Knowledge Base
Daqi
Strip the bark of the lacquer tree (漆树, qi shu) and the sap that bleeds out is 大漆 (da qi), Chinese lacquer: one of the oldest finished surfaces human beings...
Daqi
Strip the bark of the lacquer tree (漆树, qi shu) and the sap that bleeds out is 大漆 (da qi), Chinese lacquer: one of the oldest finished surfaces human beings...
Beads from the Himalayas
Some customers arrive by material - "I want sandalwood." Others arrive by place: I want something from the Himalayas. This page is for the second kind. It holds no content...
Beads from the Himalayas
Some customers arrive by material - "I want sandalwood." Others arrive by place: I want something from the Himalayas. This page is for the second kind. It holds no content...
Bead Meanings
What the tradition holds, material by material and symbol by symbol. Where interpretations differ, we say so. See Claims We Don't Make for what we don't promise any of this...
Bead Meanings
What the tradition holds, material by material and symbol by symbol. Where interpretations differ, we say so. See Claims We Don't Make for what we don't promise any of this...
Turquoise
Ask most people to picture Tibetan jewelry and they will picture this stone. Turquoise (绿松石, lü song shi, Tibetan གཡུ་, gyu) is arguably the single most important gemstone in Tibetan...
Turquoise
Ask most people to picture Tibetan jewelry and they will picture this stone. Turquoise (绿松石, lü song shi, Tibetan གཡུ་, gyu) is arguably the single most important gemstone in Tibetan...
Tibetan Iron Beads
In a catalog of jade, amber, and sandalwood, iron is the deliberate outlier: cold, dark, and heavy, and in Tibetan tradition, exactly those qualities are the point. Tibetan bead culture...
Tibetan Iron Beads
In a catalog of jade, amber, and sandalwood, iron is the deliberate outlier: cold, dark, and heavy, and in Tibetan tradition, exactly those qualities are the point. Tibetan bead culture...
Tibetan Color Symbolism
If Tibetan jewelry had a flag, it would be the palette itself: turquoise blue, coral red, silver white, gold yellow. The colors aren't decoration. They're a sentence, and it reads...
Tibetan Color Symbolism
If Tibetan jewelry had a flag, it would be the palette itself: turquoise blue, coral red, silver white, gold yellow. The colors aren't decoration. They're a sentence, and it reads...