Handmade Beaded Gemstone Silver Leather Tribal Jewellery

Mochishop has launched a new pre-sale support module so that you can talk to one of our helpful assistants about your jewellery needs before making your purchase.  We'll be glad to give you advice about our jewellery, provide you with information about our service or just give you our professional recommendation if you are uncertain what to buy!

Whenever the green light on our chat module is on, a member of staff is free to accept your query.  We look forward to talking with you!

Valentine's Day will be here on February the 14th.  You will need a gift for your loved one.  Or for the person you are hoping to be your loved one.

Want to find the perfect gift quickly? We strongly recommend that you head straight over to our gift jewellery section where we host our gemstone heart jewellery [gemstone heart jewelry].

Our gemstone heart pendants can be given - as they are - as gifts to men or women.  Your loved one can keep their gemstone heart safely to remember the occasion forever.

If you are specifically buying for a female, you may want to add a leather cord to the heart pendant so that it can be worn as a necklace.

We have a multitude of different coloured hearts: rose quartz, green jade, black onyx and turquoise, to name a few.  Just make sure you know his/her favourite colour and gemstone before you buy!

Alternatively, you may want to try our classic silver necklaces with beautiful heart pendants.  To complete the set, why not try our silver heart bangle.

Christmas time is approaching again and it's time to think about furnishing the house in festive decorations.  Decorating the house is straightforward - You need a tree, some baubles and bangles, snow spray and colourful lights.

But what about festive jewellery?  What jewellery should you wear to add some decorative Christmas touches?

Mochishop has the answer.  We have, with great craft and subtlety, incorporated Christmas motifs in our jewellery in such a seamless way that our Christmas jewellery can even be worn any other time of the year.

For example, our specially designed magnetic jewellery is fashioned with striking green and red beads - The colours most prominent at Christmas!  Our magnetic jewellery can be worn as a bracelet, necklace or anklet and would make the perfect Christmas adornment for yourself or as a gift.

Or you can choose Mochishop's extremely limited edition Tree of Gems gemstone necklace.  This lavishly decorated necklace effortlessly caputes the warm tones of Christmas.  The price of this necklace has been halved to celebrate Christmas.  It won't be available for long, so grab it while you can.

The great thing about tribal jewelry is that you often find jewelry is made from unusual, exciting material which you wouldn't associate with more traditional types of jewellery.

One such special material Mochishop uses in its jewellery is ox-bone. Ox-bone is significant because the ox - or Yak - is found in the mountainous Tibetan landscape. Consequently, the use of ox-bone in jewellery is uniquely Tibetan.

That is why much of Mochishop's ox-bone jewellery incoroporates Tibetan designs onto the surface of the bone. Consider our necklace featuring the mystical symbol 'Om', for example. Or our Tibetan necklaces which feature Tibetan patterns.

Moreover, a little further east, in China, the ox is also significant as it features in the Chinese zodiac and connotes the following epithets: Dependable, calm, methodical, born leader, patient, hardworking, ambitious, conventional, steady, modest, logical, resolute, tenacious.

These oxen attributes are represented in our ox-bone jewelry, in the way we design and craft every piece. If you are looking something different to conventional jewellery, if you are looking for something which is exciting and exotic, then our ox-bone jewellery is just the thing you are looking for.

Mochishop likes tribal jewellery [tribal jewelry].  We stock a huge range of what we call tribal, as this is among our design specialities.  But what exactly is jewellery which is "tribal"?

Tribal - in context of jewellery and accessories - is a term which is interchangeable - if not absolutely synonymous - with ethnic or regional.   In other words, we can agree that tribal jewellery has elements of design, material or craft which are exclusively local.  We feel that this a very important distinction, in a world where most things are homogeneous and mass-produced.  Few consumables we buy these days have any real identity.  And surely identity is exactly what we are looking for in a piece of jewellery.

In the first part of What Is Tribal Jewellery? we will give a few illustrations of the products we have which hail from the Eastern part of the globe -

At Mochishop we have, for instance, ox-bone jewellery.  Our ox-bone jewellery is decidedly Tibetan as the ox - or yak to be precise - is a domesticated beast of Tibet.   Consequently our ox-bone jewellery incorporates Tibetan designs and themes.  We have ox bone jewellery bearing Tibetan symbols, necklaces depicting Tibetan cosmology and pendants bearing the Tibetan spiritual chant om mani padme hum.

Many of our ox-bone designs are replicated in other materials.  You will also find Tibetan spiritual chants inscribed on our Tibetan silver ring necklace, and our bronze mantra pendant.

Moving westward from Tibet into China, we have a range of dragon jewellery as the dragon is an important part of Chinese myth and legend.  In true Chinese style, we have a jade dragon necklace as well as a dragon and phoenix bracelet.  Like the dragon, the mythical phoenix is an indelible part of Chinese folklore.  Often the dragon and phoenix are paired together as symbols of lovers, the masculine and feminine.

From Asia we go to Polynesia, from which we have introduced a brand new range of ceramic pendants with Polynesian signatures.  In this style we have both a green swirl necklace and blue swirl necklace.  Other tribal necklaces bear Polynesian god heads.

We hope we have given a clear illustration about what tribal jewellery is, and how it pertains to local culture, not global.  We also hope that you have enjoyed looking at some of our examples of jewellery which are made with Eastern motifs and materials.  Be they Tibetan, Chinese or Polynesian, there are plenty of styles for those who like the look of adventure and exploration.

In Part 2 we'll bring you examples of Mochishop Jewellery [jewelry] that has its origins in the regional cultures of the Western world.

By Woody Allen's own admission, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion is about an insurance investigator (Woody Allen) and an efficiency expert (Elizabeth Berkley) who are hypnotised by a scorpion made from jade.  In spite of the relative poorness of the film, it still makes Mochishop's "jewellery in film" list if only for its explicit reference to jade ornamentation and the fact that the major storyline is about a jewellery heist:

Under the hypnotise influence of the jade ornament, the characters portrayed by Allen and Berkley are compelled to steal expensive jewellery.  The hypnotically spell is activated and deactivated with the respective buzz-words Madagascar and Constantinople.