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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9456651, member: 2844&quot;]Gorgeous, and you&#039;re right, Middle East. Either Yemeni or Yemenite.</p><p>Yemeni means from Yemen, and Yemenite means Israelis of Yemeni origin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yemenites still work in the Yemeni style, but often add modern touches.</p><p>To confuse things, Yemenis have also begun to modernise their jewellery, but in slightly different ways.</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is that this is Yemeni, so from Yemen. The main metal elements are probably from older pieces, Yemenis recycle a lot. They would have replaced the cabs to match the beads. The original cabs could have been blue glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is filigree. Filigree comes from the French filigrain, meaning thread and grain/granule, which is what you see here.</p><p>Cannetille is twisted wire, like a thin tube, that is curled around a metal ball or granule.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Dutch regional jewellery cannetille is often called &#039;spinnetjes&#039;, little spiders.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Cannetille does indeed resemble little spiders, so maybe that is a way to remember it. So when you see filigree that looks like little spiders you&#039;re looking at cannetille.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Gilded silver maybe? Yemeni silver is usually .835 or lower.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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