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« Seeing how the Europeans and the Americans display T-shirts, often bearing
their national flag, that demonstrate their attachment to their country,” says
Ruweida Mortimer, “I often wonder why we Lebanese do not show patriotic spirit
in the same way, at least through our jewellery. In any case, I am thinking of
creating T-shirts in the style that I have mentioned, ones that combine young
fashion with good quality.
Ruweida Mortimer’s highly original productions differ clearly from the usua
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articles that tourists take away in their luggage as souvenirs of Lebanon.
Those of Ruweida are meant first of all for the local market, before being
intended for travellers to take away with them. Despite her English blood she is
Lebanese to the bone. Instead of being carried away by the flood of accessories
that abound in Lebanon, Ruweida has chosen her own little niche to combine her
love of Lebanon with the demands of every season. She is no novice in artistry,
being a graduate from Achille Angelini studio, where for nearly four years she
followed courses of drawing and painting, thus acquiring a solid aesthetic
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Using Lebanon as a back-drop, with its tourist sites, its distractions and its typical personalities,
Ruweida Mortimer presents a whole range of necklaces and bracelets which draw their inspirations from
the daily life of Lebanon. “One finds on the market many pieces of jewellery with a theme that carries a
message, but nothing concerning Lebanon, except perhaps the cedar tree or a Phoenician emblem.
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