Starseed Handmade Jewelry

Black Bold Gold

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 19:05:00 +0000

Black Bold Gold by lilihiphulahop on Polyvore

Colorbox Art Screens 6"x6" Stencil Stripes
580 RSD - franticstamper.com

Jewelry Inspiration

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 13:49:00 +0000

>>> One of my favorite color combination is White & Gold and Black & Gold. This is a Polyvore set I made to be inspired for my next jewelry collection. Visit my Instagram account or FB Page if you want to see what I've been making lately.

Psssssssssst! by lilihiphulahop featuring an ivory sculpture

NOVICA ivory sculpture
5830 RSD - novica.com

Autumn Melody_by GalinaV_paper (6).jpg
fotki.yandex.ru

black_angel_wings_by_marioara08-d3b3rx5.png
fotki.yandex.ru

WORDS OF INSPIRATION | MAKE DREAMS HAPPEN (Cocorrina)
bloglovin.com

Swatch of Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Perversion
popsugar.com

MiMiConcept-Sweet Vintage-elements (71).png
fotki.yandex.ru

Star shape
polyvore.com

Enter a Free Giveaway on my Instagram Account!

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:38:00 +0000

>>> Yep ;)! It is running on my Instagram account until Sunday, October 23rd, 2016. Type in @starseed.jewelry on your Instagram search box and follow the rules. The winner will be announced next day, Monday, Oct. 24th. Good Luck!

Kitty Goes To Paris Wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 20:37:00 +0000

Kitty Goes To Paris Wedding by lilihiphulahop featuring a textured painting

Rosanna ceramic wall art
2225 RSD - lordandtaylor.com

Gold statue
1030 RSD - etsy.com

Canvas home decor
art.com

Textured painting
apt2b.com

Make your own magic :)

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:04:00 +0000

Make your own magic :) by lilihiphulahop featuring a brush strokes painting

Long length dress
18225 RSD - amazon.com

Moe s Home Collection brush strokes painting
17815 RSD - cymax.com

Black cat painting
2825 RSD - etsy.com

Frames, Photo Frames, Picture Frames
free-photo-frames.com

watermelon spit
passingluck.tumblr.com

Genlux Editorial Candy Island, Summer 2009 Shot #4 - MyFDB
myfdb.com

21 Fun Inspirational Quotes To Get You Ready For The Weekend because...
becauseimaddicted.net

Instagram photo by Starseed Jewelry ? • Oct 9, 2016 at 4:27pm UTC
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Working on new mini jewelry line - take a look at work in progess

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 09:29:00 +0000

>>> Recently, I decided to give a go at Instagram and didn't need too long to get totally hooked. Part of Instagram community that I am interested in reminds me of a real life market place, with actual real traders, sellers, artists, artisans etc., and they seem to be very responsive, while actively being involved in promoting their products or services or exchanging their knowledge, experience or anything else they are willing to share. In spite of annoying attention seekers, who are not interested in mutual engagement, support, etc., but are rather eager for boosting the number of their followers, I find Instagram, in general, a very positive place to be. Time invested in it is worthwhile. The fact that Instagram is designed to be a mobile application, makes it a very special online universe that pushes you to be focused and make very specific and targeted searches. Since I am new there and being overwhelmed with it, I have neglected a little bit my good, old blog, a platform that I'm always returning to :). So here's what I've been doing lately.

>>> Since I have a large stockpile of tiny seed beads in various colors, and the same goes for thin wire and even scrap wire that I wanted to use, I have decided to go back to bridal pieces since they are the best for fine work, beads and wire.

>>> Bellow is the necklace that is good for bridesmaids, too. I used leftovers of brass wire for branches and wire crochet leaves I made for another project, long time ago.

>>> This is how it looked before I assembled elements into a necklace.

>>> Here's how it all started, leftover beads and wire as inspiration :).

>>> With scrap wire being short you can't really plan dimensions, so I decided to go with irregular shapes and free forms.

>>> Before that I have made a two piece bridal set in mauve and dark brown tones.

>>> In spite of a lot of beads used it came out very lightweight.

>>> It makes beautiful lights reflections and interesting shadows on the walls :).

>>> Close up on earrings, and it seems that I was much more fascinated with them...

>>>...than my cat :)!

>>> Working with beads is also a kind of color therapy, you can be sure :)!

Free Gift for beaders: PENDANT WITH “PIROT KILIM” MOTIF

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 14:38:00 +0000

PENDANT WITH “PIROT KILIM” MOTIF W/INSTRUCTIONS

>>> Before proceeding with instructions, just a few introductory notes about Pirot Kilim. I'll make it short this time, because the post is going to be a long one, anyway. I feel sorry that we here don't realize that world is going crazy about this type of rugs/kilims and don't push it harder to promote a variant, typical for this part of the world. Pirot is a little town in southern Serbia, with a long tradition in weaving. Color combinations are beautiful, motifs are influenced partially by Turkish textiles from the time of Ottoman Empire, and there are some motifs that are genuine to this part of the world and that existed before the Ottoman Empire. The technique of weaving is though quite unique and extremely time consuming, but kilim is the same from both sides, there are no knots between the color sections, no visible yarn ends. Original Pirot Kilims, made in certified weaving workshops, are of exquisite quality.

On the picture below is a sample card from the beginning of the 20th century, that belonged to one of those workshops and used to help the clients deciding which carpet they want. Incorporating these motifs into modern jewelry, textile or even architecture, is one way to keep them alive.

Vintage sample card, with motifs;

>>> Bellow is the drawing for a pendant inspired by one of those motifs, but if you make it with larger beads, it can be a wall decoration, too, or something else.

The drawing of a pendat;

>>> The pendant is divided into three sections: the top one, the middle one, with a motif and the bottom one, with fringes. Here are drawings, followed by written instructions. You can always zoom them in case you are not sure about something written in instructions. Please, bear in mind that English is not my native language :), if something sounds weird, you know why!

Technical drawing of the top section;

Technical drawing of a middle section, with a motif;

Technical drawing of a bottom section, with fringes;

NOTE: make sure to follow the written instructions,

because here I made some minor mistakes :) However,

use it to see how to distribute the fringes;

>>> Here are the instructions:

INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEADING: PENDANT WITH “PIROT KILIM” MOTIF

It is up to you to decide which technique to use: bead loom weaving, or needle work. However, fringes need to be sewn. Use a very thin, long needle, as well as thread (it’s best to use nylon thread) because, in order to secure and hide thread ends you will need to go through beads in and out, sometimes more than once. Use the smallest size Delica beads, because, this pendant is going to be huge, even with them. Use this chart as an example, but you can always decide yourself about the colors. An estimate of total beads for this project would be around 5000 beads J! You can plan to buy appx. some 2750 of Brown beads, 1320 of Green ones and 960 of Pink. Add some extra for each color, in case there are irregular or broken beads. Plus, you will need 11 bigger size beads for fringes ends, in green color. You can now start beading, as follows:

1^st ROW (BROWN) 8 beads

2^nd ~ 10 ~

3^rd ~ 12 ~

4^th ~ 14 ~

5^th ~ 16 ~

6^th ~ 18 ~

7^th ~ 20 ~

8^th ~ 22 ~

9^th ~ 24 ~

10^th ~ 26 ~

11^th ~ 28 ~

12^th ~ 30 ~

13^th ~ 32 ~

14^th ~ 34 ~

15^th ~ 36 ~

16^th ~ 38 ~

17^th ~ 40 ~

18^th ~ 42 ~

19^th ~ 44 ~

20^th ~ 46 ~

21^st ~ 48 ~

22^nd ~ 50 ~

23^rd ~ 52 ~

24^th ~ 54 ~

25^th ~ 56 ~

26^th ~ 58 ~

27^th ~ 60 ~

28^th ~ 60 ~

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29^th BROWN-PINK-BROWN

13-36-13

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30^th BROWN-PINK-GREEN-PINK-BROWN

12-1-36-1-12

31^st BROWN-PINK-GREEN-PINK-BROWN

1-11-38-11-1

32^nd B-P-G-P-G-P-G-P-B

1-1-17-8-8-8-17-1-1

33^rd B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

2-1-15-1-8-1-6-1-8-1-15-1-2

34^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

3-1-13-1-10-1-4-1-10-1-13-1-3

35^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

4-1-11-1-10-1-6-1-10-1-11-1-4

36^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

5-1-9-1-10-1-8-1-10-1-9-1-5

37^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

6-1-7-1-5-6-10-6-5-1-7-1-6

38^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

7-1-5-1-6-1-20-1-6-1-5-1-7

39^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

1-8-3-1-8-1-18-1-8-1-3-8-1

40^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

1-1-9-1-10-1-16-1-10-1-9-1-1

41^st B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

2-1-7-1-12-1-14-1-12-1-7-1-2

42^nd B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

3-1-5-1-14-1-12-1-14-1-5-1-3

43^rd B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

4-1-3-1-16-1-10-1-16-1-3-1-4

44^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

5-1-1-1-7-12-8-12-7-1-1-1-5

45^th B-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-B

6-1-8-1-30-1-8-1-6

46^th B-P-G-P-B

16-1-28-1-16

47^th B-P-G-P-B

17-1-26-1-17

48^th

B-P-G-P-B

18-1-24-1-18

49^th B-P-G-P-B

19-1-22-1-19

50^th B-P-G-P-B

20-1-20-1-20

51^st B-G-G-B

22-18-18-22

52^nd B-P-G-P-B

7-16-16-16-7

53^rd B-P-G-P-B

6-1-48-1-6 HALF OF THE MOTIF

THE OTHER HALF OF THE MOTIF

(in a mirror like order)

54^th B-P-G-P-B

6-1-48-1-6

55^th B-P-G-P-B

7-16-16-16-7

56^th B-G-G-B

22-18-18-22

57^th B-P-G-P-B

20-1-20-1-20

58^th B-P-G-P-B

19-1-22-1-19

59^th B-P-G-P-B

18-1-24-1-18

60^th B-P-G-P-B

17-1-26-1-17

61^st B-P-G-P-B

16-1-28-1-16

62^ndB-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-B

6-1-8-1-30-1-8-1-6

63^rd B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

5-1-1-1-7-12-8-12-7-1-1-1-5

64^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

4-1-3-1-16-1-10-1-16-1-3-1-4

65^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

3-1-5-1-14-1-12-1-14-1-5-1-3

66^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

2-1-7-1-12-1-14-1-12-1-7-1-2

67^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

1-1-9-1-10-1-16-1-10-1-9-1-1

68^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

1-8-3-1-8-1-18-1-8-1-3-8-1

69^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

7-1-5-1-6-1-20-1-6-1-5-1-7

70^th B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

6-1-7-1-5-6-10-6-5-1-7-1-6

71^st B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

5-1-9-1-10-1-8-1-10-1-9-1-5

72^nd B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

4-1-11-1-10-1-6-1-10-1-11-1-4

73^rd B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

3-1-13-1-10-1-4-1-10-1-13-1-3

74^thB-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B-P-G-P-B

2-1-15-1-8-1-6-1-8-1-15-1-2

75^th B-P-G-P-G-P-G-P-B

1-1-17-8-8-8-17-1-1

76^th BROWN-PINK-GREEN-PINK-BROWN

1-11-38-11-1

77^th BROWN-PINK-GREEN-PINK-BROWN

12-1-36-1-12

78^th BROWN-PINK-BROWN

13-36-13

END OF THE MOTIF AND BEGINNING OF BEAD FRINGES. There are eleven fringes. Zoom the photo with the fringes section to be able to see how to distibute them. End each fringe with one larger green bead. Here’s the color way:

1^st and 11^thfringe =>

From first to 14^th row sew 2 brown beads in each row. From 15^th to 28^th row sew 2 pink beads in each row. End with 1 larger, green bead.

2^nd and 10^thfringe =>

Extend each color section for 4 rows, for a total of 18 rows with 2 brown beads and 18 rows with 2 pink beads.

3^rd and 9^thfringe =>

Extend each color section for another 4 rows, making a total of 22 rows with 2 brown beads, followed by 22 rows with 2 pink beads.

4^th and 8^thfringe =>

Extend each color section for another 4 rows, making a total of 26 rows with 2 brown beads, followed by 26 rows with 2 pink beads.

5^th and 7^thfringe =>

Extend each color section for another 4 rows, making a total of 30 rows with 2 brown beads, followed by 30 rows with 2 pink beads.

6^th fringe (the middle one) =>

The last one fringe consists of 34 rows with 2 brown beads and 34 rows with 2 pink beads.

Don’t forget to end each fringe with one larger, green beads.

Note: this pendant is going to be really huge, depending of bead size, proportions may be, at least, 6(8) X18(20) cm. In case you want the pendant to be supported with round circle Torque, as it needs to be pulled through, plan to add additional 8-10 rows at the beginning of the pendant, to be able to fold it back and make a tube. You also may add additional, for example, gem beads instead of a classic chain, it’s really up to you. Finally, use the pattern to alternate it according to your own needs.

Have a great beading J!

Mauve Wedding Bridal Tiara

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 20:03:00 +0000

>>> A new set I have made on my Polyvore account, featuring new bridal tiara and earrings, in brown, pink and mauve tones. I think it's good for you ginger hairs :). Go with a simple dress, with fine pleats and deep "V" cut on a back, made of a some gorgeous, lightweight fabric and lacy booties in ecru tones. Good for weddings with a mauve and lilac color theme :).

Note: Photos of two beautiful ginger hair girls are not mine, I give credit to authors and will remove them on request.

Mauve Wedding by lilihiphulahop featuring nars cosmetics

Funtasma bootie boots
6790 RSD - shoebuy.com

Bobbi brown cosmetic
3070 RSD - barneys.com

Nars cosmetic
2985 RSD - liberty.co.uk

My new necklace on Polyvore Set

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 20:25:00 +0000

>>> Not much, just that for today :).

Read me :)! by lilihiphulahop featuring two-piece dresses

Two piece dress
43280 RSD - 1stdibs.com

Paul Andrew suede shoes
44815 RSD - barneyswarehouse.com

Chanel drawstring backpack
portero.com

Chanel brooch
19700 RSD - vestiairecollective.com

Lipstick Queen lipstick
4275 RSD - net-a-porter.com

Mixed Style Necklace With Red Beads

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:13:00 +0000

>>> This bracelet is made for a woman who likes red color and bold, statement jewelry. While it was not my intention, the end result came out somewhat ethnic/tribal, which is even better than I hoped :). All of the components are handmade, from brass wire in various gauges. As for beads, I used transparent round glass beads, seed beads and red coral beads. It is a very time consuming piece, it's not ready yet, but I had to check the camera look :). When I finish it, I'll put it on a display model and take one more shoot, so you can guess the size and proportions.

