For many women of Egypt, their jewelry is their bank-they wear
their wealth in their gold. But jewelry in Egypt is also more than
mere assets, and its design and manufacture reveal a great array of
styles and a high degree of skill and artistry. In this lavishly
illustrated book, Azza Fahmy, herself a world-renowned designer of
jewelry based on traditional motifs, lays before us an Aladdin's
cave of jewelry made in all corners of Egypt over the last one
hundred years, collected through her extensive travels throughout
the country. From the farms and villages of the Nile Valley and
Delta, from the oases of the Western Desert and the mountains and
wadis of Sinai and the Eastern Desert, from Nubia in the south, and
from the crowded traditional neighborhoods of Cairo is displayed a
cornucopia of gold and silver adornment-each area with its own
distinctive favored style. Personal seals have been widely
employed, and there is even jewelry for special occasions, such as
the appeasement of malignant spirits, and for animals.In this
completely redesigned edition of her bestselling book, in a new and
elegant format, the author not only documents all these varieties
and illustrates them with the finest examples, she also describes
the techniques and skills involved in their production and the
materials used, and recounts her own journey of learning as she
apprenticed with the leading master jewelers to become the best
known jeweler in Egypt, whose work is worn by world leaders,
royalty, and connoisseurs of jewelry around the globe.
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