STORY
Artisan
Tamara Hajjir is a recent graduate from the Turquoise Mountain jewellery training programme, expanding on over a decade of work in the arts. Initially specialising in the craft of stone mosaic, she has expanded her skills into silver jewellery design where she has developed her own collection depicting Honeysuckle leaves.
Turquoise Mountain
The crafts skills of the Levant have been endangered by regional instability. Turquoise Mountain aims to train a new generation of Syrian and Jordanian artisans, creating a new generation of craftsmen equipped to maintain these important cultural traditions.