The wearing
of amulets was a common practice among the peoples of China,
India and Tibet. They were used to protect the wearer against
the bad forces of nature and unseen bad spirits. The amulets
can range in medium from pictures on paper to metal and stone
images, tattoos and prayer boxes. Stone figures were made from
jade, turquoise, cornelian or lapis. Hair adornments and necklaces,
made with small metal boxes, would have had prayers written on
pieces of papyrus and tucked inside the boxes to protect the
wearer.
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The Tibetan Bangle
is constructed from a flat Peyote stitch base with a series of
Brick stitch triangles that form four sided pyramid shapes. These
pyramid shapes are worked around the bangle, which closes with
small rondelle and loop connections. The pyramid shapes can be
filled with special beads of glass, semi-precious, pearl or metal
then closed at the top to hold your treasures in place. The spaces
inbetween the pyramid shapes and along the long edges of the
bangle are embellished with small beads and seed beads.
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