We had our anniversary dinner last Friday
and Zack got me the most beautiful necklace as a present. It’s a traditional
Croatian design found in the Dalmatian region called Konavle
buttons. Mine was made by this wonderfully eccentric man with a great moustache.
He explained every step was done by hand, including pounding thin strips of
silver and folding them into intricate designs. The work is amazing because the
ball is hollow and the amount of detail is enormous. You can’t tell in the
photo but the bits that look solid are really pieces of silver that have been
folded into a fan shape and fit into the gaps. The traditional Konavle buttons where made of gold not silver. They where also much larger
ranging from about the size of a golf ball (for special occasions and the rich)
to large cherries (for personal decoration). I was told by one of my friends
that they where also given to girls at their conformation because before that girls "did not fully appreciate jewelry”.
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