Art of Turquoise Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publish Date: 2011/05/01 Language: ENGLISH Pages: 112 Dimensions: 9.25 x 9.00 x 0.75 Weight: 1.45 ISBN-13: 9781423616306
For generations, people have ogled these gemstones in pawn shops, jewelry shops and antiques stores, looking for a special piece of Native American jewelry that speaks to their heart. Southwest jewelry is now valued and collected around the world. Photographs of collectible pieces reveal what the attraction is about. Whether in shades of pale aqua or deeper aquamarine, blue or jade green, MaryEmmerling reveals that the collector''s hunt is about color. And beyond jewelry, the color turquoise appears throughout the Southwest in architecture and decoration. After all, it''s the color of calm.
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