>>> Update: Necklace on a model display;

Golden Brown Texture Like Sun :)

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 20:43:00 +0000

>>> In addition to works from the post bellow - some more brown tones. Do you like Autumn like I do :)? More browns, more wind, more rain and umbrellas, less people on the streets, less noise...more of nice, clear and fresh air. Can't wait!

Multistructural Wire Necklace, Comb and Earrings - Multistrukturalni rad u žici: ogrlica, češljić i minđuše

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 19:56:00 +0000

>>> Here I am again writing about how much I wanted to make wire work like this, but was not sure how. I didn't even know how to search for eventual tutorial and which term to use - wire curling, complex wire work, multilayered wire jewelry? I checked a lot of videos available on internet, but nothing like that something I have had in my mind. I studied photos of other jewelry designers, mostly Russians, who seem to have natural talent for this kind of work, but I'm not sure if I figured out how they do it. I have had a lot of trials, but all came unsuccessful, with my wire all crooked up and asymmetric.

>>> That's why I prefer free style jewelry making :), but this came as a real challenge, for many reasons. First one comes in form of question "How to tame the wire so it curves the way I want?" Once you bent it and you don't like the way it looks, there are poor chances that you can reverse it the way it was before and fix the mistake. The wire will be crooked, it will have ugly angles and this work is all about smooth, flowing lines. You can see it on the pendant bellow, though I still like how it came out in the end. I was wondering should I preheat the wire and make it softer. But I discovered it is not necessary.

>>> My next dilemma was how many pieces of wire should I use and how long they should be? I think it can be as many as you like and they can be as long as you want. I have found the way it works for me, though I still have to practice. A lot :)! Maybe I'll discover the way that is even more convenient. So far, I'm closer to what I wanted to achieve.

>>> Did I made a sketches, drawings or anything like that? Not in this case. I have had a general idea in my mind. And that's the part I like about this. Here's what's the challenging thing about this technique - you really have to think hard and ahead about each step, for the reason I already mention. Once you curve the wire, there's nothing like Undo and Redo option that is good enough. At least not with the tools and work conditions I currently have. You have to anticipate in advance how the curve will appear if you go left or right, down or under the layers of wire you already made. That's why this technique is also a very meditative one.

Next challenge is achieving symmetry and I think this technique is an excellent exercise, both for your left and right brain hemisphere :). I do have a trouble to achieve perfect symmetry, with tools I have. And I like to work with as little as possible tools. So I think minor imperfections are even more charming, because I also don't like when handmade jewelry is way too perfect, it reminds me then of machine made jewelry.

>>> I am not a very patient jewelry maker, I want to have a clue from the begging how the work will look in the end. When I was making a pendant for the necklace above, many times I wanted to give up. Because the base of the work looked awful and not promising. But I kept working with a hope that next layers will be more defined and I'm glad now I did so.

>>> Next challenge comes in a form of questions like - when to stop? Should I add more wires, or should I cut the wire I already work with?

>>> Should I proceed upward, sideward or downward? A lot of decisions to make :).

>>> And finally, here comes a tricky one. The earrings from the picture above and bellow. As you can see I have made two same side earrings. That was not my goal... They should have been mirror like, but I was not able to achieve it. That's because I was making them simultaneously. If my task was to make one earring like that, it would be very easy to make. It's kind of free form wire work. An erring alone is not symmetrical. But since we, unfortunatelly :), have two ears, I (unfortunatelly :) had to make two earrings. And making another, same earring is not the work I enjoy the most :).

>>> Here, I was faced with another kind of challenge, making two earrings simultaneously. An earring alone is not symmetrical, but another one should be mirror-like-symmetrical. I was completely confused and wasn't able to repeat the same but mirror-like step on another earring. So if there are a persons with two left or two right ears, these earring are just the right one pair for them :).

Copper Wire Diadem - Dijadema od bakarne žice

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 13:12:00 +0000

>>> Copper Wire Diadem; Copper, freshwater pearls, clear and frosted glass beads; Technique: wire wrap; Oxidized for antique look;

>>> <<<

<<< Dijadema od bakarne žice;bakar, sedef, providne i peskirane staklene perle;Tehnika: wire wrap; Patinirano;

I listen to my wire and do what it tells me to do ;P - Slušam svoju žicu i radim onako kako ona kaže ;)

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 19:37:00 +0000

>>> When I have to say something about a jewelry piece that I was working on, most of the time I lack the words. Like now, but I'll try. Maybe this is going to be a story about how you plan in your mind an entirely different jewelry line and end up with a piece that you wanted to make for a long time, but was not sure how. And for a long time I wanted to make piece like this. First I made a drawing and got almost what I wanted..well, this is just the first piece and I hope to perfect the technique with a practice. The end result is different than the initial idea, but sometime wire tells itself what needs to be done, instead. And I listen to wire :). It told me that it wants to curve out when I wanted to curve it in and that I need to fill the gaps with more beads.

>>> It surprised me the way it curved toward the back of the work, making the spine-like structure that looks totally weird, maybe gothic :)? I'd like to know, if you're an wire artist, too, does the same happens to you and do you stick to your initial plan/drawing/idea or you go with the flow and make the changes along the way? Because, in this case: 1) I wanted to use red stones, but picked purple ones instead?! 2) I wanted to hang the pendant on a wiking knit chain. And I tried to make one, and I tried, and tried, but kept failing and didn't manage to make the chain that I like and that doesn't have the wire ends that poke badly. 3) Than I decided to use the cord which I knotted in a "Bumblebee" Celtic Knot, but now I don't like the color. But I like that I tried to make a Celtic Know :). Than, now I have to think about something else to replace it.

>>> There is something that I like, and it's the way I finished the cord ends and the closure :).

>>> For those who are new to wire-work, this was made from a copper wire, in a wire wrap and wire weave technique and a little bit of hammering. Beads are color jade and frosted clear glass beads. Oxidized for a antique look.

>>> The front of the pendant is slightly bent outwards while the back goes in and out, which gives a piece a 3 D effect, together with a central bead.

>>> I almost like the back of the work more than front, I would (personally) wear it that way - back side front :)!

>>> In the end, it is not what was intended to be, it is what is meant to be :)!

Ice Age Bracelets And Headband With Geometric Motifs - Narukvice i krunica sa geometrijskim motivima, iz ledenog doba

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:54:00 +0000

>>> I am a great fan of prehistoric art and have been both blessed and cursed to live in a part of the world called Balkan peninsula. For now, I'll leave bad sides and mention only good ones, those that make me happy to live in an area that is so rich with history and archaeological sites like Lepenski Vir, Starcevo, Vinca, Butmir, Vucedol, etc. and that is not far away from other neighboring cultures like Cucuteni-Trypillian and Karanovo-Gumelnitsa, which all together seem to be a part of one huge ( and highly neglected by modern day scholars ) Old European Culture or Old Danube Civilization, which was spread widely in time and space: It lasted from as early as from 27,000 BCE until 3,000 BCE and covered modern day countries like all of ex-YU countries, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Albania, North Italy, parts of Greece, Turkey and huge parts, if not all, of Ukraine, Russia, etc.

Today I want to mention two prehistoric artifacts from Ukraine and one from Russia. Just the bare thought of them induces chills going down my spine. They might be the oldest known artifacts with meandering and zigzag/chevron motifs, ever found. They are 20,000 years old, at least, and are carved in mammoth bone and tusks.

1. ORNAMENTED BRACELET FROM MEZIN, UKRAINE, ENGRAVED OUT OF MAMMOTH IVORY

>>> Ukraine is blessed with with an abundance of Paleolithic sites. Although artifacts made primarily from mammoth bones and tusks are known from ancient settlements throughout Eurasia, they are mainly concentrated in the north-western tributaries of the Dnipro River basin and in the Crimea, making Ukraine an ideal area in which to study Paleolithic society. Those settlements have been dated by 14C isotope analysis to between 27,000 and 12,000 BCE.

Paleolithic bracelet with meandering and zigzag patterns; Mezin,Ukraine;

>>> Before I start going into details, I'd like to mention again Lepenski Vir and Vinca culture, which I am especially fond of, because they are a part of the local history and tradition. I have always wondered about geometric motifs that were carved in stones found in Lepenski Vir and on famous clay Goddess figurines, found in Vinca. They have the same meandering and "V" lines motifs. On Vinca's figurines we can see them mostly as segments of an imaginary overall designs. I always wanted to know the meaning behind those motifs, what do they represent? Do they represent a river flow, a labyrinth, a stork fly, celestial skies, a female principle or something else? Here, in Serbia, we have at least two rivers with a beautifully defined meandering curves, Uvac and Morava. Could it be that Vinca's people simply used it as an art expression of things they have been seeing around?

Above are photos of two carved stones with meandering pattern, from Lepenski Vir, Serbia, a pintadera in the shape of left leg, with zigzag pattern (Starčevo-Criş culture, 6200-5500 BCE) and a female idol clay figurine from Vinca, Serbia, with engraved segments of meandering motif and V lines;

Photo sources: www.narodnimuzej.rs, atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com, philipcoppens.com,

>>> We can see the same patterns also in Cucuteni-Trypillian and Karanovo-Gumelnitsa cultures:

Above are photos of two clay idols with meandering patterns, one from Karanovo-Gumelnitsa culture, another from Cucuteni -Trypillian, two clay figurines of men and women showing body tattoo with a zigzag pattern and a pottery vase with a large meandering motifs, both from Cucuteni-Trypillian culture;

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>>> Same patterns can be seen on amazingly similar neolithic clay stamps found in Republic of Macedonia, Greece and Turkey (Anatolia). For more interesting information about this, please, visit this link.There are probably many more of them , but I think this is quite enough to illustrate how these patterns were widely spread, all across Euro-Asia, and probably even further, for a long period of time. These patterns are actually still alive today and and are integral parts of, for example, textile designs and embroideries of many modern countries and nations.

>>> But, let's go back to the Mezin bracelet, because, it has the most elaborately performed meandering and zigzag patterns. On the picture below we can see how complex this design is, yet it was done with a simple tools and by man who lived during the last glacial period and in particular Late Upper Paleolithic period, at the beginning of the climatic change that marked the end the last Ice Age. These Paleolithic bracelets are dated from about 20,000 BCE . Meanwhile the bracelets from mammoth tusk were found at the Paleolithic settlements in Russia, France, and Belgium, but Mezin bracelets have no analogues in ornamentation.

We note also that the geometrical ornamentation of these Paleolithic finds, which reaches a maximal complication at the Mezin bracelets, in particular in the wide bracelet, is not casual. These finds are so perfect that they required elaborate inputs, skills, time and mastery in comparison with other finds revealed at these settlements. Without doubt they have concentrated valuable crumbs of ancient knowledge about rhythms of Cosmos. Such ornaments may testify that humans of the upper Paleolithic may had the concept of long-term counting of the lunar phases. If so, a complicated lunar mythology was surely engendered in these Paleolithic times. For more information, please, visit this link.

Mezin bracelet pattern illustration

>>> The pattern on this bracelet was described in detail by Frolov (1977), and he was among the first to propose that it may represent a rare example of an ancient lunar-solar calendar. Upon analyzing the decorative pattern (see the picture below), one finds that two reiterating meander groups are divided twice by zones of zigzags. Each of the zigzags consists of 7 lines. We can clearly identify 5 different patterns: A, C, and E in the centre and at the edges of the meander zone, and B and D zones. (Frolov, 1971).

Mezin bracelet as a solar-lunar calendar

>>> And here we have more elaborate explanation, proposed by two Ukrainian astronomers, Irina B. Vavilova and Tetyana G. Artemenko - ANCIENT ASTRONOMICAL CULTURE IN UKRAINE.1: FINDS RELATING TO THE PALEOLITHIC ERA: " This ornamentation of parallel strokes separated in the areas of the zigzags, consists in total of 564 lines (20 lunar months). It is interesting that the number of lines in the central area and in the zigzags is equal to 366, which almost corresponds to one solar year (Zosimovich, 1992: 14). Of course, it could be a simple coincidence, but the conclusion also can be drawn that the pattern on this bracelet represents an ancient lunar-solar calendar based exactly on the period of 10 lunar months, or 280 days.

Illustration of both Mezin bracelets with details of their patterns

2. SECOND BRACELET FROM MEZIN, UKRAINE, ENGRAVED OUT OF MAMMOTH IVORY

>>> The second Mezin bracelet, discovered in 1956, is also a remarkable find. It is composing of five joined mammoth tusk rings edged with ornamentation. The external surfaces of the bracelet are covered with a fretwork geometrical patternin which rows of fir trees are directed to opposite sides and form a clear meander pattern (see Abramova, 1962; 1995; Shovkoplyas, 1965: 104- 105).

A pattern is formed as a result of the junctions of the recurring groups of parallel strokes, which are directed at an angle to the edge of the bracelet. Frolov (1977) has interpreted this meander pattern as a primitive calendar (Figure 9) with fertility and crop symbols. His interpretation is as follows: most groups consist of 14 strokes, although there are groups with 13 and 15 strokes. The directions of the strokes in two adjacent groups differ by 90 degrees . Each part of the bracelet with 27-29 strokes can be interpreted as a calendar of the lunar month. It is possible that the 90 degree change of direction of the strokes may reflect a lunar disc that is increasing during the first part of the month and decreasing in the second part of the month: Groups of 14 strokes, which change their direction periodically exactly after this number, could correspond to the same visibility occurrence, in this case with the increasing lunar disc before Full Moon, and with the decreasing lunar disc before the New Moon during the 28- 29 days of the lunar month.

Another Mezin bracelets, with zigzag pattern;

>>> Obeying this rhythm, two lunar months are written at the edges of plates. As a result all of the days in 10 lunar months could be written on all 5 plates of the bracelet. (Frolov, 1974: 63-64;). It is important to emphasize that the base of these possible paleo-astronomical calendars (10 lunar months, or 280 days) coincides with the mean period of pregnancy for women. Many scientists consider that such a period relating to the Moon could have been chosen by prehistoric people as the obvious time-measurement unit for long-term observational events. Incidentally, upon studying in detail the ornamentation on both Mezin bracelets, Shovkoplyas (1965) noted that they had specific female attributes. (Source: Irina B. Vavilova and Tetyana G. Artemenko - ANCIENT ASTRONOMICAL CULTURE IN UKRAINE.1: FINDS RELATING TO THE PALEOLITHIC ERA)

3. PALEOLITHIC HEADBAND WITH GEOMETRIC MOTIFS, KOSTENKI-AVEDEEVO SITE, RUSSIA

>>> Kostenki is a very important Paleolithic site on the Don River in the Russia. It was a settlement which contained venus figures, dwellings made of mammoth bones, and many flint tools and bone implements. Kostenki/Kostienki is not actually a single site but really an area on the right bank of the Don River in the regions of the villages of Kostenki and Borshevo, consisting of more than twenty site locations, all dating to the Paleolithic. Archaeological and the earliest occupation stages in these localities have been dated to between 39 000 and 34 000 years ago.

