Contemporary beaded jewelry

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This necklace of gold beads and an emerald pendant was made by craftsmen of the Quimbaya culture, which flourished in what is today central Colombia. The Quimbaya were famous for their great skill in working with gold, which was abundantly available in rivers and streams on the region. This necklace shows Quimbay techniques of creating gold beads by heating gold and beating it into sheets, then cutting it into beads. The yalso included a translucent green emerald as a pendant. Such stones…

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