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Thursday, July 30, 2015

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African New Fashion Diamond Jewellery Gold Pearl Necklace Set.  
By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.

Types

African Jewelry
There are a lot of different types of African jewelry. Some of the common and special styles of jewelry are beaded jewelry, gold jewelry, cowrie shell jewelry, elephant hair jewelry and some bone jewelry.

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Dubai Pearl Diamond New Marriage Fashion Gold Jewellery Necklace Set. 
By Aamir Mannan Shiakh.

 A beadless cultured pearl (whether of freshwater or saltwater origin) may show growth rings, but also a complex central cavity, witness of the first precipitation of the young pearl sac.


Tuesday, July 28, 2015

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African New Fashion Diamond Jewellery Gold Pearl Necklace Set Earring Bracelet.  
By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.

Jewelry can stand you for many things. Sometimes jewelry can show off your wealth, keep you one with the earth, protect you from evil, or maybe will bless you with good luck and all this according to the African legend, of course.

Africans shares those traits culture with other cultures’ jewelry, but it also has interesting and a long past because they truly believe that every jewelry has something magic inside.


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Dubai Pearl Diamond New Marriage Fashion Gold Jewellery Necklace Set. 
By Aamir Mannan Shiakh.

A beaded cultured pearl shows a solid center with no concentric growth rings, whereas a natural pearl shows a series of concentric growth rings.

Monday, July 27, 2015

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African New Fashion Diamond Jewellery Gold  Necklace Set Earring.  
By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.

Even today as in the past, people in this place use African Jewelry to enhance personal beauty, personal style and in the same time displays the artistry of African craftsmen.

In all cultures of the world, jewelry is an important aspect of fashion especially for woman. Maybe this is the reason why those products are made from a variety of materials and usually of whatever resource is deemed valuable by the culture.

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Dubai Pearl Diamond New Marriage Fashion Gold Jewellery Pendent Necklace Set. 
By Aamir Mannan Shiakh.

When a cultured pearl with a bead nucleas is X-rayed, it reveals a different structure to that of a natural pearl (see diagram).

Saturday, July 25, 2015

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African New Fashion Diamond Jewellery Gold Pendent Chain.  
By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.

Usually those things were used for ritual dances, waist chains or beaded belts were used at wedding ceremonies, to celebrate happy moments in family and cowrie shells have even been used as a form of money to exchange with other products.


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Dubai Pearl Diamond New Marriage Fashion Gold Jewellery Necklace Set. 
By Aamir Mannan Shiakh.

After a bead is inserted into the oyster, it secretes a few layers of nacre around the bead; the resulting cultured pearl can then be harvested in as few as six months.


Friday, July 24, 2015

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By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.

Tribal jewelry in Africa were traditionally used to tell about something or to tell a story. Depending on the African culture and times, jewelry has been used as a cultural affiliation symbol or designated as a status.


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Dubai Pearl Diamond New Marriage Fashion Gold Jewellery Pendent Set Necklace. 
By Aamir Mannan Shiakh.

Cultured pearls can be distinguished from natural pearls by X-ray examination. Nucleated cultured pearls are often 'preformed' as they tend to follow the shape of the implanted shell bead nucleus.


Wednesday, July 22, 2015

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African New Fashion Jewellery Gold Pearl Necklace Set Earring Bracelet Ring.  
By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.

These various materials were fashioned into waist chains, necklaces, ankle chains, bracelets and head or body adornments.


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Dubai Pearl Diamond New Marriage Fashion Gold Jewellery Bracelet Pendent Set. 
By Aamir Mannan Shiakh.

Most saltwater cultured pearls are grown with beads. Tradenames of cultured pearls are Akoya, white or golden South sea, and black Tahitian. Most beadless cultured pearls are mantle-grown in freshwater shells in China, and are known as freshwater cultured pearls.


Tuesday, July 21, 2015

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African New Fashion Jewellery Gold Pearl Necklace Set.  
By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.

Tribal Jewelry

Tribal African Jewelry
Tribal Jewelry in African were made from natural materials such as amber, paper, bone, wood, ivory, metal, shells, hair, stone and a lot of other natural materials. Those materials were unique and so beautiful.

