Handmade in North Africa

Moroccan - Ethnic Amazigh

Antique of undetermined age

One available

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 - .2 - .3 ounces each

Interior ring diameter - .75 inch

Stick length - 1 - 1.25 inches

Total brooch length, including bottom small ring - approximately 2 inches

Width - 5/8 inches

These brooches were cast and fabricated. This style is small but still 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. 

The ring on the bottom of the pin can accept a thin chain or small cord, allowing the pin to be worn as a pendant. The ring would have connected to a necklace strung between two brooches, which would have been worn at the front of each shoulder.

Take a look at this Instagram post where I style a shawl using the two, 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 . . .