Just Classic : Romeinse sieraden

01/02/2020

Attention to all reenactors and Roman dress enthusiasts: the new book on the toga is now officially out!
"The Toga and Roman Identity" was launched yesterday evenening by the author Ursula Rothe() and accompanied by a fabulous demonstration of the various toga drapes.
If you've always wanted to know all the ins and outs of the toga, here's your chance!

12/01/2020

at Teylers museum in Haarlem. It's a wonderfully original 18th century museum. Their collection consists of Dutch and Italian paintings and drawings, fossils (pic on the right shows a mosquito in a piece of amber, but they also have dinosaur bones) encyclopedias, (gem)stones (including many of the gemstoned that were already in use in antiquity, such as Lapis Lazuli) and all kinds of early scientific instruments.

I heartily recommend this museum to tourists (with or without children).

@ Teylers Museum

23/11/2019

*english below*
Prachtige sieraden in de tentoonstelling "geheimen uit Gelderse bodem" in het CODA.

Linksboven: 2 romeinse armbanden in git gevonden in Nijmegen. Git kwam uit Engeland, en wordt nog steeds uit de kliffen van Whitby gehaald.

Linksonder en rechtsboven: 2 bronzen nekringen (torques) uit de ijzertijd gevonden bij Uddel

Rechtsonder: de scherven van glazen armbanden uit de late ijzertijd gevonden in Beuningen.

Beautiful local finds of prehistoric and roman jewellery in the exhibition in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.

Ab. left: jet bracelets from the Roman city of Nijmegen. Jet was mined in Whitby, in !

Ab. right and bel. left: two bronze iron-age neck rings (a.k.a. torques) from Uddel. I would do anything to wear these just once! 😍

Bel. right: parts of broken glass (!) bracelets from the iron age found in Beuningen.

23/11/2019

*english below*
De foto's in dit tentoonstellingsboek over sieraden uit Gelderland, geschreven door , zijn oogstrelend! 😍 Dit is echt precies wat ik nodig heb om de details van deze sieraden goed te bekijken en mooie reproducties te maken! 😁

All I ever ask of a book on jewellery is big and good pictures so I can feast my eyes at the pretty little details (and make better reproductions!) 😍😍This book on prehistoric to early modern jewellery found in the province of Gelderland by does that perfectly!

11/11/2019

Lisbon trip 2: the national archaeological museum. I wasn't allowed to take pictures of their beautiful collection of shiny gold bronze to Roman era jewellery 😭😭😭 (torques, earrings, spiral bracelets and more!) but I did manage to take a few pictures of the epigraphic collection. It's a small but pretty (and cheap!) museum, and if you love jewellery and inscriptions like I do it's perfect!

05/11/2019

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An 8,000-year-old pearl has been unearthed during excavations on Marawah Island near Abu Dhabi, which have also revealed the earliest architecture ever recorded in the United Arab Emirates.

archaeology.org/news/

(Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism)

10/07/2019

Happy client with her newly bought set: a vessonite (or Vesuvianite) necklace and green agate and pearl earrings based on finds from Oplontis and
These geen stones complement her silk stola and blue-green eyes perfectly ❤

08/07/2019

Another happy client! The fearsome yet beautiful showing off her lunula amulet necklace. Perhaps the goddess Artemis will help you win yet more fights in the arena in the future!

19/06/2019

Spotted! This funerary portrait from Roman Egypt depicts a woman wearing 'crotalia' earrings (pearls or gemstones hung from a bar in a row). This is my favourite type of Roman jewellery and the best-selling item in my collection too!
I just love it when the images match with the archaeology so well!

19/06/2019

Ik ben er ook bij: kom dus vooral kijken bij de Romeinse sieradenkraam!

I'll be there: make sure to check out our jewellery stand at this lovely event!

ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN - Begin juli nemen Romeinen opnieuw een weekend lang het centrum van Alphen aan den Rijn over. Op zaterdag 6 en zondag 7 juli vindt, evenals vorig jaar, het Romeins Weekend plaats. Tussen 12.00...

05/06/2019

All the books me and bought this holiday (so far....)!! 😁 Books in the UK are so cheap, we just can't resist! Our campervan is turning into a library more each day

12/05/2019

Great fun at the first workshop Roman jewellery diy today! 😃
We made Roman hoop-and pendant bead earrings in pearls, lapis lazuli and carnelian.
@ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

12/05/2019

06/05/2019

Ik beveel dit boek van harte aan! Dit is een leuk boek voor iedereen die meer wil weten van de schoonheidsrituelen van Romeinse dames. Een perfect moederdagkadootje dus. Bestel 'm op www.beleefhetverleden.nl

20/04/2019

Fixed my Roman gap-sleeved dress! I made the dress from a white linen-cotton blend (yes the Romans also used cotton:, it was first brought from India and then cultivated in Egypt and Syria from the 1st cent. AD onwards). I bought the fabric second-hand but it was too short for me. So I added a blush pink linen border to make it long enough to be decent enough for a matrona. Such (decorative) borders can be found on many paintings, such as the one from Herculaneum (2nd image). I can't wait for the first event of the year to wear it! 😊

19/04/2019

Ter ere van het thema 'Waar zijn de Vrouwen?' van de heb ik een column geschreven over de sporen doe we wél hebben van vrouwen in de Romeinse tijd in NL.
LEES 'M op:
Https.romeinen.nu/romeinenweek/thema/column-vrouwen-onzichtbaar-welnee
(link in bio)

16/04/2019

De 1e workshop is VOLGEBOEKT! Wel kan je nog meeloten voor twee kaartjes voor de andere workshop op moederdag. Like de pagina van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden en schrijf je in op rmo.nl/moederdag-facebook!

14/03/2019

Today I gave a lecture on Roman dress to archaeology students in Leiden, dressed like a Roman lady.
We had great fun exploring all the different dress traditions of the northwestern provinces. From left to right: Gallic dress, iron age dress, 6th century dress and Italian Roman dress. Several items connected to apparel and fashion such as a fan, bone comb and bronze mirror were passed around the room as well.