6 Types of Famous Pendants in the World

Nowadays people consider pendants as a decorative item on their neck. Its easy to get pendants in gold, silver and diamond such as alphabet diamond pendant, evil eye pendant, Om pendants and so on. However, ages people used to wear pendants for different purpose such as for family tradition or as a protector of devilish powers. Let’s know more about the pendants of different cultures.

EGYPTIAN CARTOUCHE

A cartouche is a interesting pendant which contains the name of the ruler and a title. Oval in shape which enclosed hieroglyphics in a straight line. The main purpose of these pendants is to identified buried people in afterlife.

TUAREG CROSS

Tuareg Cross is a traditional jewelry of Tuareg tribes in Northern Africa. It’s generally a piece of jewelry which a father passes to its son. It symbolizes all over the world as they believe they are not sure where the wearer will die.

CHINESE JADE PENDANTS

The jade is important in Chinese culture from over 7000 years and considered precious in China. In 5th century BC Chinese philosopher Confucius defines 11 virtues such as purity, beauty, grace and so on which jade consists.

SAAMI PENDANTSIn Northern Sweden a tribal group is known for there distinctive feature. They do not wear jewelry made out of any metal, but they like to work and wear jewelry of leathers . Also commercially made saami bracelets are now can be find worldwide which includes silver button, glass beads and silk thread.

These jewelry are quite same as the other tribes in the American Southwest introduced in Native American.

It was made by using shell, wood, turquoise and other stones. Lately when silversmithing was introduced it was incorporated with hopi jewelry. However, even after silversmithing they were using the tradition ways of jewelry making.

HOPI TRIBE PENDANTS

As the time have changed people are more focused onto modern pendants in comparison to tradition one. Most of the people like to wear alphabet diamond pendants as it gives them the feeling of uniqueness. All alphabets are available in these types of pendant that too in lowercase and uppercase.

Modern Pendants

As the time has passed by pendants have improved in every way and through online shopping you can

get many designer pendants such as alphabet diamond pendants, khanda pendants, om pendants

and so on at Jewelslane.

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