Central Asian Textiles

My article for Jewellery History Today Winter 23 the magazine of the The Society of Jewellery Historians, London...

Achmatta top smith in Agadez makes a cross on film

Arriving in Niger was a wake up call. Its bewildering, very deprived and as a ‘blanc’ or white as I kept being referred to, I was a...

I bought a large rectangular black stone in the marketplace in Niamey - an onyx or perhaps a black agate. I wondered what to do with it,...