In her home in the town of Beit Jala, west of the city of Bethlehem, which surrounds the Apartheid Wall, Palestinian Nadia Abu Ghattas spends a lot of time gathering olive leaves to move to her simple operator in her home, treating them and turning them into silver pieces of multiple shapes and sizes. Jewelery in a strange and unique way.
Abogtas is seen as a special challenger, challenging the policy of isolation, Israel's actions in uprooting and uprooting perennial olive trees, annexing its lands to the benefit of settlement expansion, and sending a message of peace to the world in a special way, according to the perspective of its profession.
Nadia Abogtas began working in the jewelry and metal industry in 2005, using green olive leaves, which she embellishes with pure silver, to produce precious jewelry, including bracelets, earrings and earrings.
The Palestinian jewelry maker had loved handicrafts and plastic arts since her youth. Her people carved stones and engraved them. She engraved in her mind the art forms that she grew up with, taking on many different shapes after being inspired by perennial olive trees.
The beginning of the idea
The olive trees were small-leafed, small-leafed and large, decorated with Beit Jala, the birthplace of Nadia. But according to Israel's approach to destruction and confiscation, these trees began to shrink. Nadia struggled for her talent to express her love for the tree. Art and silver pieces, attract everyone who saw it.
"The idea of making silver from olive leaves was inspired by the same tree, which I feel resembles me and resembles the people of Bethlehem," says Abughtas, the jewelry maker of Emirates Today. She wondered why they made gold and silver pieces in the shape of a flower, a butterfly or a pearl, olive?".
"I immediately thought about designing small pieces of jewelry in the shape of olive paper," she says.
Abu Ghattas notes that the jewelry she produces from the leaves and branches of the olive tree bears the pure Palestinian character and represents the identity of its people and heritage. The olive tree is the permanent witness for thousands of years on the suffering of the Palestinians and is a symbol of love and peace.
According to Abu Ghattas, the Palestinian bride was adorned with jewelry made with local Palestinian charms, but over time she disappeared. She decided to restore this cultural legacy again, by recreating it in a new and unique fashion that combines elegance and the preservation of cultural identity And Palestinian heritage.
The stages of production
What is produced by the Palestinian jewelry maker in the town of Beit Jala is not just silver pieces in the form of olive leaves and tails, but a mold for each paper, according to its shape and size. The owner of the olive leaf jewelry factory points out that the process of producing pieces of jewelry made from olive trees goes through many stages of 15 stages, starting with picking leaves, twigs, cleaning, arranging and sorting them, through the process of installation in the form of a tree and then plastering them, and burning them in the oven at very high grades, Pure silver in precise and precise proportions, depending on the shape, size and length of the paper.
"In the beginning, I pick up the olive leaves, which are strong and beautiful, and in a second stage I make a template for each paper. Then I get the silver, sometimes the gold in the mold, and I design the shape of the necklace, bracelet or ring and insert some precious stones and beads, "Every piece of jewelry is a replica of the olive paper that I picked."
She explained that the jewelry industry from the leaves of olive trees depends on the process of similarity and homogeneity between the papers, which vary in shape and size from the other, pointing out that it is based on this aspect of the stage of sorting and homogeneity, which need to be accurate in the work.
"The jewelry he produced does not resemble the ones in the market," Abughattas said. "Each one represents a different painting than the other."
Abogtas toured her jewelry from olive leaves around the world. She participated in local and foreign exhibitions, which was a great success due to the desire to purchase and purchase her jewelry.
In the future, Abughattas jewelry maker is seeking to establish her own jewelry and jewelery project, which is purely Palestinian in nature.
- The Palestinian jewelry maker loved the handicrafts and plastic arts since her youth, when her people carved stones and engraved them, and engraved in her mind the manufacture of art forms.