What are hill tribe beads?
What are hill tribe beads?
Hill Tribe or Thai silver is hand-crafted by the Karen Hill Tribes of Thailand. It is rolled and hammered with primitive tools. They take great care with their designs, and they use stamps on many of the pieces. Because the pieces are handmade, the size and shape will vary a bit from piece to piece.
Does Karen hill tribe silver tarnish?
Karen Hill Tribe silver is 99.9% (100%) Pure Fine Silver. There is no mixing and no added ingredients. It is softer than sterling silver, but will not tarnish as quickly if worn frequently.
What is Karen Silver?
Karen Silver is a type of silver used by members of the Karen Tribe of Northern Thailand for making ornaments and jewelry. Thailand is home to a large number of Karen people from Myanmar who have settled along the boundaries of Thailand and Myanmar.
Is Thai silver good quality?
The high Silver content of Thai Silver makes it softer than Sterling and it does not tarnish near as easy as the copper in Sterling Silver is the alloy that makes it tarnish. The fine Silver content of the metal in Thai Silver makes their Silver Jewelry unique and pleasing to the eye.
What is Karen silver?
What’s the difference between sterling silver and Tibetan silver?
In the past, there was an alloy called Tibetan Silver that actually did contain the element silver. Some vintage Tibetan silver is sterling silver, which is 92.5% silver. The remaining percent could be any combination of other metals, although usually, it is copper or tin.
What is FAS Thai?
What does Thai 925 FAS mean? The FAS mark appears on sterling silver jewelry that is also labeled as 925. FAS stands for fused alloy silver, meaning that a piece of sterling silver jewelry is infused with an alloy. Sterling silver therefore may have a stamp of FAS 925 Thai.
Why Karen hill tribe Silver charms?
Silver charms from Karen Hill Tribe represent the spirit, heart, and mind. This tradition has been passed down in their charms from generation to generation. Spacers are used by Karen Hill Tribe peoples to offset the beauty of the beads used in small bracelets and necklaces.
What is hill tribe silver?
Hill Tribe silver beads, pendants, charms, clasps, earrings and jewelry components – direct from Chiang Mai, Thailand – home to the famous Thai Karen silver crafters. * Purer than Sterling Silver. * Each piece is unique and hand made.
What is thaikarensilver-House’s premium silver jewelry?
Carefully selected by ThaiKarensilver-house, these unique pieces are guaranteed to be more than 99.9% pure silver and have been individually crafted by our Hill Tribe Artisans with only hand and hammer.
What is native Karen craftsmanship?
Every piece is handmade by Native Karen craftsmanship with individual unique designs direct from the Karen hill tribal friends and family-artisans home or their hut and my own workshop.
