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Beaded Necklace Among Slavic Women In History

Source: Slavorum

The word “beads” in the modern sense began to be used in the Russian language within the seventeenth century, until then, apparently, Slavs called this kind of decoration simply “necklace”, or in other words “that is worn around the neck.”Archaeologists often write in his works: ” …found a necklace of beads”. In fact, a string of often very large (about 1.5 cm in diameter) beads, similar or different,in  modern man is more likely to remind of the necklace, and not the beads that are seen as such today. In ancient times, beads were a favorite ornament of women from the northern Slavic tribes, while among the southern Slavs it was not so common. They were mostly made of glass up to the ninth and tenth centuries, mostly imported, as glass-making among Slavs could not satisfy the massive demand.

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