Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Jewellery Articles

Rarely a traditional ornament is simply decorative and devoid of inherent meaning or symbolic value. Symbols found in Pakistani jewellery act as a metaphorical language communicated from the wearer to the viewer. Such jewellery is created from an infinite reserve of symbolically significant forms and images, some obvious, some subtle, and some whose meaning is forgotten.

The impulse to adorn stems from a deep-rooted sensibility to mark every occasion of life. Thus a fully bedecked Pakistani woman evokes in the viewer a deep and ingratiating feeling of tranquil contentment, springing from an intuitive realization that evolving is an image of perfect beauty, symbolically conveying the richness and completeness which is but natural to nature.