Carved diadem with zigzag patterns, from Kostenki, Russia

>>> The Paleolithic site of Avdeevo, on the left bank of the Rogozna River (23-22K BP) is worthy of special attention because of its links between the Paleolithic sites of Eastern and Central Europe. Research at the site was conducted from 1946-1949 and from 1972 on. Two oval living areas have been identified at Avdeevo. Both were occupied between 23 000 and 22 000 BP. The tool inventory consists of Kostenki knives, shouldered points, and leaf points on blades. There is a well preserved series of worked bone objects which differ in details from those found at Central European sites assigned to the Kostenki-Willendorf cultural unity. They include numerous bone awls and points of various types, burnishers and shovels, diadems and bracelets, as well as beads and decorated points. Non-repetitive or unique objects are relatively rare. (Source: www.donmaps.com)

Bellow is the picture of diadem carved out from mammoth tusk. The surface is divided in two halves with zigzag lines/chevron pattern in a mirror like position. The dividing line consists of round-like cuts, distributed in equal distance one from the other. Scientific interpretation of possible mystical or cosmogonic nature of zigzag geomatric pattern, in this case, has not yet been offered, at least, I was not able to find it. So we may only guess or be inspired to conduct our own research.

Diadem from Kostenki, side view;

>>> Above is the picture of a fragment of the diadem from Kostenki , that shows that it is slightly curved. And bellow is a drawing that shows details of the diadem and other artifacts in a more clear way.

There are probably more examples with same patterns in other parts of the world, but I was not able to find the source that represents them systematically like those I listed in this posts. Even if they exists, they might be some isolated cases, however, if you know about them, please, do let me know. My personal opinion is that things like this belong to world heritage and that one should be above the local and national prides and prejudices, because it is close to nothing that we truly know about ancient people's ability to move , migrate and mix around with other people or stay aboriginal. Therefore, we should be all proud of what our ancestors from all around the world have left behind them for us. So, let's just admire and enjoy :).

Illustration of archaeological findings, including diadem from Kostenki, Russia;

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<<< Veliki sam ljubitelj praistorijske umetnosti, a živeti u delu sveta kao što je Balkansko poluostrvo je istovremeno je i blagoslov i usud. Za sada ću izostaviti loše strane života na ovom podneblju i pomenuti samo dobre, one koje me čine srećnom što živim u predelima prebogatim istorijskim zbivanjima i arheološkim nalazištima poput Lepenskog Vira, Starčeva, Vinče, Butmira, Vučedola, itd., i koje nije daleko od susednih kultura poput Kukuteni-Tripoljske i Karanovo-Gumelničke, koje sve zajedno izgleda da su sačinjavale jednu ogromnu (i potpuno zanemarenu od strane stručnjaka modernog doba) Kulturu Stare Evrope ili Staru Dunavsku Civilizaciju koja se rasprostirala naširoko, i vremenski i prostorno: trajala je od 27000 god. PNE do 3000 god. PNE i pokrivala teritorije svih bivših republika SFRJ, Rumunije, Bugarske, Mađarske, Moldavije, Albanije, severne Italije, delova Grčke, Turske i ogromne delove, ako ne i u celini, danjašnje Ukrajine i Rusije, pa čak i dalje.

Danas želim da pomenem dva praistorijska artefakta iz Ukrajine i jedan iz Rusije. Sama pomisao na njih čini da počnem da osećam jezu duž kičme. Velika je verovatnoća da su to predmeti sa najstarijim prikazima meandrirajućih i cik-cak motiva, koji su ikad pronađeni. Stari su najmanje 20000 godina i ugravirani su na fragmentima mamutovih kostiju i kljova.

1. NARUKVICA IZ MEZINA U UKRAJINI, SA ORNAMENTALNIM PRIKAZIMA UGRAVIRANIM U SLONOVAČI OD MAMUTOVE KOSTI

<<< Ukrajina je zemlja koja je blagoslovena obiljem paleolitskih naseobina. Iako se artefakti od mamutovih kljova i kostiju mogu naći i na drugim arheološkim lokalitetima na području cele Evroazije, oni su ipak najvećim delom koncentrisani duž severo-zapadnih pritoka koje pripadaju basenu reke Dnjepar, kao i na Krimu, što čini Ukrajinu idealnom za proučavanje paleolitskih društava. Ove naseobine su analizirane metodom radioaktivnog izotopa ugljenika 14C , i ustanovljeno je da datiraju između iz 27000 - 12000 god. PNE.

<<< Pre nego što počnem da zalazim u detalje, želela bih ponovo da pomenem kulture Lepenskog Vira i Vinče, koje su mi posebno drage zato što su deo lokalne istorije i tradicije. Uvek sam se pitala šta predstavljaju geometrijski motivi urezani u kamenim oblutcima iz Lepenskog Vira, kao i na čuvenim glinenim figurinama boginja pronađenim u Vinči. Oni imaju istovetne meandrirajuće i motive nalik slovu "V", Na vinčanskim figurinama možemo ih videti uglavnom kao segmente dizajna kakav se na narukvicama iz Mezina vidi u celini. Uvek sam želela da otkrijem značenje iza tih motiva, da saznam šta oni predstavljaju? Rečni tok, nekakav lavirint, stilizovane rode u letu, zvezdane konstelacije, ženski princip ili nešto drugo? Ovde u Srbiji imamo bar dve reke sa jasno izdefinisanim meandrirajućim krivinama, Uvac i Moravu. Može li biti da su Vinčani koristili ove meandrirajuće motive naprosto nao umetničku ekspresiju onoga što su viđali u prirodi?

Iznad su fotografije dva gravirana kamena sa meandrirajućim motivima iz Lepenskog Vira u Srbiji, zatim pintadera u obliku leve noge sa cik-cak linijama (Starčevačka kultura, 6200-5500 BCE) i glineni idol iz Vinče sa urezanim segmentima meandrirajućeg motiva i šarama nalik slovu "V";

Dole su navedeni linkovi sa izvorima fotografija;

www.narodnimuzej.rs, atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com, philipcoppens.com,

<<< Iste šare možemo videti i na predmetima iz susednih kultura Kukuteni-Tripolje i Karanovo-Gumelnica:

Iznad su fotografije dva glinena idola sa meandrirajućim motivima, jedan iz kulture Karanovo-Gumelnica, drugi iz Kukuteni-Tripolje kulture; zatim dve glinene figure muškarca i žene sa prikazom tetovaža u obliku cik-cak linija, i na kraju keramičku posudu sa krupnim meandrirajućim motivima, svi pripadaju kulturi Kukuteni-Tripolje;

Dole su nevedeni linkovi sa izvorima fotografija;

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<<&lt Isti motivi se mogu videti i na međusobno neverovatno sličnim glinenim pečatima pronađenim na teritorijama današnje Makedonije, Grčke i Turske (Anadolija). Za više interesantnih informacija u vezi toga, molim vas, posetite ovaj link. Nalaza sa ovakvim predmetima verovatno ima još negde, ali mislim da je ovo sasvim dovoljno da ilustruje koliko su ovi motivi bili široko rasprostranjeni, širom cele Evroazije, a verovatno i dalje. Ove šare i danas žive, najviše u tekstilu, nošnjama i vezovima raznih naroda i zemalja.

<<&lt Ali vratimo se nazad na narukvicu iz Mezina, pošto ona ima najsloženije izvedene meandrirajuće i cak-cak motive. Na fotografiji možemo videti koliko je kompleksan ovaj motiv, a ipak, bio je izveden prostim alatima i od strane čoveka koji je živeo u poslednjem glacijalnom periodu, tačnije u Gornjem Paleolitu, i to na početku klimatskih promena koje su označile kraj ledenog doba. Obe ove paleolitske narukvice su datirane u 20000-tu god. PNE. Iako su u međuvremenu pronađene i druge narukvice od mamutovih kostiju i kljova, na lokalitetima u Francuskoj, Belgiji i Rusiji, u pogledu ornamentike ni jedna ne može da se poredi sa narukvicama iz Mezina.

<<&lt Takođe primećujemo da geometrijska ornamentika narukvica iz paleolita, koja svoju maksimalnu kompleksnost doseže u narukvicama iz Mezina, a posebno na široj narukvici, nije slučajna. S obzirom na perfekciju izrade sasvim je izvesno da su one zahtevale izuzetno veliki trud, veštine, vreme i majstorstvo u poređenju sa drugim predmetima pronađenim u ovim naseobinama. Bez svake sumnje, u njima su skoncentrisani ostaci drevnih znanja u vezi kosmičkih ritmova. Ovakvi ornamenti mogu biti potvrda da su ljudi iz perioda Gornjeg Paleolita znali za koncept dugoročnog računanja Mesečevih faza. Ukoliko je ovo tačno, onda je sasvim moguće da je komplikovana lunarna mitologija bila iznedrena uprravo u ovim paleolitskim vremenima. Za više informacija, molim vas, posetite ovaj link.

<<&lt Šare na ovoj narukvici opisao je Frolov još 1977. god. On je bio među prvima koji je sugerisao da one mogu predstavljati redak primerak drevnog, lunarno-solarnog kalendara! Nakon analize dekorativne ornamentike, može se videti da su dve ponavljajuće grupe meandrirajućih motiva dva puta podeljene zonama sa cik-cak linijama. Svaki cik-cak se sastoji od 7 linija. Sasvim jasno možemo identifikovati 5 različitih dezena: A, C i E u centru i na krajevima meandrirajućih zona i B i D zone (Frolov, 1971.)

<<&lt A ovde imam detaljnije obrazložena objašnjenja, od strane dve ukrajinske astronomkinje, Irine B. Vavilove and Tetyane G. Artemenko - DREVNA ASTRONOMSKA KULTURA U UKRAJINI. 1. PRONALASCI KOJI SE ODNOSE NA DOBA PALEOLITA: " Ova ornamentika sa paralelnim potezima, izdeljenim poljima sa cik-cak linijama sastoji se od ukupno 564 linije (20 lunarnih meseci). Zanimljivo je da je broj linija u centralnom polju i onim sa cik-cak linijama jednak broju 366, što skoro da odgovara jednoj solarnoj godini (Zosimovich, 1992: 14), Naravno to može biti čista koincidencija, ali isto tako može i da se izvede zaključak da ornamentika na narukvici predstavlja jedan drevni lunarno-solarni kalendar koji se vrlo precizno zasniva na periodu od 10 lunarnih meseci, ili 280 dana.

2. DRUGA NARUKVICA IZ MEZINA U UKRAJINI, SA SA CIK-CAK MOTIVIMA UGRAVIRANIM U SLONOVAČI OD MAMUTOVE KOSTI

<<&lt Druga narukvica iz Mezina, koja je otkrivena 1956. godine, je takođe značajan pronalazak. Sastoji se od 5 velikih prstenova od mamutove kljove, u koje je takođe urezana ornamentika. Spoljna strana narukvice je dekorisana mrežom geometrijskih motiva u kojima su redovi sa stilizovanim grančicama jelke okrenuti jedni naspram drugih, tako da na neki način opet formiraju meandrirajući motiv (videti Abramovu, 1962; 1995; Shovkoplyas-a, 1965: 104- 105).

Dezen se formira kao rezultat spojeva ponavljajućih grupa paralelnih linija koji su u odnosu na ivicu narukvice pozicionirani pod određenim uglom. Frolov (1977) je interpretirao ove meandrirajuće motive kao primitivni kalendar (slika 9) sa simbolima plodnosti i useva. Evo njegove interpretacije: većina grupacija se sastoji od 14 ureza, mada ima i grupa sa po 13 i 15 ureza. Pravci ovih ureza u dvema uporednim grupama prave ugao od 90 stepeni. Svaki deo narukvice koji ima 27-29 ureza može se interpretitati kao kalendar lunarnog meseca. Moguće da ova promena pravca ureza pod uglom od 90 stepeni predstavlja Lunarni disk koji se povećava u prvoj polovini meseca i smanjuje u drugoj polovini meseca: Grupe od 14 ureza koje periodično menjaju svoj pravac tačno posle ovog broja, mogu odgovarati istoj vizuelnoj pojavi, u ovom slučaju sa uvećavajućim lunarnim diskom pre Punog Meseca i sa umanjujućim lunarnim diskom pre Mladog Meseca tokom 28-29 dana lunarnog meseca.

<<&lt Ako sledimo ovo pravilo videćemo da su na ivicama prstenova ispisana dva lunarna meseca. Kao rezultat, svi dani u 10 lunarnih meseci mogu biti ispisani na svih 5 prstenova narukvice. (Frolov, 1974: 63-64;) Važno je istaći da osnova ovog mogućeg paleo-astronomskog kalendara (10 lunarnih meseci, 280 dana) odgovara prosečnom periodu trudnoće kod žena. Mnogi naučnici smatraju da je takav period ,koji je tesno povezan sa Mesecom, bio izabran od strane praistorijskih ljudi kao jedinica za merenje vremena, tj. za dugoročnu obzervaciju nebeskih događaja. Sasvim slučajno, nakon što je detaljno izanalizirao obe narukvice iz Mezina, Shovkoplyas (1965) je primetio da obe imaju specifične ženske atribute. (Izvor: Irina B. Vavilova and Tetyana G. Artemenko - DREVNA ASTRONOMSKA KULTURA U UKRAJINI.1: PRONALASCI KOJI SE ODNOSE NA DONA PALEOLITA)

3. PALEOLITSKA DIJADEMA SA GEOMETRIJSKIM MOTIVIMA, KOSTJENKI-AVEDEJEVO LOKALITET, RUSIJA

<<&lt Kostjenki je vrlo važan paleolitski lokalitet, smešten na reci Don u Rusiji. To je bila naseobina u kojoj su pronađene poznate figurine boginja, tzv. Venere, zatim kuće napravljene od mamutovih kostiju i mnogo alatki od kremena i implemenata opet od mamutove kosti. Lokalitet Kostjenki nije izolovan lokalitet, već je to pre jedna oblast smeštena na desnoj obali reke Don, u regioni sela Kostjenki i Borševo, koja se sastoji od više od dvadeset lokaliteta, koji svi potiču iz doba Paleolita. Arheološkin istraživanjima je utvrđeno da najstariji slojevi, kada se desilo i naseljavanje, potiču iz perioda između 39000-34000 godina PNE.

