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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9825333, member: 2844"]Knot jewellery is thousands of years old, and it often had to do with 'tying the knot'. Tying the knot either meant tying hands together with rope, or tightening a knotted handkerchief which held coins.</p><p>So a knot can be called a lovers' knot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Algerian sailors used to make intricately knotted rope art to give to their sweethearts. That is why more intricate knots, like the ones on this brooch, are often known as Algerian knots.</p><p>They became very fashionable after Napoleon's North African campaign, because among the things he brought back were those intricate Algerian knot decorations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9825333, member: 2844"]Knot jewellery is thousands of years old, and it often had to do with 'tying the knot'. Tying the knot either meant tying hands together with rope, or tightening a knotted handkerchief which held coins. So a knot can be called a lovers' knot. Algerian sailors used to make intricately knotted rope art to give to their sweethearts. That is why more intricate knots, like the ones on this brooch, are often known as Algerian knots. They became very fashionable after Napoleon's North African campaign, because among the things he brought back were those intricate Algerian knot decorations.[/QUOTE]
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