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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9850529, member: 2844"]Probably due to all those sellers out there who don't know ethnic jewellery, and call everything Tibetan because the name sells.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Tibet has always had a fairly small population, there were never enough craftspeople to have made all that jewellery wrongly attributed to Tibet.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The jewellery the Tibetans do make is usually excellent quality, often with high fineness silver and a lot of turquoise. Coral, amber and copal (pre-amber stage of fossilisation) are also favourites.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nepal and Bhutan have styles related to Tibet, although Nepal is clearly a stylistic bridge between the Indian and Himalayan culture. Nepalese craftspeople are very prolific, but Bhutanese pieces are extremely rare.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9850529, member: 2844"]Probably due to all those sellers out there who don't know ethnic jewellery, and call everything Tibetan because the name sells.:( Tibet has always had a fairly small population, there were never enough craftspeople to have made all that jewellery wrongly attributed to Tibet.;) The jewellery the Tibetans do make is usually excellent quality, often with high fineness silver and a lot of turquoise. Coral, amber and copal (pre-amber stage of fossilisation) are also favourites. Nepal and Bhutan have styles related to Tibet, although Nepal is clearly a stylistic bridge between the Indian and Himalayan culture. Nepalese craftspeople are very prolific, but Bhutanese pieces are extremely rare.[/QUOTE]
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