<<&lt Paleolitski lokalitet Avedejevo, koji se nalazi na levoj obali reke Rogozne ( 27000-22000 god. PNE) je vredno posebne pažnje zbog njegovih veza sa paleolitskim lokalitetima Istočne i Centralne Evrope. Istraživanja na njemu su sprovedena između 1944-1949 i od 1972-ge na ovamo). Dve oblasti ovalnog oblika su identifikovane kao Avedejevo. Obe oblasti su bile naseljavane u periodu između 23000-22000 god. PNE. Inventar sa alatkama se sastoji od noževa pronađenih na nalazištu Kostjenki, kao i sečiva u obliku lista i drugim oblicima. Postoji i dobro sačuvana zbirka predmeta izrađenim od kosti, koji se u detaljima razlikuju od onih pronađenih na lokalitetima Centralne Evrope, a koji su pridruženi Kostjenki-Vilendorfskom kulturalnom jedinstvu. Ona se sastoji od brojnih koštanih šila i različitih tipova šiljaka/vrhova strela, lopata, alata za poliranje, kao i dijadema, narukvica, perlica i dekorativnih šiljaka/strelica. Svi su predmeti uniformnog izgleda, skoro i da nema nekih izuzetaka. (Izvor: www.donmaps.com)

Dijademe/krunica sa rezbarijama u mamutovoj kljovi - površina joj je podeljena na dva dela sa cik-cak/ševron motivima, okrenutim kao odraz u ogledalu. Linija koja ih deli se sastoji od malih useka, raspoređenih na podjednakoj razdaljini jedni od drugih. Naučna interpretacija moguće mističke ili kosmogonske prirode cik-cak motiva ovde nije ponuđena, ili bar ja nisam bila u stanju da je nađem. Tako da možemo samo da nagađamo ili da budemo motivisani da istražujemo dalje.

Verovatno da postoji još primera sa ovakvom ornamentikom u drugim delovima sveta, ali ja nisam uspela da pronađen drugi izvor koji na ovako sistematičan način prikazuje i dolazima potkrepljuje, kao izvori navedeni u ovom postu. Čak i ako postoje, oni su verovatno izolovani slučajevi dok se ovde radi o velikoj zbirci predmeta na jednom mestu. Ako znate za još neke artefakte na ovu temu, molim vas da me obavestite. Moje lično mišljenje je da ovakve stvari pripadaju celom čovečanstvu i da bismo trebali da budemo iznad lokalnih ponosa i predrasuda, jer je u pitanju nešto mnogo veličanstvenije. Mi skoro da ništa ne znamo o sposobnostima ljudi iz tako drevne prošlosti da se kreću, migriraju i mešaju jedni sa drugima ili da ostaju i opstaju kao starosedeoci. Tako da bismo trebali da budemo ponosni na sve što su nam naši preci širom sveta ostavili u nasleđe. Tako da hajde samo da se divimo i uživamo :).

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Wild Boar In The Art of Ancient European & Eurasian Tribes: SCHYTIANS, Part 1 - Divlji vepar u umetnosti drevnih evropskih i evroazijskih naroda: SKITI, 1. Deo

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>>> Last several months, I've been studying arts and crafts of ancient tribes that lived across the waste area: from Balkan and southern-eastern Europe, over Ukraine and Russia to Central Asia and even further. I wanted to see if there is any continuity and similarities between the arts of "different" cultures and to figure out where to look for its' origins, so I started my research from as early as from mesolithic and neolithic age. I have tried to conduct my own comparative research and looked for things like pottery and ceramic figurines, tombstones and burial sites, textiles, scripts, and, of course, jewelry.

While the overall picture now looks less foggy to me, I still have to do a lot more of research, to be able to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. As I learn and discover, my attitudes are constantly changing, primarily in regard to what I have learned earlier in my life. For example, as an art student, during the history of art classes and by reading mainstream literature, that was most of the time the only one available.

Picture 1: TORQUE (GRIVNA)

Gold: cast, forged, chased. Diam. 17.3-19 cm ;

Meotian Culture. Late 4th century BC;

Karagodeuashkh Barrow, Kuban, Krasnodar Region (formerly Giaghinsky District of Kuban Region);

Russia (now Ukraine);

Source: xoxol.org

>>> In a digital era, resources are far more richer and diverse, and that can be very tricky too, since you must be able to distinguish from what looks like (more) true from what does not. Therefore, my own experience tells me not to rely solely on textual resources, but also to actual artifacts (or the photos of them). They tell the most accurate story, especially if you look for hundreds of them. As you virtually "travel" around the net, from one culture to another, you start noticing tremendous similarities, that are yet to be figured out if they are accidental or they have the same source, the one from the most distant time. But one thing I can be sure about is that some of the cultures or past civilization that we considered to be primitive (NOTE: by "primitive" I don't mean to suggest anything derogatory; on the contrary, I am a great fan of primitive arts and cultures, ancient and modern ones!) were much more spiritually and materially advanced than we ever thought. I'd like to cover that issue in some other, separate post.

The reason I make such a long introductory to this post is because I plan to write more posts on this theme. That way I can use this one as a referral post. It also might look awkward that I don't start right from the beginning, like from Mesolithic time, because people used to make primitive forms of jewelry then, and even earlier. But my last impressions are about depictions of wild animals, like wild boar in the art of many ancient tribes, to mention just a few: Etruscans, Trachians, Dacians, Scythians, Sarmatians, etc.

Picture 2: A SCYTHIAN GOLD BOAR BRACTEATE

CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.

Of hammered sheet gold, the boar facing left, with legs bent under, its tail curled over his haunch, thick ribbed bristles running down its back and hindquarters, ridged ruff under its chin and belly, its fur indicated with cross-hatching, long tusk protruding from its lower jaw, small bulbous eye and neat narrow ears held back against its body, the reverse with three attachment loops

2 in. (5.2 cm.) long

Source: Christie's

>>> I have started with Scythians, because my impression is that they were the most numerous ones. And here comes the first trouble in a form of how to describe who were Scythians? It would take a separate and huge post to do this the proper way. I'll just say that there are many discrepancies, coming from various sources and scholars, each of them supporting their own theory about this tribe. The most common one is that they were the dominant nomads of Eurasian steppes between 7th century BCE to 4th century CE. Mainstream information are coming from ancient Greek sources, like the one from Herodotus, who claimed that Scythians have had: "...neither cities nor forts, and carrying their dwellings with them wherever they go: accustomed, more over, one and all over them, to shoot from horseback: and living not by husbandry but on their cattle, their wagons the only houses they possess, how can they fail of being unconquerable, and unassailable even?"

Picture 3: SCYTHIAN HARNESS OR BRIDLE IN A FORM OF A BOAR;
Date: ca. 5th century BC
Medium: Gold, bone silver
Dimensions: 3.48 x6.99 cm
Metropolitan Museum Of Art, NYC;
www.metmuseum.org

But new discoveries reveal that Scythians lead a semi-settle way of life, which allowed them to develop crafts, like gold forging and iron forging of high quality. It is more likely that they were a progressive culture, with highly developed skills, including metallurgy and construction, egalitarian gender roles and sophisticated religious practices. It is now even suggested that there were some very large and permanent Scythian cities and that they were nomadic only in the summer. Claims that ancient Greek master-artisans made sophisticated jewelry and other art and crafts pieces for Scythians, doesn't seem to be truth anymore. On the contrary, Russian scholars from the State Hermitage Museum have concluded that a discovery of Scythian gold in a Siberian grave in the summer of 2001, is the earliest of its kind ever found and that it predates Greek influence! The find is leading to a change in how scholars view the supposed barbaric, nomadic tribes that once roamed the Eurasian steppes.

Picture 4: SCYTHIAN SWORD FROM MOUND NEAR THE VILLAGE OD VELYKA BILOZERKA (4th century BC;)
Gold plated ceremonial Scythian sword and scabard from the National Historical Museum of Ukraine and the Museum of Historical Treasures
Source:seabiscuitca.wordpress.co

>>> But let's go back to the depictions of wild boar in the Scythian art. Should we look for the symbolism and where can we find the best references? In mythology, religious practices or even later disciplines, like heraldry? Zoomorphic design (vs Anthropomorphic in ancient Greek art) is predominant in Scythian art. But not just Scythian. However, Scythian stylization of wild animals is among most unique ones. They masterfully portrait their strong body structure and muscles, as well as emotional expressions. One of the Scythian favorite motif is animals in dead combat. Apart from the wild boar, we can also see depictions of other wild animals like: griffins, lions, horses, rabbits, wolves, leopards, stags, eagles, etc.

Picture 5: Uncountable golden beads shaped in form of wold boar;The royal tomb (Arzhan 2) in the modern-day Republic of Tuva, Siberia

Source: siberiantimes.com

Did Scythians believed that these animals would help them to get victory in a battlefield? Do we have here the earliest images of what is going to be a heraldry in Middle Ages? It is most probably that each of these beast portrayals personify important symbols and have many different meanings. For example, griffins are defenders of the gold, deer embody a beauty, bears are symbol of hard working and work in all. Panther embody the war and blood. Lion is a representation of an enemy. Some European countries have coat of arms with depiction of panthers or lion's defeat.

Picture 6: A GOLD FIGURINE OF A WILD BOAR (found in the Khomyna Mohyla kurhan);
Source: www.encyclopediaofukraine.com

>>> Finally what about wild boar motif? Scythians were praised as great warriors, both male and female. Most probably it was a symbol of a warrior that is not inclined to retreat. Wild boar also stands for the truth, courage and confrontation. Wild boar that represents a nation of warriors means that they should be able to face the truth, even if it means facing their own death. I will mention again a mainstream sources which refer to Scythians as of a bloodthirsty warriors, barbaric and extremely cruel. Here's the quotation from Wikipedia : " The Scythians were notoriously aggressive warriors. They "fought to live and lived to fight" and "drank the blood of their enemies and used the scalps as napkins"........." To me this looks and sounds notoriously exaggerated. They were probably brave warriors, just like wild boars, who fought when there was legitimate reason to do so. Otherwise, they were extremely talented people who deserve to be more studied and to be given an historical role that truly belongs to them, according to their size and to what they have left behind and influence they left on overall humanity.

To see some more of Scythian stunning pieces, made mostly in gold, please, visit my Pinterest board:

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Photo and textual sources:

*** seabiscuitca.wordpress.com

*** www.volund.ca

*** www.nytimes.com

*** www.penn.museum

*** www.encyclopediaofukraine.com

*** seabiscuitca.wordpress.co

*** Christie's

*** xoxol.org

*** www.metmuseum.org
*** siberiantimes.com

<<< Poslednjih nekoliko meseci bavila sam se proučavanjem umetnosti i zanatstva drevnih naroda, koji su živeli na širokom području: od Balkana i jugo-istočne Evrope, preko Ukrajine i Rusije, sve do centralne Azije, pa i dalje. Želela sam da proverim da li postoji bilo kakav kontinuitet kao i sličnosti, u umetnosti tih "različitih" kultura, kao i da pokušam da otkrijem gde se nalaze njeni koreni, tako da sam istragu započela sa mezolitom i neolitom. Pokušala sam da sprovedem svoje vlastito uporedno istraživanje i pri tom sam razmatrala stvari poput grnčarije i keramičkih figurina, nadgrobnih spomenika i nalaza iz drevnih grobnica, tekstila, pisma i, naravno, nakita.

Iako mi celokupna slika sada izgleda manje zamagljena, još mnogo toga treba proučavati, kako bih bila u stanju da bar donekle povežem delove slagalice u jednu celinu. Kako učim i otkrivam, stavovi mi se neprekidno menjaju, a pre svega u odnosu na svoja dosadašnja saznanja. Na primer, kao studentu umetničkog fakulteta neka proširena saznanja, u odnosu na ona opšta, stizala su u vidu predavanja na časovima istorije umetnosti, kako i iz tomova i tomova knjiga i enciklopedija koje su u ono doba bila bile deo uglavnom mejnstrim literature, koja je jedina i bila dostupna.

U doba interneta ti izvori su sada mnogo bogatiji i raznovrsniji, ali i to može biti mač sa dve oštrice, jer treba znati naslutiti šta je od svega toga više, a šta manje istina. Tako da mi ovo dosadašnje iskustvo govori da se ne treba osloniti samo na tekstualne izvore, već i na realne artefakte, odnosno na fotografije na kojima su ovekovečeni. Oni mogu dati najpreciznije odgovore, posebno nakon što ih pregledate na stotine i stotine. Kako virtuelno "putujete" netom, prelazeći sa jedne kulture na drugu, počinjete da primećujete neverovatne sličnosti, u vezi kojih vam još uvek nije jasno da li su slučajne ili imaju jedan isti izvor, i to onaj iz najdalje prošlosti. Ali jedna stvar u vezi koje mislim da mogu da budem sigurna je da su neke od drevnih kultura i civilizacija koje smo smatrali primitivnim, bile na mnogo višem stupnju razvoja, kako spiritualnom tako i materijalnom. Ali to je zasebna tema koju bih volela da pokrenem u nekom od narednih postova.

Razlog zbog koga pravim ovako dugačak uvod je taj što planiram da pišem još postova na ove teme. Na taj način uvek mogu čitaoce da uputim na ovaj post, umesto da sve ponovo pišem. Takođe, može izgledati čudno što ne započinjem od početka, kao npr. od Mezolita, jer su ljudi i tada, a i ranije, pravili nakit, u malo primitivnijim formama. Ali moje poslednje impresije se odnose na prikaze divljih životinja u umetnosti mnogih drevnih naroda, poput Etruraca, Tračana, Dačana, Skita, Sarmata, itd.

Započinjem sa Skitima zato što je moj utisak da su bili najbrojniji. I tu sada dolazimo do prve nevolje u vidu nedoumice kako uopšte opisati ko su bili Skiti. Predstaviti ih na verodostojan način zahteva jedan ceo i zaseban post. Samo ću reći da postoje mnoga razmimoilaženja kada su u pitanju različiti izvori i njihovi zastupnici, a svako od njih zastupa neku svoju teoriju. Najčešća je ona koja opisuje Skite kao preovladavajući nomadski narod na području evroazijskih stepa, u periodu između 7. veka p.n.e. i 4. veka n.e. Mejnstrim izvori su najčešće antički grčki, kao npr. onaj od Herodota, gde navodi da Skiti: "...niti su imali gradove, niti utvrđenja, noseći svu svoju imovinu sa sobom gde god da su išli: naviknuti, svi do jednog, da nišane strelama jašući istovremeno na leđima svojih konja: živeći ne od zemljoradnje već od stočarstva, pokretni vagoni su im bili i jedine kuće koje su imali, kako su onda mogli da budu išta drugo nego nepobedivi, šta više i nedodirljivi."

