Tribal Goods

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I am selling my remaining stock of tribal bellydance paraphernalia.  If you are interested please have a look at the Tribal Collection on the website.

Of course these beautiful items are available for anyone to purchase, they are great as embellishments around your home or for a "where did you find that" stunning item.

What is Kuchi Jewellery, there is an interesting blog post at Bedouin Silver site that might be of interest.

Most Kuchi and Turkoman items are old, used items with a distinct aged patina. 
Kuchi tribes are a nomadic central Asian people who have created amazing jewelry for centuries.  Their colorful jewelry combines new and old, metal, beads, coins, stones and fabric.
Many pieces are worn due to being used for everyday wear, tribal celebrations and wedding uses. They are often made with a coin-base metal alloy referred to as White Metal.

What is White Metal, White metal can be made up of just about any mix of metals,  whatever is at hand goes into the melting pot, quite often it's coin silver made from as the name suggests old coins melted down and reformed. 

Troupe Orders
If you would like to place a bulk / troupe order, please contact me for product availability and a shipping quote.

Repairing Your Tribal Jewellery
Sewing
When doing any sewing on Fabric type belts, chokers etc. it's good to use a darning or heavier duty needle and at least double thread and a thimble if you can find one, sometimes you may even need small pliers to push or pull the needle through all the layers of fabric to save your fingers and support the weight of all the decoration.  I use a minimum of 4 thicknesses of standard sewing cotton for this but you can certainly go thicker. 
Gems
Gems in tribal jewellery are almost always acrylic or glass, on older authentic items they are glued with melted wax so you need to be careful when cleaning. If they come out and you still have the stone/piece you can use melted wax to reattach them.
Dangles and Wire bits
To reattach dangles or pieces that have come appart, you need a pair or 2 of cheap small pliers (mine are about 10cm) and 20 - 24 guage antiqued craft wire is a good option (it gets thinner as the numbers get higher, I have Gun Metal wire which I use or antiqued brass, bronze or silver, wire that is not antiqued will be too shinny and will stand out too much. It can be fiddly to do but worth the effort.
Ongoing Care
Its a good idea to keep your larger pieces or ones with lots of dangles wrapped in a piece of soft fabric and secured with rubber bands, stops them from getting tangled and keeps them clean, Fabric pieces like belts can be rolled up inside out and also tied up to secure them. 

Cleaning your Tribal Jewellery
Do this carefully, stones in these pieces are often set with candle wax so they can be dislodged quite easily.   Don't use any harsh chemicals.

Soap ie: dishwashing liquid, warm water, and a soft toothbrush are the tools you need, don't have the water too hot or you could melt the wax settings, wet the whole piece and clean gently, rinse and allow to dry well.
There is a video on youtube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wRXmZgevX40
that shows you how to do this, and you do it at your own risk.