Handmade in North Africa

Moroccan - Ethnic Amazigh

Antique of undetermined age

Two available - priced/sold individually but of course you may purchase 2 if you wish to use them together.

Indigenous silver - probably 70% - 80% 

Please note - this is not 92.5 silver.  These are historic pieces that were not trying to conform to international standards of metal purity. They were for local use.

Weight - .8 ounces each

Interior ring diameter - 1 inch

Stick length - 2 inches

Total brooch length, including bottom small ring - 4.5 inches

Width - 1.25 inches

These brooches were cast and fabricated. This style is a very wearable scale and weight for fingering weight fiber. It is not suitable for very heavy or chunky fiber as the ring diameter is insufficient to secure multiple layers of very thick material. 

Take a look at this Instagram post where I style a shawl using two brooches, worn at the fronts of the shoulders as an Amazigh woman would have.  They are absolutely knockout like this.  You just might want to consider doing it like this too . . .

Please note that the bottom ring may be used for stitch markers or for the temples of reading glasses when you need a place to hang your glasses for a moment. Or a charm of some sort could be added, a tassel of yarn. That little ring is a creative opportunity . . .

I love seeing pieces like this that are really worn because that wear tells the story of continuous and long-term use by a woman who was fastening her clothes with these brooches on a daily basis.  The wear tells us a story about the previous life of these pieces that we can touch the vestiges of but which we will never know.