Međutim, nova otkrića obelodanjuju da su Skiti vodili polu-sedelački način života, koji im je omogućio da razviju umetnost i zanatstvo, poput oblikovanja predmeta visokog kvaliteta, u zlatu i od gvožđa. Po svemu sudeći oni su ipak imali jednu mnogo napredniju kulturu nego što se do sada mislilo, ovladavši i visoko razvijenim veštinama poput metalurgije i graditeljstva, a imali su i sofisticiranu religijsku praksu, i rodno ravnopravne uloge muškaraca i žena. Šta više, postoje i naznake da su postojale i neke vrlo velike i stalne skitske naseobine, poput gradova, te da su oni bili nomadi samo tokom letnjeg perioda. Tvrdnje da su predmete visoke umetničke vrednosti i izrade Skiti dobijali od antičkih grčkih zanatlija, izgleda da baš i ne odgovaraju istini. Naporotiv, ruski naučnici iz muzeja Ermitaž, zaključili su da je skitsko zlato koje je otkriveno u jednoj sibirskoj grobnici, tokom leta 2001. godine, jedno od najstarijih te vrste i da prethodi grčkom uticaju. Ovo otkriće utiče na način na koji naučnici sada gledaju na Skite, koje su do tada uglavnom smatrali varvarskim, nomadskim plemenom koje je nekada davno skitalo evroazijskim stepama.

Ali da se vratimo na prikaze divljeg vepra u skitskoj umetnosti. Da li bismo u tome trebali da tragamo za nekom simbolikom i šta je to bi nas najbolje uputilo na tako nešto? Mitologija, religijska praksa ili neke čak novije discipline poput heraldike? Zoomorfne likovne predstave (nasuprot antropomorfnim u umetnosti antičke Grčke) su predominantne u skitskoj umetnosti. Ali ne samo skitskoj. Međutim skitska stilizacija divljih životinja je jedna od najoriginalnijih. Oni su znali majstorski da prikažu snažnu strukturu njihovog tela, mišiće, ali i ekspresiju emocija. Jedan od omiljenih skitskih motiva su životinje u smrtonosnim bitkama. Osim divljeg vepra mogu se videti i prikazi drugih životinja poput: grifona, lavova, konja, vukova, leoparda, jelena, orlova, itd.

Da li su Skiti verovali da će im ove životinje pomoći da odnesu pobedu u nekoj bitci? Da li se ovde susrećemo sa najranijim prikazima onoga što će u srednjem veku postati heraldika? Skoro da je sasvim izvesno da svaka od ovih zverki predstavlja personifikaciju važnih simbola koji mogu imati puno različitih značenja. Npr. grifoni su zaštitnici zlata, jelen je otelotvorenje lepote, medved je simbol vrednoće i rada uopšte. Panter je otelotvorenje rata i krvi. Lav predstavlja neprijatelja. Neke evropske zemlje u svojim grbovima imaju prikaze pantera ili poraženog lava.

I konačno, šta je sa motivom divljeg vepra? Skiti su slavljeni kao veliki ratnici, ali i ratnice. Vepar najverovatnije predstavlja ratnika koji nema nameru da se povuče. Divlji vepar takođe označava i istinu, hrabrost i sposobnost za suočavanje. Narod koji je predstavljen divljim veprom tako može važiti za narod koji je u stanju da se suoči sa istinom, čak i ako to znači da gledaju smrti u oči. Ovde ću ponovo pomenuti neke od mejnstrim izvora koji se na Skite osvrću kao na krvožedne ratnike, varvare i ekstremno okrutne ljude. Evo jednog citata iz Vikipedije: " Skiti su bili notorno agresivno pleme. Oni su ratovali da bi živeli i živeli da bi ratovali. Pili su krv svojih neprijatelja i skidali im skalpove koje su zatim koristili kao maramice."........Po meni ovakve tvrdnje su te koje zvuče notorno preuveličavajuće. Skiti su verovatno bili hrabri ratnici, poput tih istih veprova. Oni verovatno i jesu ratovali onda kada je za to bilo opravdanih razloga. U svakom drugom pogledu, bili su ekstremno talentovani ljudi koji zaslužuju da im se posveti mnogo više pažnje i izučavanja, kako bi im bilo pridodato ono istorijsko mesto koje i zaslužuju i koje im pripada, posebno s obzirom na njihovu brojnost i ono što su ostavili za sobom, kao i uticaj koji su ostavili na čovečanstvo u celini.

Da vidite nešto više od zadivljujužih komada skitske umetnosti, posetite moj Pinterest album posvećen Skitima.

Wire Crochet Workshop - Kurs izrade nakita od kukičane žice

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:48:00 +0000

>>> Passing knowledge to people who are genuinely and passionately interested to learn new skills, can be just as equally challenging and gratifying as designing and making jewelry. Especially when you have a raw diamond in front of you ,who isn't even aware enough of all her talents and potentials. I'm sure that a lady that came to me to teach her about wire crochet jewelry is going to make her mark in jewelry design soon, first because she knows exactly what she wants. Once she was introduced what can be made in this technique, she described me what she would like to try. It was a two day intensive course and this necklace was the outcome at the end of day one.

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<<< Prenošenje znanja ljudima koji su iskreno i sa žarom zainteresovani da nauče i steknu nove veštine, može biti isto tako izazovno i ispunjavajuće kao i kada smišljate i pravite nakit. Posebno kada ispred sebe imate nebrušeni dijamant, koji čak nije ni svestan u potpunosti svih svojih talenata i potencijala. Sigurna sam da će divna dama koja je došla kod mene da je naučim izradi nakita od kukičane žice, uskoro ostaviti traga jednom kada započne sa tim, pre svega zbog toga što ona tačno zna šta želi i već ima koncept u svojoj glavi. Jednom kada sam je informisala šta sve može da se napravi u ovoj tehnici,ona mi je objasnila šta bi od toga želela da isproba. To je bio dvodnevni intenzivni kurs (sa pauzom od dva dana kako bi vežbala kod kuće i uradila domaći zadatak :), a ova ogrlica je rezultat rada na kraju prvog dana.

>>> When you have a student who is carefully listening, you are ready to make a real effort and do your best. I would explain the steps in detail and she was able to repeat it successfully almost immediately, with a speed of a person who was practicing wire crocheting for much longer. But this was the first time she was crocheting with wire. That's how we were able to do much more than I ever expected :).

<<< Kad imate učenika koji je spreman pažljivo da sluša, posebno ste motivisani da se potrudite i date sve od sebe. Nakon detaljnog objašnjenja i demonstracije svakog pojedinog koraka, ona je bila u stanju da to ponovi skoro bez greške, brzinom nekoga ko je mnogo duže praktikovao kukičanje žicom. Međutim, ovo je bilo prvo njeno susretanje sa tom tehnikom. Tako smo mogle da uradimo mnogo više nego što sam i mogla da predpostavim.

>>> I think you can tell it just by the way she holds her hands, like a real professional, isn't she:)! If I knew that she is going to be able to make a necklace which would fit rather to an advanced course, I wouldn't give her a chunky crochet hook, but much finer one instead. Once she started crocheting I realized : "Oh, my God, this girl is not going to be happy with a simple chain piece of jewelry! We got to do something she could be proud of :)!"

<<< Mislim da to može da se vidi i po načinu na koji drži ruke dok kukiča, baš kao pravi profesionalac, zar ne :)? Da sam znala da će da bude u stanju da napravi ogrlicu koja bi pre mogla da se svrsta u neki napredni kurs, umesto najdeblje, dala bih joj neku mnogo finiju i tanju heklicu. Čim je počela sa izradom, shvatila sam da se ona neće zadovoljiti mojom prvobitnom namerom da napravi nešto najednostavnije, poput komada nakita od obicnog lancanog boda. Već nešto na šta će ona zaista biti ponosna!

>>> During the course student was also able to learn about how to make jump rings and connectors, how to attach two design elements together and how to attach a piece of wire crochet element to a thicker gauge wire. She was also able to learn of how to use some basic jewelry making tools and about wire gauges and their purposes.

<<< Tokom trajanja kursa, polaznica je takođe bila u mogućnosti da nauči i kako se prave alke, konektori i drugi elemanti za sklapanje nakita, kako da prikači te elemente jedan za drugi, kako da poveže kukičani rad sa debljom žicom, prethodno oblikovanom u željeni oblik. Takođe je bila u mogućnosti i da se upozna i sa osnovnim alatima za izradu nakita, kao i da ih isproba, a zatim nešto i o finoćama/debljinama žice i koja za šta služi.

>>> This piece of jewelry is made of aluminium gold tone wire, which is much stiffer than regular knitting wire. So, when I think again, chunky crochet hook was an actually good choice.

<<< Ovaj komad nakita je napravljen od aluminijumske žice u zlatnoj boji. Ovakva žica je mnogo tvrđa od uobičajene žice za kukičanje (obično je to bakarna žica, posrebrena ili prevučena emajliranim premazom u raznim bojama). Tako da kada ponovo razmislim, deblja heklica je zapravo bila dobar izbor za ovakvu vrstu rada.

>>> Crocheting with aluminium wire can be much more harder for your fingers and more time consuming, but the end result is worth of it, because with additional processing what you get is a firm, solid and long lasting piece of jewelry.

<<< Aluminijumska žica je zato teža za kukičanje i vremenski zahtevnija, međutim krajnji rezultat je vredan toga, zato što (uz dodatnu obradu) ono što se dobije je jedan čvrst, stabilan i dugotrajan komad nakita.

>>> This necklace is a proof that even the simplest stitches can result in the most intricate, lacy structure. The same goes for the simple geometric forms, like squares and rectangles. The combination of two gives a piece of jewelry than looks both modern and vintage, at the same time.

<<< Ovakva ogrlica je dokaz da čak i najjednostavniji bodovi mogu rezultirati kompleksnom, čipkastom strukturom. Isto važi i za jednostavne geometrijske forme, poput kvadrata i pravougaonika. Kombinacijom ovakvih tehnika i oblika se postiže da takav komad nakita izgleda istovremeno moderno i starinski.

>>> The purpose of this project was to teach the student a wire crochet technique, just with wire, with no beads. Instead of plenty of seed or tinier beads, piece was decorated with crystal clear and mate glass beads, round ones and little bit larger.

<<< Cilj ovog projekta je bio da polaznik nauči kukičanje samo sa žicom, bez perlica. Umesto sa puno sitnijih perlica, rad je ukrašen sa nekoliko krupnih, staklenih perli, potpuno providnih i mat.

>>> These are photos from the course,day two, and we did quite the opposite here: the project was a simple bracelet, but with beads. A lot of seed and tiny crystal beads, in black, white and red, because that's the student's favorite color combo :).

<<< Slede fotografije sa drugog dana kursa, gde je cilj bio naučiti kukičanje žicom sa perlicama. Sa puno sitnih, staklenih i kristalnih pelica u crvenoj, crnoj i beloj boji, jer je to omiljena kolor kombinacija polaznice kursa :).

>>> The wire was silver plated copper wire, again the stiffer one, but the end result is more than perfect for the beginner :)!

<<< Rađeno je sa posrebrenom bakarnom žicom, ponovo malo tvrđom (jer, na žalost, kod nas na tržištu ne postoji specijalna žica za kukičanje, koja je posebno mekana i savitljiva), ali opet, krajnji rezultat je više nego odličan za nekoga ko je početnik.

>>> I forgot to mention that student brought herself the closure that she liked and we previously determined the width of the bracelet. So she also learned how to attach a bracelet to this type of closure.

<<< Zaboravila sam da pomenem da je polaznica kursa ponela svoj zatvarač za narukvicu. Širinu narukvice smo odredile na osnovu njega. Tako da je ovom prilikom naučila i kako se zatvarač pričvršćuje na oba kraja narukvice.

>>> We were both impatient to see how does the bracelet fit to her hand. So the slogan of the course could also be: " Come, make it, wear it :)! " I enjoyed a lot these two days! Looking forward to see the future work of this talented woman.

<<< Obe smo bile nestrapljive da vidimo kako narukvica izgleda na njenoj ruci. Tako da bi slogan kursa mogao da bude i:" Dođi, napravi i nosi :)!" Ja sam zaista uživala ta dva dana i unapred se radujem da vidim radove ove talentovane žene.

How to Decorate a Boho-Style Room - Kako urediti sobu u Boho stilu

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:35:00 +0000

>>> I am verry happy that Modernize.com and Starseed Jewelry are continuing cooperation. Here's another wonderful and useful decorating story for blog readers who love Bohemian/Boho style that will never be out of fashion. If you would like to refresh your living space, but still not ready to go for new furniture, than go Boho :)! Find out how to Decorate a Boho-Style Room.

<<< Vrlo sam srećna što Modernize.com nastavlja saradnju sa Starseed Jewelry. Evo je druga divna i korisna priča o dekorisanju prostora za one čitaoce bloga koji vole Boho stil koji će uvek biti u modi. Ako biste voleli da osvežite svoj životni prostor, a još niste spremni da kupite novi nameštaj, opredelite se za Boho stil. Saznajte kako da uredite sobu u ovom stilu.

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How to Decorate a Boho-Style Room - Kako urediti sobu u Boho stilu

>>> The best part of decorating a home or apartment is infusing the space with your unique tastes and personality. And no decor style gives you more room to play around than bohemian. When you’re going for eclectic, you don’t have to shy away from mixing rich hues or interesting patterns, or even incorporating random finds and accessories as art. Home Improvement Leads has a few ideas for a boho bedroom or living room that will feel uniquely yours.

<<< Ono što je najbolje u vezi uređenja kuće ili stana je što svoju vlastitu ličnost i osećaj za estetiku možete izraziti kroz taj prostor. A nijedan drugi stil dekorisanja vam ne pruža više mogućnosti za igru od boemskog. Ukoliko se opredelite za eklektiku, ne treba da se stidite da mešate jake tonove i interesantne dezene, ili čak da inkorporišete i neke stvari i detalje na koje ste slučajno nabasali, kao deo umetničke "postavke". Home Improvement Leads vam predlaže nekoliko ideja za uređenje spavaće ili dnevne sobe koja će da odiše - vama!

Drape Lush Fabrics - Drapirajte raskošne materijale

>>> Use flowy fabrics to make your room feel more tranquil. Drape them over your furniture, or use a colorful rug or curtain as a partition to add privacy. You can also loosely hang a sheer fabric from the ceiling with lanterns for a truly ethereal look.

