Joyería popular: adornos y símbolos (2)

Popular jewelry: ornaments and symbols (2)

In popular traditional jewelry, the jewelry, in addition to fulfilling an aesthetic function and representing the social and economic position of the wearer, had a high symbolic and protective value. The rich filigree work, accompanied by rhinestones,...
Joyería popular: adornos y símbolos (1)

Popular jewelry: ornaments and symbols (1)

This succinct document aims to highlight several aspects (many others cannot be highlighted due to lack of space) that characterize popular jewelry. As is well known, adornment is something that has characterized the human species since ancient times throughout the known world and no matter what culture. You just have to take a look, to corroborate what has been said, at the archaeological findings, historical documentation, painting, visual media (analog and digital), to realize this generalized reality that is ornament. In it, of course, we include the different manifestations of jewelry.

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