Early 20th century, Morocco
Jewels collects these wonderful charms (once hair charms woven into strands for a show stopping look) when she can find them so well loved and worn that they look like glass and stone. Usually she finds one or a small handfull but about a year and half ago she found a great collection, miraculously, and this is the last of this style she can make. Khadija, in our Marrakech studio, wove each very fine rondelle, the necklace and stitched the leather to perfection. It’s like an Amazigh queen’s Elizabethan collar.
One of a kind
Average charm: 1 1/2 x 1 1/8″
Approximately 18″ long
A note about our woven cords. We weave these by hand, every one of them. Like all Jewels’ work no two are exact, as each of us. The work is labor intensive. When warmed to the skin the cord becomes more supple, conforms to the wearer, hangs at it should; the necklace transforms more than just a necklace. It becomes her or him.