Women's Gifts: Bracelets Are Generally Appropriate « House and ...

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Further to the east, the Chinese invented elaborate gold bracelets adorned with jade beginning in roughly 2000 BC. Chinese bracelets of this era were highly detailed with pictures of animals, real and fictional, such as dragons and phoenixes. The pearl bracelet also originates in ancient China since quality pearls were numerous there. No one is aware just when and where bracelets came from, but as early as the ancient Egyptians, women as well as men wore highly elaborate bracelets made of gold and embroidered with precious and semiprecious jewels. The pharaohs and emperors of old civilizations favoured bracelets that were rather detailed, and it’s thought that the charm bracelet came into existence at least 3000 to 4000 years ago. From olden times to contemporary times, China has remained the pearl and jade popularity centre. In the Byzantine empire, which dominated Europe and parts of the near East as well as the Mediterranean region from roughly the fifth to fifteenth centuries,......

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