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| Secret gardens, imagined nature The Amazigh world is complex and rich. The natural
and symbolic representation is expressed with ceramics,
designs of carpets and tapestries, henna tattooing and,
also, jewellery. A good part of floral, vegetal, geometric
and animal decorations have a protective function. This
knowledge is shared by both sexes and the function of
the object is as important as its aesthetic and symbolic
values.
The Amazigh peoples occupy very different and distant
territories. This geographic diversity is made clear because
they inhabit coastal areas, mountains, plains, deserts
and oases, which allows us to demystify an image that
historically has been linked to the desert and nomadism.
Despite this, many of the shapes and decorative motifs
used in jewellery show many similarities despite the
geographic distance. In the first place, because some
vegetal and geometric motifs used are survivors of
their real or utopian environment, forming part of
their imagined nature but also because some of the
adornments are recreations of Lybico-Berber writing, of
Tifinagh: lines crossed by perpendicular traits, dots and,
also, triangles.
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