Posted 2 months ago
Steptoe1
(1955 items)
Hello I just found a bag with these that I’d put aside , not sure what kind of item they was in , I think I have some more of these , but I don’t know anything about them
Unusual vintage Beads | ||
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Steptoe1, They're known as "evil eye" beads.
They've become popular in modern times, but the concept goes way back in history:
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While the alabaster idols of Tell Brak seem to be one of the oldest eye amulets discovered, they are a far cry from the typical blue glass we know today, the earliest iterations of which didn’t begin appearing in the Mediterranean until around 1500 BCE. How were these early prototypes of Tell Brak distilled into the more modern versions?
“The glass beads of the Aegean islands and Asia Minor were directly dependent upon improvements in glass production,” Yildiran explains. “As for the colour blue, it definitely first comes from Egyptian glazed mud, which contains a high percentage of oxides; the copper and cobalt give the blue colour when baked.”
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https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180216-the-strange-power-of-the-evil-eye
Thanks kera are they mainly Turkish or the whole region
Steptoe1, If you're talking about blue glass evil eye beads similar to the ones in this post:
(Tinurl for "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazar_(amulet)," because CW S&T software doesn't play nicely with links that have an underscore character followed by an open parenthesis character)
Nazar (amulet)
https://tinyurl.com/3zjkcrek
If you're talking about the specific blue glass evil eye beads in this post, they could be from anywhere, because they've become a popular vendor item.