Latvian traditional brooch Sakta with runes

Latvian folk dress important role played jewelery. Some jewelry was also a practical significance - they could be clipped to clothing, they used a belt connection (brooches and belt buckles for men). Other rotām- beads and rings are only ornamental in nature. Jewellery worn traditions and their fabrication art developed alongside of the humam kind- by interlacing provisions of  spiritual and material culture conditions, so a separate set of jewelry and stylistics, luxury and compositions.

Archaeological excavations discovered silver and bronze jewelry was technically well developed. Archaeological jewelry mainly coined from copper alloys by Latvian archaeologists referred to as "bronze."Besides bronze ornaments found in the brass and pinchbeck-made jewelry.

The most common type of jewelry 18th and 19th centuries are breast ornaments - they are silver Saktina shirt collar saspraušanai or higher, medium and very large brooches villains clipping.

Latvian WESTERN along the seacoast jewelry made of amber - these are the beads and brooches. Men's folk costumes decorated with leather belts with metal buckles and forged luxurious and metal belts.