<<< Koristite materijale koji imaju bogat i lep pad kako bi vaša soba odisala mirom. Drapirajte ih oko komada nameštaja, ili upotrebite tepih ili zavese živih boja kao neku vrstu pregradnog zida koji će vam obezbediti privatnost. Takođe, za postizanje eteričnog izleda sobe, možete da na deo plafona gde su svetiljke,labavo pričvrstite providan materijal

Incorporate Jewelry - Inkorporišite i nakit

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>>> Beading is a distinctive aspect of boho decor, so why not make your jewelry dual-purpose? It will add a beautiful design element. Plus, accessorizing will be a lot simpler when all of your jewelry is on display in front of you.

<<< Perlice su karakterističan aspekt boho dekora, tako da zašto ne dati svom nakitu dvostruku ulogu? One mogu biti divan dizajnerski element. Plus, kad se spremate za izlazak i kad dođe do izbora detalja, lakše će vam biti da imate sav svoj nakit izložen i na dohvat ruke.

Add Texture with Embroidery - Bogatim vezovima istaknite strukture

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>>> Embroidery is another staple of boho fashion and decor. Bright colors and metallic threads are an enchanting combination, perfect for livening up a boring couch, bed, hammock, or window seat.

<<< Vez je druga zajednička tačka koja spaja boho modu sa dekorisanjem prostora. Žive boje i metalik konci su očaravajuća kombinacija, odlična za osvežavanje jednoličnih kaučeva, kreveta, ležaljki ili prozorskih garnitura za sedenje.

Mix Hot Hues - Izmešajte tople tonove

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>>> Contemporary home decor these days calls for clean lines and neutrals like ivory and cloud gray. But eclectic decor gives you a lot more freedom—you don’t have to do what’s “in” to make your place stylish. In fact, you can do the opposite. Mix and match bright, warm hues for a lively look. If you’re not sure about pairing vivid hues all over the place, begin with a neutral palette and let the color come in the form of accessories and details.

<<< Najnoviji trendovi u kućnom dekoru pozivaju na čiste linije i neutralne boje, poput slonove kosti ili oblačno-sive. Međutim, eklektičan stil vam daje više slobode - ne morate da se povodite za onim što je "in" kako biste imali sobu sa stilom. Zapravo, možete da radite suprotno. Mešajte i spajajte jarke i žive tonove za postizanje živopisnog stila. Ako niste sigurni kako da uparite živahne tonove svuda po prostoru, započnite sa neutralnom paletom, a živi tonovi neka pristignu u formi detalja i aksesoara.

Go Antique Shopping - Obiđite antikvarnice i buvljake

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>>> The boho looks has been fairly popular the past few years, so it wouldn’t be hard to find what you need in a department store. But where’s the fun in that? Look for unique treasures that will bring their story to your home. In addition to be bringing one-of-a-kind flair, shopping for secondhand items is more eco-friendly.

<<< Boho stil je bio prilično poularan poslednjih godina, tako da nije teško naći šta vam treba čak ni u robnim kućama. Ali gde je zabava u tome? Tragajte za jedinstvenim dragocenostima koje će vašem domu dati PRIČU! Osim što će sa sobom doneti dah ekskluziviteta, kupovina second hand komada je i ekološki prihvatljivija.

Light it Up - Osvetlite prostor

>>> Decorate with elaborate metal and glass lanterns that will add soft, natural light. Just be careful with all that drapey fabric, and remember that electric tea lights can look just as pretty as natural flame.

<<< Dekorišite prostor upečatljivim metalnim i staklenim svetiljkama koje će dati mekanu, prirodnu svetlost. Samo budite pažljivi sa svim tim draperijama i imajte u vidu da električne svećice mogu biti isto tako lepe kao i one koje daju prirodan plamen.

Get Busy - Ne plašite se šarenila

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>>> Have you ever heard someone say a room or an outfit was “too busy,” wrinkling their nose like it’s a bad thing? Well, if you’re going boho you don’t have to worry about that. Don’t worry about focal points or what the typical layout might be. Focus on making every element of the room unique and interesting. You can still achieve balance and avoid clutter with many points of interest to draw the eye.

<<< Da li ste ikada čuli da neko kaže za sobu ili za odevnu kombinaciju da je "preangažovana", mršteći se pri tom, kao da je to loša stvar? Pa, ako se opredelite za boho stil, nećete morati o tome da brinete. I zaista, u ovom slučaju nećete morati da brinete o ključnim tačkama ili o nekom tipičnom rasporedu. Umesto toga, fokusirajte se na to da svaki detalj sobe bude jedinstven i interesantan. Još uvek možete postići balans i izbeći gužvu sa mnoštvom interesantnih tačaka koje će privući pogled.

Experiment - Eksperimentišite

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>>> There’s no rule saying a mirror has to be a rectangle, an end table needs to be square, or that a chair needs to sit on the ground. Experiment freely with furnishings and you will find the bohemian look effortless.

<<< Ne postoji pravilo u kome se tvrdi da ogledalo mora biti pravougaono, da ivice stola moraju biti četvrtaste ili da ta stolica mora da bude na podu. Slobodno eksperimentišite sa nameštajem i otkrićete da je boemski stil nenaporan.

NOTE: I am not the author of photos in this article, I'm not sure if I managed to find original sources, but I give the credit to authors and I will remove photos if requested.

Srpsko srednjovekovno pečatno prstenje - Serbian Medieval Signet Rings

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Tue, 24 May 2016 14:07:00 +0000

>>> Богатој традицији израде накита на овим просторима можемо придружити и печатно прстење, изузетне израде и декоративности. Печатно прстење је иначе играло важну улогу током историје, а та улога није била само декоративна. Оно је указивало и на статус у друштвеним круговима. Начин на који се развијало указује да је оно одувек било резултат жеље за препознавањем и идентификацијом. Важни људи, попут владара, племства, поглавара црквених институција, итд. уместо потписа, радије су документа и пошиљке важне садржине верификовали печатним прстењем. Прстен би се утиснуо у врућ восак или мекану глину и тиме би се формирао препознатљив отисак који је имао важност званичног печата. Њиме се могло печатити све, од докумената, ћупова и пошиљки са различитим садржајима, преко улазних врата до гробница. Ако би неко тражио доказ да је важна пошиљка аутентична, ту је био отисак печатног прстена који је указивао на то ко је пошиљилац. Садржина није могла да се отвара, а да се отсиак при том не оштети. На тај начин је пошиљка била и боље заштићена. Прстење је зато увек имало препознатљиве ознаке, а то су најчешће били фамилијарни грбови. Овакво прстење може да буни јер се, рецимо, слова често читају наопачке. Мећутим, била је пракса да се знак/грб гравира као одраз на огледалу, како би се на печатном воску указала исправна слика. Симболика печатног прстења је изузетно богата и њеном тумачењу би се могао посветитио један посебан пост. Овом приликом биће представљено печатно прстење српских земаља кроз призму хералдике, из пера хералдичког истраживача, а ја слободно могу рећи и стручњака, Бранка Тодоровића :).

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Хералдика прстена у српским земљама од почетка XIV века до њиховог пада под османску власт

Аутор текста: Бранко Тодоровић

>>> Хералдика као дисциплина у српским земљама корене свог развоја везује за почетак XIV века, када под утицајем суседних земаља Краљевине Угарске и Млетачке Републике, на наше просторе продиру и први хералдички утицаји.

Угарска хералдика, која вуче своје корене из старије хералдике немачких земаља, утицаће на просторе који су више били оријентисани ка унутрашњости континента, пре свега Србија и Босна, док ће хералдичке традиције Млетачке утицати на појаву хералдике у Приморју, односно у Војводству од Светога Саве, Дубровнику и Зети.

Предхералдичко време у српским земаљама оставило је богато симболичко наслеђе, које ће доласком хералдике добити и свој хералдички облик и постати део српске средњовековне баштине. Ту пре свега говоримо о симболима који се можда у најлепшој форми јављају управо на накиту, а пре свега на печатном прстењу као његовом репрезентативном делу, па тако још од XII века срећемо прстење са мотивима крста, звезде, цвета, орла, крила, вука, лава, змаја, грифона, анђела, итд.

Ове мотиве од почетка XIV века на прстењу срећемо и у њиховој хералдичкој форми, а коју срећемо у два облика, као фрагметиране и као потпуне грбове. Под појмом фрагметнираних грбова подразумевамо посебно приказане челенке (са или без кациге) и посебно приказане штитове са хералдичким мотивима. Док под појмом пуних хералдичких знамења подразумевамо грбове на којима су спојена оба његова саставна дела, и штит и челенка (са или без кациге).

Фрагметнарне представе грбова на прстењу у Србији срећемо од времена владавине цара Душана, док такве представе у Босни срећемо од времена бановања Стефана II Котроманића.

Примере фрагментарних представа грбова можемо видети на сребрном прстену с краја XIV века, на ком је приказана кацига (helmet) са челенком (crest) у виду бивољих рогова (Историјски музеј Србије, инв. бр. 307);

>>> на златном прстену из прве половине XV века, на ком је приказана кацига са вучјом главом у челенци (Народни музеј у Београду, инв. бр. 2170);

>>> или кад су у питању фрагментиране представе са штитовима, онда прстен из XV века, на ком је приказан расцепљени (party per pale) хералдички штит са бордуром (bordure), али без јасно видљивог мотива у првом пољу, док је друго раздељено пет пута (party per fess) (збирка Н. Митрића);

>>> златни прстен челника Градислава из средине XIV века, на ком је на косо подељеном штиту (party per bend sinister), у горњем пољу лав у пролазу (lion passant), а у доњем две траке (bend sinister) (НМБ, инв. бр. 5561);

>>> позлаћени сребрни прстен из прве половине XV века из Новог Брда, ромбиран (fusilly) између две пруге (fess) (НМБ, инв. бр. 3646);

>>> прстен са грбом посутим тачкама (МПУ, инв. бр. 3279);

>>> прстен са грбом на ком је крин између два месецолика мотива (МПУ, инв. бр. 4403)

>>> - сличан овом је и прстен из збирке Музеја Славоније у Осијеку, на коме је приказан крин између месеца и звезде (МСО, инв. бр. 155417).

>>> Док у прстење са потпуним грбовима срећемо од краја XIV века, па кроз цео XV века до пада свих српских земаља под османску власт.

Ту рецимо спадају сребрни прстен са пропетим грифоном (griffin rampant) на штиту и челенци, која извире из тролисне круне постављене на турнирски шлем (НМБ, инв. бр. 1907);

>>> сребрни прстен пронађен у Јањеву, датиран у почетак XV века, на ком видимо стуб (pale) на штиту, а главу змаја у челенци, која се издиже из шлема (НМБ, инв. бр. 2525);

>>> прстен са не баш најјаснијом представом потпуног грба из збирке Музеја примерење уметности у Београду, на ком у штиту видимо мотив налик на коњску ногу (?), док је у челенци израстајући пропети грифон или змај (demi griffin or dragon rampant) (МПУ, инв. бр. 4949);

>>> позлаћени сребрни прстен с почетка XV века, познат као Моимиров прстен, на ком видимо мотив сличан мотиву на грбу Санковића, док је у челенци израстајући пропети вук (demi wolf rampant) (НМБ, инв. бр. 1422),

>>> или потпуни грб на прстену из збирке Земаљског музеја у Сарајеву, на ком видимо ружу (rose) у штиту, а израстајућег пропетог грифона или змаја (demi griffin or dragon rampant) у челенци (ЗМС, инв. бр. 620);

>>> прстен из исте збирке, али недовољно јасан да прочитамо детаље (ЗМС, инв. бр. 2479),

>>> прстен са бивољим роговима у челенци, али нејасног мотива на штиту (НМБ, инв. бр. 5045) – овде није згорег обратити пажњу пажњу на круцифиони мотив у челенци, који подсећа на перјаницу а која је у средњовековној српској хералдици чест мотив;

>>> сребрни прстен са расеченим штитом (party per bend) у ком је прво поље мотив звезде, а друго месеца (crescent), док је у челенци орао (НМБ, инв. бр. 2479);

>>> сребрни прстен с краја XIV века, на ком није видљив садржај штита, али је у челенци препознатљив израстајући пропети вук (demi rampant wolf) (МПУ, инв. бр. 4398);

>>> сребрни прстен с краја XIV века, на ком је такође приказано пуно хералдичко знамење, али са исувише упрошћеним хералдичким детаљима, па је прилично незахвално говорити о мотивима на њему (МПУ, инв. бр. 4401);

>>> врло леп пример пуног грба је и златни прстен из XV века из колекције Алисе и Луја Коха, на коме имамо на штиту троструки конац (tripple ribband), у горњем пољу цвет, а у доњем три осмокраке звезде, у челенци лав у пролазу (lion passant) без кациге;

>>> златни прстен протовестијара Трипе Буће из Археолошког музеја у Загребу, на ком имамо траку (bend) на штиту, а вука израстајућег пропетог у челенци (demi rampant wolf)(АМЗ, инв. бр. S-3380);

>>> на концу, можда и најлепши потпуни грб је онај из Дубровника, датиран у средину XV века, а на ком је приказано чудовиште виверн, и на штиту и у челенци (НМБ, инв. бр. 2530).

>>> Оно што на крају можемо рећи о хералдичким представама на прстењу српског средњег века, јесте да оне одговарају савременим хералдичким тенденцијама у земљама суседима, али неки мотиви попут пренаглашено присутних мотива вукова и змајева, како на прстењу тако и у другим историјским хералдичким изворима, говоре нам и о својеврсном предхришћанском наслеђу, које се сачувало код Срба и до позног средњег века, али управо та учесталост истих мотива, и неретко истих грбова код различитих грбоносаца, указују и на чињеницу да те представе као и сама хералдика у српским земљама тог времена нису биле толико ствар система и статуса, колико ствар моде која се тек повијала на овим просторима, а која ће бити насилу прекинута пропашћу српских земаља под налетом Османлија.

Ипак, оно мало властеле што је преживело то туробно време пре свега XV века, сачувало је започете хералдичке традиције и наставило их баштинити до свог изумирања или утапања у племићке кругове средњоевропских и медитеранских земаља у које су се раселили, а повезницу између хералдичког наслеђа средњег и новог века, па самим тим и нашег средњовековног и нововековног племства, направиће племство сумњивог порекла, али веома амбициозно и апсолутно свесно културних домета средњовековних српских простора.

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Аутор текста, Бранко Тодоровић, је хералдички истраживач. Основна интересовања су му илирска хералдика и средњовековна српска хералдика. Аутор је неколико чланака на ове теме, који се могу погледати на страницама Друштва српских грбоносаца "Милош Обилић" http://www.heraldikasrbija.rs/

Искористила бих прилику да се захвалим Бранку, на труду да напише овакав један текст, као и да приложи фотографије из извора који су му били доступни. С обзиром да литература на ову тему није баш честа, а извори доступних фотографија у добрим резолуцијама још ређи, утолико је овај труд још вреднији јер представља покушај да се на једном месту, речју и сликом, а кроз призму хералдике, представе најрепрезентативнији примерци српског средњовековног печатног прстења.

