Jewelry
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Jewelry was a diverse art during the medieval ages of making items that ornamented their wearer. Items could be purely decorative, or practical items to which decoration was added to create a pleasant effect, and impression of wealth.
Jewelry included items modernly thought of as jewelry:
- rings, including seal rings
- broaches including annulars, penanulars, disk broaches
- necklaces
- pendants
- decorative pins, and also veil pins
- bracelets
- earrings
and also other items:
- horse harness pendants
- fancy jewlled belts
- jewelled trim on clothing
- fillets (head bands)
- crowns, coronets
Jewelry could be made from a variety of materials:
- metal wire (gold, silver, copper, lead, alloys....)
- cast metal
- beads from gemstones, glass, shell and coral, rock (eg agate), wood or [metal]]
- enamelling
- coins or other keepsakes eg a diskbroach or earring from a coin(generally cheap homemade jewelry)
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