso art pendants". I make variious styles, but this one is my biggest. Sold right away.
Teenage khampa girl at Litang horse festival stringing dzi and coral beads to make jewelry for her hair. Like many of the wealthy Khampa Tibetans who took part in the costume exhibition, she wears chunky gold saddle rings on most fingers, and multiple necklaces of coral and dzi beads (each with a value worth years of an average Tibetan salary). The rest of her costume and ornaments are worth even more
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Ornaments make up most of the life savings of many Khampa families, and so play an important role in Tibetan families' lives as well as in announcing the social status of the wearers. They are saved up for over many years and handed down for centuries from generation to generation within families. Until very recently, these families were nomadic and have to move every few months because of the snowy seasons in the Himalayas, so Khampas have always needed to store their wealth in portable form. So being unable to store wealth in the form of estates or houses or land or in a bank, for millenia wealth has been stored in art, precious fabrics, and particularly into ornaments.
Their culture is very conservative about the type of ornaments favored: for thousands of years jewelry made from amber, turquoise and coral have been worn because the stones are believed to hold spiritual power. Gold and silver and also naturally found in Tibet, and the use of these metals by the wealthy also goes back thousands of years. Their ornaments are very chunky, bold and colorful. While the gold earrings that Khampa women wear may have cost them a year or maybe several year's of their salary, ornaments carry so much social status in their society that probably didn't have to think twice about the purchase.
To the Khampa people these ornaments have the utmost sentimental value and significance, because they are the physical remnants of generations of their ancestors hard work or success. what these people are wearing is not just their life savings, but also their family history and treasure. this culture has been around for millenia - archeological finds from the 1st century AD in the khampa area unearthed ornaments that are essentially the same in design and materials as today's are. there are also beliefs that the stones provide good luck and protection to disease. dyed red coral is the most sought after stone, but interestingly tibet is very very far from any oceans - all the coral is imported by traders! Religious symbols from Tibetan Buddhism frequency form the designs of pieces, however archeological finds show that the role of ornaments in Tibetan society and peoples' lives long predate the arrival of Buddhism in Tibet. Indeed the beliefs of spiritual protection being provided by coral, amber and turquoise probably originate from the ancient shamanic Bon religion.
With the fiberglass under the windscreen cleaned and the top lip of the dash done the now paint stripped beading under the windscreen could be fully fitted.
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Happy beading!
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