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Dubai Pearl Diamond New Marriage Fashion Gold Jewellery Necklace Set. 
By Aamir Mannan Shiakh.

There are a number of methods for producing cultured pearls: using freshwater or seawater shells, transplanting the graft into the mantle or into the gonad, and adding a spherical bead as a nucleus.


Monday, July 20, 2015

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African New Fashion Jewellery Gold Pearl Necklace Set Earring.  
By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.
Jewelry in Africa dates back thousands of years and the oldest jewelry which was find in this was discovered in a cave in South Africa and it is believed to be about 74,300 years old.

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Dubai Pearl Diamond New Marriage Fashion Gold Jewellery Necklace Set. 
By Aamir Mannan Shiakh.


A tiny piece of mantle tissue (called a graft) from a donor shell is transplanted into a recipient shell, causing a pearl sac to form into which the tissue precipitates calcium carbonate.


Sunday, July 19, 2015

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Dubai Pearl Diamond New Marriage Fashion Gold Jewellery Necklace Set. 
By Aamir Mannan Shiakh.

Cultured pearls[edit]

Main article: Cultured pearl

Nuclei from Toba Pearl Island, Japan
Cultured pearls are the response of the shell to a tissue implant.

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African New Fashion Jewellery Gold Pearl Necklace Set Earring Bracelet Ring.  
By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.

Craftsman in Africa continue to produce their beautiful traditional bead work unique to their tribe or region. Selling and producing beads and then jewelry from them has been a major source of income for many people in Africa.


Saturday, July 18, 2015

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Dubai Pearl Diamond New Marriage Fashion Gold Jewellery Necklace Set. 
By Aamir Mannan Shiakh.
When the transition to nacre secretion occurs, the brown pebble becomes covered with a nacreous coating. During this process, the pearl sac seems to travel into the shell; however, the sac actually stays in its original relative position the mantle tissue while the shell itself grows. After a couple of years, a pearl forms and the shell may be found by a lucky pearl fisher.

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African New Fashion Jewellery Gold Pearl Necklace Set Earring Bracelet.  
By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.

Jewelry in Africa is seldom just ornamental; rituals, religion and ceremonies play a large part. In Africa all people were different jewelries and to tell the truth in some cases from a very early age they started to wear them and may be replaced at a certain age or status event like reaching manhood, puberty or sometimes marriage.


Friday, July 17, 2015

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African New Fashion Jewellery Gold Pearl Necklace Set Earring Bracelet.  
By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.

African trade beads

Historically, African jewelry is also used to barter and trade with and sometimes mainly in exchange for cloth, food or other products, but most of the time they were used also more sadly for slaves.

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Dubai Pearl Diamond New Marriage Fashion Gold Jewellery Earring Necklace Set. 
By Aamir Mannan Shiakh.

The juvenile mantle tissue cells, according to their stage of growth, secrete columnar calcium carbonate from pearl sac's inner surface. In time, the pearl sac's external mantle cells proceed to the formation of tabular aragonite.


Thursday, July 16, 2015

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African New Fashion Jewellery Gold Pearl Necklace Set Earring.  
By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.

 Women of the Pokot tribe who live in Kenya and Uganda are recognized for wearing beautiful broad beaded collars and also necklaces. The women from the Turkana tribe, who normally live in the Turkana district inside Kenya’s Rift Valley Land, wear beadwork that implies their social status. Yoruba kings of Nigeria were known because of their incredible beaded crowns.


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Dubai Pearl Diamond New Marriage Fashion Gold Jewellery Earring Ring. 
By Aamir Mannan Shiakh.

Embedded in the conjunctive tissue of the mantle, these cells may survive and form a small pocket in which they continue to secrete calcium carbonate, their natural product. The pocket is called a pearl sac, and grows with time by cell division; in this way the pearl grows also.


Wednesday, July 15, 2015

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African New Fashion Jewellery Gold Pearl Necklace Set Earring Bracelet.  
By Aamir Mannan Shaikh.



Makai beaded jewelry is made based on strict tribal rules associated with the colors and layout. Makai women wear really beautiful beaded jewelry on special occasions for instance weddings.