DIY YOUR HANDMADE JEVELRY STUDIO - UREDI SAM SVOJ STUDIO ZA RUČNU IZRADU NAKITA

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:14:00 +0000

>>> Many times I have asked myself what would be the best way to turn a part of my living room into handmade jewelry studio. Not so long ago I have made an improvisation. It works, but I am not entirely happy with it. I have wondered how it would be to ask experts for advice and it turned out that I have been very fortunate to be reached out by one of them. So I am very happy to be able to post an article, written by Bryn Huntpalmer from Modernize, exclusively for Starseed Jewelry and their readers. Many of you are artists and all sorts of creative people, too. So I hope you will be enjoying while reading this post, as it has plenty of smart ideas and solutions.

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<<< Puno puta sam se pitala koji bi bio najbolji način da preuredim deo dnevne sobe u studio za izradu nakita. Ne tako davno napravila sam improvizaciju na tu temu. U pitanju je privremeno rešenje koje vrši funkciju, mada nisam bas najzadovoljnija njime. Zanimalo me je kako bi bilo tražiti savet od eksperata i nedavno sam bila te sreće da budem kontaktirana od strane jednih od njih. U pitanju je ekipa koja stoji iza firme Modernize, sa kojima sam ostvarila saradnju u vidu ovog članka, čiji je autor Bryn Huntpalmer. Ona je, ekskluzivno za Starseed Jewelry i one koji prate ovaj blog, podelila svoje znanje. Među vama ima puno umetnika i kreativnih ljudi uopšte, pa se nadam da ćete uživati ćitajući ovaj post, jer sadrži obilje sjajnih ideja i predloga.

DIY Your Handmade Jewelry Studio

>>> You’re crafty, so why send your hard-earned dollars to someone else for doing the job you were born to do? If you’re a handmade artisan, you can turn a lackluster room into the perfect handmade craft studio. We at Modernize love having space to try work on jewelry and the opportunity to work in an inspiring space without disrupting the people we live with (or vice versa). Here’s how you can set up your handmade haven.

Uredi sam svoj studio za izradu nakita

<<< Vi ste kreativna osoba, koja uživa da stalno nešto stvara, pa zašto biste svoj teško stečen dinar davali nekom drugom, da obavi posao za koji ste vi rođeni? Ukoliko ste umetnik ili zanatlija, možete pretvoriti sobu bez sjaja u savršen umetnički studio. Mi, u Modernize-u, volimo kada dobijemo prostor koji treba pretvoriti u studio za izradu nakita, gde je moguće raditi u inspirativnom okruženju, a da ne smetamo ljudima sa kojima živimo (ili obrnuto). Evo kako možete da napravite svoj stvaralački kutak/utočište.

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Claim Your Space

>>> You don’t have to stake a waving flag with your name into the carpet, but if you want to, just make sure it’s not too pointy. Once you find the area that you love—one that’s set aside, cozy, and quiet—communicate to your roommates or family that you need privacy in this area. Many artists worry about taking this step, but opening lines of communication and calling a few house chats should soothe the transition.

Next, envision what you want your workshop to look like. A great place to start is your aesthetic. What kind of jewelry do you most often craft? Classy and refined? Bold and modern? Chic and eco-conscious? Let the materials and colors that inspire you flow into your studio’s aesthetic. Think of it like you’re turning this quaint space into a shimmering jewel.

Make a game plan, and shop, shop, shop! But only get what you need. Look for materials you already have that could be repurposed, like an old stool or basket. Browse resale and thrift stores, and search for coupons.

Proglasite svoju teritoriju

<<< Ne trebate, baš, da zabadate zastavu sa vašim imenom da biste obeležili svoj prostor, samo se potrudite da to ne bude previše napadno. Jednom kada pronađete deo koji vam se dopada - onaj koji je pomalo zaklonjen, prijatan i miran - iskomunicirajte sa svojim cimerima ili porodicom da vam je potrebno malo privatnosti u tom delu. Mnogim umetnicima nije lako da se odluče na ovaj korak, ali ako pokušate otvoreno da razgovarate, nekoliko kućnih ćaskanja na ovu temu bi trebalo da ublaže tranziciju ka ostvarenju tog koraka.

Sledeće, pokušajte da vizuelizujete kako biste želeli da izgleda vaš prostor. Odlična polazna tačka bi bila vaša vlastita estetika. Kakav nakit najčešće pravite? Elegantan i prefinjen? Ili smeo i moderan? Možda šik i eko-savestan? Neka materijali i boje koji vas inspirišu obeleže estetiku vašeg studija. Razmišljajte o tome na način kao da pretvarate jedan bezizražajan prostor u svetlucajući dijamant.

Posmatrajte to kao igru, napravite plan i krenite u nabavku! Ali uzimajte samo ono što vam stvarno treba. Potražite materijale koje već imate, a koje možete ponovo iskoristiti, na primer neku staru stolicu ili korpu. Potražite radnje sa polovnom robom, robu na sniženju ili koristite vaučere za grupovine i sl.

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Dress the Walls

>>> Not quite with boughs of holly, but something that is cheerful and inspiring to you. Are you drawn to the luxe of Hollywood? Transform those walls into an homage to fashion trends throughout the years. If you produce eco-friendly pieces, we love that! Use low-VOC paints and opt for an organic, natural, and even minimalist aesthetic.

Wallpaper can be an elegant solution, especially if you find a print that truly inspires you. Like to live on the wild side? Go for zebra or cheetah. Or keep it low-key with a black and white motif, sprinkled with pops of color.

Finally, add a few pieces of art that can kickstart your muse after a long day. You may even have some pieces of art that you create yourself. We love to snap breathtaking photos of our creations and frame them for the studio.

Obucite zidove

<<< To ne bi trebalo da bude ništa pretenciozno, već nešto što vas uveseljava i inspiriše. Da li vas privlači luksuz jednog Holivuda? Pretvorite zidove u omaž modnim trendovima tokom godina. Ukoliko pravite eko-frendli nakit, nama se to jako dopada! Upotrebite boje sa nisko-ispraljivim organskim jedinjenjima i neka vaša opcija tada bude organska, prirodna ili čak, minimalistička estetika.

Dekorativne tapete mogu biti elegantno rešenje, naročito ako pronađete one sa printom koji vas istinski inspiriše. Da li ste ljubitelj divljine i pomalo avanturističkog duha? Opredelite sa za zebra ili leopard print. Ili se držite crno-belih motiva, sa ponekim akcentom u boji.

Konačno, dodajte nekoliko umetničkih dela koja mogu da podstaknu vašu muzu nakon dugog dana. Možete i da stavite nešto što ste i sami kreirali. Ono što mi volimo da radimo je da napravimo fotografije naših dela koje oduzimaju dah i da ih uramimo da nam krase naš studio.

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Find Your Furniture

>>> Finding furniture you love is like the feeling of attaching the final piece to that double-wrap bracelet. Top off your theme with statement pieces that are both practical and elegant. You’ll need a wide workspace, so pick up or repurpose a simple table, or go for a more organized crafting workstation. Of course, you can DIY one of those complex craft tables by searching for cubes, plastic drawers, and cute baskets to slide onto or under the table.

Then it’s time to secure your stash. Store all of your beads and findings in snappable containers to keep out pet hair, sticky fingers, and dust. Making jewelry requires a lot of parts, so if you have an expansive bead collection, try organizing by type or color.

Pronađite odgovarajući nameštaj

<<< Osećaj kada pronađete nameštaj koji volite je sličan onom kada dodate poslednju perlu toj prelepoj narukvici koju ste tek napravili. Upotpunite komletan ugođaj upečatljivim komadima nameštaja koji su istovremeno i praktični i elegantni. Trebaće vam široka radna površina, pa tako izaberite novi ili adaptirajte postojeći, jednostavan sto ili se opredelite za organizovaniju radnu jedinicu. Možete i sami napraviti kompleksnije rešenje, tako što ćete potražiti kutije, plastične fioke i ljupke korpice koje možete da stavite na radnu površinu ili podgurate pod sto.

Sada je vreme da osigurate vaše skladište sa priborom. Smestite sve vaše perle,repromaterijal i alate u kontejnere sa zatvaranjem na kopče, kako biste ih zaštitili od prašine, masnih otisaka prstiju ili dlaka kućnih ljubimaca. Izrada nakita zahteva veliki broj sastavnih delova, pa tako ako imate poveliku kolekciju perlica, pokušajte da ih organizujete po bojama.

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Accessorize Your Expertise

>>> We add jewelry to our outfits because it reflects our personalities and adds that final touch. That’s how we feel about home decor, too. Top off your perfect, inspiring theme with small accessories that mean a lot to you. Perhaps this means displaying a few photos of the people you provide for, or perhaps it means displaying a souvenir from Peru, where you’d like to visit again this summer.

Motivation to create stunning pieces and work hard can be channeled through these accessories, which will seem to cheer you on. Have fun creating your jewelry-making workspace, and let your creativity flow!

Upotpunite prostor koji reflektuje vaše ekspertske veštine, dodatnim detaljima

<<< Naše odevne kombinacije upotpunjavamo komadima nakita zato što oni reflektuju naše karaktere i zaokružuju celu odevnu priču. Tako se i mi osećamo u vezi kućnog dekora. Upotpunite vašu, do savešenstva dovedenu temu, malim detaljima koji vam puno znače. Možda ovo podrazumeva uramljivanje i postavljanje fotografija ljudi koji nose vaš nakit. Ili je to možda neki specijalan suvenir iz zemlje koju biste ponovo voleli da posetite ovog leta.

Motivaciju da kreirate zadivljujuće komade nakita, kao i da vredno radite, možete iskanalistai i kroz ove detalje, koji mogu da vas razvedre. Zabavite se kreirajući svoj kutak za izradu nakita i dopustite vašoj kreativnosti da poteče!

Bryn Huntpalmer

>>> Bryn Huntpalmer is a mother of two young children living in Austin, Texas where she currently works as an editor and writer for Modernize.com with the goal of empowering homeowners with the expert guidance and educational tools they need to take on home projects with confidence.

Modernize is your trusted ally in home improvement—empowering homeowners with the expert guidance and educational tools they need to take on big projects with confidence.

<<< Bryn Huntpalmer je majka dvoje dece, iz Austin-a u Arizoni, gde radi kao pisac i urednik za  Modernize.com ,sa ciljem da podrži sve one kojima su potrebni ekspertski saveti i uputstva prilikom uređivanja enterijera, kako bi to izveli sa samopouzdanjem. 

Modernize je vaš saveznik od poverenja kada je u pitanju unapređenje vašeg doma - našim ekspertskim savetima i uputstvima uz pomoć raznih obrazovnih alatki, mi pružamo podršku vlasnicima kuća/stanova da se sa samopouzdanjem upuste u velike projekte.

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>>> I wish to use this opportunity to thank both Bryn and Modernize for this valuable advice. I'll wait for the proper moment to ask them for one more, or two, since I know now where to look for answers. For most of us, work surrounding is very important, as it can be additional source of inspiration.

<<< Želela bih da uskoristim priliku da se zahvalim Bryn i kompaniji Modernize na ovim vrednim savetima. Sačekaću pravi momenat da ih pitam za još po neki savet, jer sada znam gde da tražim odgovore. Većini nas, atmosfera u kojoj radimo je veoma važna jer i ona može biti dodatni izvor inspiracije.

Prevod: Milica G. (Starseed Jewelry)

TRENDS IN JEWELRY FOR 2017 - TRENDOVI U NAKITU ZA 2017. GODINU

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:19:00 +0000

>>> Even If you are not a jewelry designer, but maybe someone who appreciate arts and various cultural issues in general, you probably want to be informed about forthcoming trends and to discover in advance what's around the corner. According to TRENDVISION, Italian forecasting agency for trends in jewelry, watches and luxury goods, there are 4 main directions to consider when developing ideas for 2017 jewelry collections.

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<<< Čak i ako niste dizajner nakita, već naprosto ljubitelj umetnosti i različitih kulturnih zbivanja, verovatno želite da budete informisani u vezi predstojećih trendova i da otkrijete unapred šta se krije iza ugla. Sudeći po TRENDVISION-u, italijanskoj agenciji za predviđanje trendova u nakitu, časovnicima i luksuznim proizvodima, postoje 4 glavna pravca koja treba razmotriti tokom osmišljavanja kolekcija nakita za 2017. godinu.

GEO-LUXURY The Geonaut

>>> Amid the plethora of new information that we are constantly being bombed with, from various online and offline sources, we ended up with wrong impression that time has accelerated. That made us feel almost claustrophobic about our present place of living and also made us yearn for distant places, those on this planet, but also for intergalactic ones. Mankind, by its nature, has always been nomadic. Today, we travel much faster than in past, we can travel the planet within a day. Digital technologies enable us to travel virtually anywhere we want, we are just a click away from any place on the Earth. We became virtual Nomads. I, personally, like to "travel" and visit random places around the globe, via Google Street Maps (just yesterday I was "driving" up and down Khabarovsk city streets, and I felt weird. It's a post-communist Soviet city, similar to any city in ex Soviet Union, but placed on Asia's far east, near China's border...I guess that makes me Geonaut, too ;).

So Geo-Luxury stands for browsing. "Browsing is not just an activity, rather a thinking mode. We are browsing for: ideas, words, concepts, people, fashion, shopping." Here we have good news for artists, artisans, crafters and all creative people in general: "A re-discovery of local folklore is stronger than ever, an appreciation of the hand-made, artisanal, recycled and re-used is not only ethical but inspirational and poetic."

<<< Usred mnoštva novih informacija kojima smo konstantno bombardovani od strane različitih onlajn i oflajn medija, stekli smo pogrešan utisak da je došlo do ubrzanja vremena.To je učinilo da se osećamo gotovo klaustrofobično u vezi naših mesta stanovanja, kao i da počnemo da čeznemo za nekim udaljenim mestima, kako onim na ovoj planeti tako i za onim među-galaktičkim. Čovečanstvo je po svojoj prirodi oduvek bilo nomadsko. Danas putujemo mnogo brže nego u prošlosti, možemo obići planetu za samo jedan dan. Sada su tu i digitalne tehnologije koje nam omogućavaju da virtuelno otputujemo gde god poželimo. Sada nas samo jedan klik deli od bilo kog mesta na planeti. Postali smo virtuelni Nomadi. Ja, lično, volim da "putujem" i posećujem ,nasumičnim odabirom, različita mesta na planeti i to uz pomoć Google Street Mapa (baš juče sam se "provozala" ulicama Habarovska i bilo je vrlo čudno videti jedan post-komunistički sovjetski grad, sličnom mnogim gradovima bivšeg Sovjetskog Saveza, koji se nalazi na samom rubu Azije, tik uz granicu sa Kinom...predpostavljam da i mene sklonost ka takvim "putovanjima" čini Geonautom ;)

Tako da Geo-Luksuz označava i pretraživnje. "Pretraživanje nije samo tamo neka aktivnost, već pre režim razmišljanja. Mi pretražujemo: ideje, reči, koncepte, ljude, modu, kupovinu." Ovde imamo i jednu dobru vest za umetnike, zanatlije i stvaraoce uopšte: "Ponovno otkrivanje lokalnog folklora je jače nego ikad; uvažavanje svega što predstavlja ručni rad, zanat, što je reciklirano i što je našlo novu primenu ne samo da je etično, već je i inspirativno i poetično."

