Antique African Trade Bead and Lapis Bracelet RUG This charming antique garnet ring

This charming antique garnet ring is handmade with sterling silver and four lovely garnets

Whether you hang this rug on the wall or display it on the floor

displays Thapa's expert use of traditional iconography and his artistic creativity as he adapts a traditional subject into a groundbreaking design

The necklace is completed by lapis beads from Afghanistan

and you have a charming piece

Antique African Trade Bead and Lapis Bracelet RUG This charming antique garnet ringThis striking bracelet is highlighted by an antique African Trade Bead. These 19th century beads were handmade in Murano, the tiny island next to Venice, Italy, and traded with Africa. So important was this glass bead making to Venice's prosperity that the master glass blowers were treated as royalty but were not allowed to leave the island state. The bracelet is completed with bright blue Afghani lapis. This one of a kind bracelet carries a long