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For Tibetans, jewelry is a part of everyday life as well as a reflection of their religious beliefs. Tibetan jewelry often represents deities or ritual items, such as dorjes or mantras.

Jewelry has traditionally been an important part of Tibetan daily dress. It is believed, jewels put people in touch with deities, and protect them from the many hazards of life in their rugged and treacherous land. Himalayan jewelry is often oversized and heavy, with elaborate surface design and an exuberance of color. The value of jewelry was historically determined by the intensity of color and size of the components, rather than the value in gems or precious metals. Our jewelry collection offers a diverse group of jewelry, ranging from Tibetan silver items to sterling silver. We have the larger more traditional Tibetan pieces, and also smaller delicate items. From bracelets and rings to earrings, there is a beautiful piece of jewelry that's perfect for everyone.

Tibet Silver Jewelry

Silver is one of a precious metal with relative low price and are used widely in Tibet jewelry, at the sametime Tibetan people also believe that the shines and colors emitted by silver possessed the capacity of avoiding disaters.

Tibet jewelry used 925 purity silver commonly, for the reason that the 925 silver has a more higher rigidity than 100% pure silver and difficult to deform, more importantly, it is showing a gloss more rich in quality, while the 100% purity silver is too soft to used in Tibet jewelry. And 925 silver are often called "pure silver" in business practices.

- Traditionly Tibet Silver Jewelry

Traditionly Tibet jewelry is a white copper-made imitation silver jewelry with a small quantity of silver added in, and this kind tibet silver jewelry is very similar to the texture of silver jewelry, furthermore has a more anti-brasive capacity than silver, because this kind of silver material has a certain extensibility, exquisite Kasi products could be produced by using this kind of material.

- General Tibet Silver Jewelry

In fact, Tibet jewelry itself is a business term, initially people called white copper mixed with a little silver as Tibet silver, later called all white copper jewelry as Tibet silver jewelry, businessman nowadays called those jewelry products made of aluminum-alloy as Tibet silver. In fact, the traditional Tibetan jewelry are never use aluminum-alloy materials. In recent years as Tibet jewelry culture become popular, a large number of fashion Tibet jewelry imitated with traditional Tibetan jewelry style appeared in market, which often use low-price tin-aluminum alloy materials. Tibet jewelry made of such a kind of material are beyond authentic, but for their ultra-low prices they are still very welcomed by ordinary consumers.

Something Intresting About Tibet Head Jewelry

Tibet Headwear Jewelry is standardized, rigorous and humorous, also varied with different regions, ages and marriage conditions. Speaking with great interest, I'd like to give several examples for our readers.

Tibetan Girls' Head Jewelry

Same as Chinese girls, Tibetan girls like to has a single plait, the root of the braid was binded with a red hair string, which was called "Xia Jiu" in Tibetan Language. The only difference is that Tibetan girls weaved their braids in a triangular and set it on the head, so it look more beautiful, generous and elegant.

- Married Tibetan Women's Head Jewelry

Girls are alone braided while married women are double-braided, and without hair support, and the length of the red strings are longer than that of their hair plait, women set their two crossed circular braids in the head from the back of their heads, that looked dignified, generous and mature.

- Head Jewelry of Tibetan Women in Pastoral Areas

It's difficult to judge a pastoral woman who has married or not, because regardless of age they all have several small braids on their head, same as Uygur girls, they bind these small braids into two and decorated them with red and green hair strings, also bunch corals, pearls, agates and nine-eye beads on the two braids, which often as long as their body and often draged with their skirt edges. If they put their braids circled on the head, it will looked as a jeweled crown and much styleful.

- Head Jewelry Wearing in Tibetan's Mourning Period

In mourning period, Chinese men and women are all wearing black armbands, while Tibetan women merely should wearing different jewelry, that is the only judgement mark to discern that special occasion. Tibet girls in the first year of her mourning period should wearing green hair strings and wearing pale red strings in the next year, and they could reuse a red hair string in the third year.

- Tibetan Elderly Spinster's Head Jewelry

Tibetan Elderly Spinster's Head Jewelry is different from married women, and different from young girls too, a elderly spinster also have an alone braid, she put her braid circled on the head decorated with pale red hair strings, but is absent of a hair support.

- Tibetan Men's Head Jewelry

Tibetan men generally have a long plait, they will keep the hair on the head braided, and shave off hairs below pate. Tibetan men do not use red hair strings to bind their plaits, but using a black hair string, whose color is same with the hair. Tibetan men's plaits are not braided with three hair strands as women's, they are braided with four or five hair strands, so men's plaits are braided into a flat one, looked more tight and powerful.

Remarks for Ending:
Tibet Jewelry are beautiful things come from Tibet, it born with the magic powder endowed by that piece of land. Natural stones, corals, animal bones and silver are the main material of Tibet jewelry, these materials are common, and in rough exterior, but contain exquisite connotations. Tiny patterns, engraving, mosaics are formed Tibet jewelry's design style subtly, also has strong and thick antique and original rustic flavors.

All Tibet jewelries are made by hands, and each piece is in a class by itself. Many Tibet jewelries are created by lamas in temple. Tibetans have a custom that to daub oils on body, and believe that is on behalf of health. The same as Lama, so on some Tibet jewelries there are loops of scale.

With rich culture and heroic design styles, Minority people's jewelry can not only attract your eyes, also impact your heart and soul. In this world returned to nature, Tibet jewelry's mystery and some a kind of romantic mood even get more of our hearts' quest. Even you are dressed in general as usually, whenever you wear a piece of jewelry featured with Tibetan folk colors, you will looked more attractive and outstanding in common crowds.