SOPHISTICORE The New Thinker

>>> To be honest, while Sophisticore is a new term we all yet have to learn about, I have to admit that I haven't been aware at all of Normcore, its predecessor. According to Wikipedia, Normcore is defined as "unisex fashion trend characterized by unpretentious, average looking clothing". Normcore stands for linguistic bland of words "Normal" and "Hardcore". The idea behind this term is in "finding liberation in being nothing special" (!). Sophisticore goes one step further, since it presents evolution of Normcore movement, and it's not about the look, but about the general attitude: "embracing sameness deliberatley, as a new way of being cool, rather than striving for "difference" and "authenticity". In the Era of self-branding and iconicity, to stand out from the anonymity of technology and social media is a surviving instinct."

To me, this sounds like a quite brave idea and reminds me a lot of minimalism. Just recently I have written an article about "Kitsch Vs Minimalism"on my other blog. It's in Serbian, but if you are interested, you can always use Google Translate. While I, personally, am not a big fan of minimalism, in article I have mentioned that sometimes, a need for minimalism is justified. Especially in today's world, overwhelmed with excessive information. In such cases we certainly have to defense ourselves and our senses, by going for Sophisticore and searching for piece, simplicity and serenity.

<<< Da budem iskrena, dok je Sophisticore novi termin o kome tek treba nešto da naučimo, moram da priznam da nisam ništa znala ni o Normcore-u koji mu je prethodio. Prema Wikipediji, Normcore je definisan kao "uniseks modni trend, karakterističan po nepretencioznoj, prosečnoj odeći." Normcore je lingvistička mešavina dve reči: "Normal" i "Hardcore". Ideja koja se krije iza ovog termina je "u pronalaženju slobode kroz to da se ne bude ništa posebno" (!). Sophisticore ide jedan korak dalje, pošto on predstavlja evoluciju Normcore-a, gde stvar nije u izgledu, već u generalnom stavu:"namerno prihvatiti istost/istotu (napomena: u srpskom jeziku ne postoji reč koja bi na pravi način dočarala značenje reči "sameness", jer se ne radi o JEDNAKOSTI, već bukvalno o tome da se bude ISTI KAO NEKO DRUGI, u ovom kontekstu "sameness" opisuje utapanje u masu, najsličnije bi možda bile istovetnost, identičnost), kao novi način da se bude cool, umesto težnje da se bude "različit" i "autentičan". Jer u eri samobrendiranja i ikoničnosti, iskočiti iz anonimnosti tehnologije i socijalnih medija, je pitanje opstanka.

Meni ovo zvuči kao prilično hrabra ideja i po mnogo čemu me podseća na minimalizam. Baš nedavno sam napisala članak na svom drugom blogu na temu "Kič naspram minimalizma". Iako, lično, nisam veliki ljubitelj minimalizma, baš u tom članku sam napomenula da je potreba za njim ponekad opravdana. Naročito u današnjem svetu, prezasićenom suvišnim informacijama. U takvim slučajevima naravno da treba da odbranimo sebe i naša čula, i to tako što ćemo posegnuti za Sophisticore-om, istovremeno tragajući za mirom, pojednostavljenjem i spokojem.

I-HISTORY The Retronaut

>>> Ever since the scientific and technological revolution, a mankind hoped and strived for the better world. The one that would make our lives easier and more meaningful. Even further, we hoped and imagined that new technologies would allow us nothing less than teleporting ourselves through time and space. And all the other things we could've only dream about and fantasize in our heads. Today we live in that "promissed future", but it seems that hopes have been betrayed. We have seen how destructive new technologies can be, if used in wrong ways. We have witnessed that instead of liberating us, they can actually enslave us, in so many ways and levels. Therefor, we became sceptical.

And nostalgical. Nostalgical about our lost hopes for humanity. However, these hopes are still alive. There are more and more people gathered in online communities, defined as "Retrofuturistic". World Wide Web, being both spaceless and timeless, is a very suitable ground for such communities. "Retrofuturists" or "Retronauts" are digging for new scenarios and their visions are refurbished and updated for the present, offering a nostalgic, counterfactual image of what the future might have been, but is not.

I-History is now metaphorically associated with Apple's I-Cloud where the mission is to classify humanity's archive of all topics in an organized and logical Wiki-Style .

<<< Sa pojavom naučne i tehnološke revolucije, pojavile su se i nade i težnje čovečanstva za nekim boljim svetom. Onim koji bi nam život učinio lakšim i smislenijim. I više od toga, nadali smo se i zamišljali kako će nam nove tehnologije omogućiti, ništa manje, nego da se teleportujemo kroz prostor i vreme. Kao i sve ono o čemu smo samo mogli da sanjamo i fantaziramo u našim glavama. Mi danas živimo u toj "obećanoj budućnosti", ali izgleda da su nade prethodnih generacija izneverene. Videli smo koliko destruktivne mogu da budu nove tehnologije, ako se ne upotrebljavaju na ispravan način. Takođe smo bili i svedoci, da umesto da nas oslobode, te iste tehnologije mogu i da nas porobe, na toliko mnogo načina i nivoa. Zbog toga smo postali skeptični.

I nostalgični. Nostalgični za našim izgubljenim nadama za čovečanstvo. Međutim, te nade i dalje žive. Sve je više ljudi koji se okupljaju u tzv. "Retrofuturističkim" online zajednicama. "Retrofuturisti" ili "Retronauti" se iz petnih žila trude da iznađu nove scenarije; njihove vizije su sada obnovljene i usavršene tako da odgovaraju današnjici; oni nude kontra-činjenične slike koje na ilustrativan način prikazuju budućnost kakva je mogla biti, ali nije.

Aj-Istorija je sada metaforično povezana sa Apple-ovim "I-Cloud"-om i njena misija je da se sve teme iz istorije čovečanstva arhiviraju i organizuju u Wiki-Stilu.

DIGITAL HYPNOSIS The Illusionist

>>> The rapid development of digital technologies and euphoria about it has brought an imbalance in amount of time we devote to two worlds: the holographic and the real one. By browsing, messaging, etc. we are engaged almost 24/7 in virtual activities, thus creating our virtual profiles. They often reflect our aspired lifestyles and identities, rather than real ones. We are hypnotized with newly discovered digital opportunities, so much and in a way that we give up from traditional, real world resources and instead of enjoying the real nature, i.e. we enjoy in a digital photo of it, "...online communities and video games are becoming inspirational places."

Is virtual world an escape from the real one? Is real world becoming too much unbearable, so that we rather choose to live in illusion? Are we all - Illusionists :)?

>>> Rapidni razvoj digitalnih tehnologija i euforija koja je nastala povodom toga, doveli su do neravnoteže između vremena koje posvećujemo dvoma svetovima: holografskom i onom realnom. Pretraživanjem interneta, slanjem poruka, itd. skoro da smo 24h dnevno, 7 dana u nedelji, angažovani u virtuelnim aktivnostima, kreirajući na taj način svoje virtuelne profile. Oni često reflektuju životne stilove i identitete kojima težimo, a ne one koji su stvarni. Hipnotisani smo novootkrivenim virtuelnim mogućnostima, u toj meri i na način koji ukazuje da smo maltene odustali od tradicionalnog, realnog sveta i onoga što nam on pruža. Tako, nrp.,umesto da uživamo u prirodi, mi radije uživamo u fotografijama te iste prirode. "Online zajednice, video igre, itd. su sada mesta gde pronalazimo inspiraciju."

>>> "Searching for a destiny that's mine

There's another place another time

Touching many hearts along the way yeah

Hoping that I'll never have to say

It's just an illusion, illusion, illusion..."

<<< "Tragajući za onim što nam je suđeno,

nailazimo na neke druge prostore, druga vremena

koji nam ,usput, dotiču srca.

Nadam se da nikada neću morati da kažem:

To je samo jedna iluzija, iluzija, iluzija..."

Photo source by TRENDVISION

WIRE JEWELRY WORKSHOP - RADIONICE IZRADE NAKITA OD ŽICE

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:46:00 +0000

<<< Apart from Wire Crochet and Wire Twist jewelry workshop (for more information click on Wire Jewelry Classes page), individual classes on Wire Wrap jewelry are also available. Weather you are going to use one technique or another (or both), at some point you will certainly going to need to know how to make a steady (hammered) wire frame design, maybe as a central part of your future jewelry piece, as well as some basic wire jewelry components.

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<<< Pored izrade nakita u Wire Crochet i Wire Twist tehnikama (za detaljnije informacije kliknite na stranu Wire Jewelry Classes) u ponudi su i individualni časovi izrade nakita u Wire Wrap tehnici. Bilo da se opredelite da se bavite izradom nakita u nekoj od ove dve tehnike (ili obe), kad tad će vam biti potrebno da izradite i neke od osnovnih elemenata od žice, bilo kao centralni ili sastavni deo dizajna komada nakita koji želite da napravite.

<<< This is a basic wire jewelry course where you'll be able to learn: what sorts and gauges of wire are available on the market, how to choose the right gauge, length and type and for what, what are the basic tools that you'll need and how to utilize them to achieve the shape you have anticipated for your design, how you can make your custom wire jewelry components, like ear wires, jump rings, closures, etc. Than you will learn how to shape the wire in desired forms, how to hammer it, how to manipulated it before, during and after you finish the piece you were working on and finally, how to add a final touch to it, like adding patina, polishing, etc.

Just like the other two courses, this one is also adjusted to your own personal needs, dynamics and sensibility and classes will be scheduled to match these. On the right sidebar there is a Contact Form which you can use to obtain more information about the course.

<<< Ovo je početni kurs gde ćete naučiti koje sve vrste i debljine žica postoje, koja za šta služi, koji su to osnovni alati koji su vam potrebni i kako da ih upotrebljavate, kako da sami napravite alke, kopče, konektore, udice za minđuše, itd.; zatim kako da formirate žicu u željeni oblik i iskujete je čekićem, kako se žica obrađuje pre, za vreme i posle izrade nakita, kako se patinira, polira i finišira.

Kao i ostala dva kursa i ovaj je prilagođen vašem senzibiltetu i dinamici, te je vreme trajanja kursa prilagođeno vašem tempu i potrebama.Na desnom sidebar-u nalazi se Contact Form preko koga mi možete poslati upit za više informacija.

FREE GIFT FOR BEADERS - POKLON: ŠABLON ZA PROJEKAT SA PERLICAMA

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 18:45:00 +0000

<<< This is a free gift you can use as a pattern for your bead/embroidery projects, inspired by Serbian ethnic costume.

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>>> Ovo je poklon koji možete koristiti kao šablon za vaše projekte sa perlicama/vezom,inspirisane srpskom narodnom nošnjom;

<<< Here's a part of the outfit I used to make these free patterns: 3-color woven belt, as a source of inspiration for bead/embroidery project;

>>> Ovo je deo nošnje koji sa koristila kao izvor inspiracije za poklon-šablone: Trobojni tkani pojas, kao izvor inspiracije za projekte sa perlicama/vezom;

<<< Work in progress; Using vector graphic program to develop patterns;

>>> Proces rada; Upotreba vektorske grafike za izradu ovakvih šablona;

<<< Once you make the main repeat pattern, you can change the colors any way you want, here're some suggestions;

>>> Jednom kada napravite glavni šablon, boje možete menjati prema sopstvenom nahođenju, evo nekih mojih predloga;

<<< This is another motif from the same outfit, the quite simple one, 2-color motif;

>>> Ovo je drugi motiv sa iste nošnje, prilično jednostavan, dvobojni motiv;

<<< Here are some color combos. You can refer to your own beads/thread leftovers and make combos according to that;

>>> Evo nekih kolor kombinacija. Kao referenca mogu vam poslužiti ostaci vaših vlastitih perlica/konca, pa da na osnovu njih napravite kombinacije;

<<< If you repeat the main pattern maybe you can anticipate the look of your future bead/embroidery project. I'm thinking of some nice friendship bracelets :)!

>>> Ukoliko ponavljate glavni šablon, možda možete da predvidite izgled vašeg budućeg projekta sa perlicama/vezom. Meni na pamet padaju narukvice prijateljstva :)!

JulieMcQueen: OUTFIT: "Forest Nymph"

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Sun, 24 May 2015 19:28:00 +0000

JulieMcQueen: OUTFIT: "Forest Nymph"

Have a look at this wonderful post by Julie:)! I'm so happy that she featured Starseed bracelet, again, this time in her YouTube video. Thank you Julie :)!

Intermezzo - doodles:) / U međuvremenu - malo žvrljkanja:)

noreply@blogger.com (Starseed Jewelry) — Sat, 02 May 2015 16:33:00 +0000

⋘ Like I once said, I rarely make sketches or drawings prior to jewelry making, since, at the moment (at least) I find it hard to stick to something that is too much determined, maybe because I'm at the phase where I prefer to experiment with free forms (where I can change my mind just anytime, especially if I decide that something would look better if I do it differently than I initially intended). Also, I perceive jewelry making as act of playing at the first place. But I do like to draw, make sketches or just doodles. And some day I will go for planned designs, just not now:).

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⋙ Kao što jednom pomenuh, kad krenem sa pravljenjem nakita tome retko kad prethode nekakve skice ili crteži, pošto (trenutno bar) mi je malo teže da se pridržavam nečega što je previše determinisano unapred. Možda zbog toga što sam trenutno u fazi kada mi više leži da eksperimentišem slobodnim formama (i kada mogu da se predomislim bilo kada, posebno kada mi se učini da bi nešto bolje izgledalo ako uradim drugačije od onoga kako sam prvobitno nameravala). Takođe, pravljenje nakita doživljavam prvenstveno kao čin igre. Ali svakako da volim da crtam, pravim skice ili samo nešto nažvrljam. I jednog dana ću se upustiti i u pridržavanje unapred utvrđenih pravila, joj...