Wooden bracelets

Wooden bracelets

Wooden bracelets are perfect for creating images in casual, ethnic and eco-styles. They look beautiful, stylish and quite inexpensive.

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Varieties

Wood accessories - one of the most ancient types of jewelry.. Today they do not lose their relevance. The desire for simplicity, environmental friendliness, naturalness of everything we touch, makes the tree one of the most desirable materials.

Wood is incredibly malleable, so the imagination of designers is unlimited. It is theoretically impossible to describe all types of wooden bracelets. Let's stop on the most popular models.

Bead Bracelets. It's simple: wooden beads are collected on a rubber band. These can be small beads on a long elastic band, which is wrapped around the arm several times. Another model is just beads of any size, assembled on a string in a row.

Very beautiful accessories are obtained from non-circular beads. For example, a bracelet made from pieces resembling tangerine slices. He gathers beautifully around his wrist and frames it.

Beads can be square, oval, "tubes". Bracelets from long and thin beads, assembled by a palisade, look a bit more predatory - they perfectly emphasize thin wrists.

Solid bracelets made on the basis of wooden blanks. It can be round or square, triangular. Their width is also unlimited.

Such accessories are made of precious wood - then you just need to polish the bracelet well and it will be beautiful in itself, showing a natural pattern. Sometimes these bracelets are covered with artistic painting.

Carved women's bracelets look incredibly elegant. As a rule, such accessories are made by craftsmen by hand - their cost is much higher than bead bracelets. Such accessories are usually to ethno-style, fantasy style and fit perfectly into the summer wardrobe.

Wooden jewelry can be made independently, for example, from popsicle sticks. This is a great idea for children's creativity, although, with certain skills, you can make quite a decent "adult" decoration:

  • Clean chocolates from popsicle should be put in warm water and set on fire. Boil for 15-20 minutes.
  • After this, slightly cooled, the sticks must be gently bent, forming a half ring. You can put them in a wide glass inside, pressed to the walls. Let it dry.
  • After this, the blanks can be removed and painted at their discretion. In addition to paint, you can use lace, thread, ribbon and other ways of decoration.

How to make a bracelet of ice cream sticks, see the following video.

These skilled workers can try decoupage. You need to purchase a blank for a bracelet, which is sold in stores for creativity. With the help of napkins, dekupazhnyh cards or simply printed on the printer pictures, the bracelet is decorated on your own. Acrylic paints, PVA glue and a special fan brush are also useful for work.

Decorations with meaning

For many people, wooden jewelry is more than just accessories.. The bracelet made of wood can be an amulet. For example, a decoration with a symbol "Tree of life", which is revered in many countries. Such a bracelet, on which the tree is present as an interweaving or pendant, is considered a talisman. It is often used by pregnant women - the tree of life is considered a symbol of new life, and also protects against evil forces and gives strength to character.

Believers can wear an accessory with icons - the faces of the saints appear on the square beads.You can choose a bracelet with those biblical characters that are suitable for a particular person.

For those who are not esoteric, the type of wood of which the bracelet is made is important. It is believed that each tree has its own energy and its value.

For example, sandalwood jewelry is very popular, because possess protective properties: they allegedly “do not let” negative energy to the bracelet owner. Very often, these accessories are chosen for children.

For those who are often sick, fit juniper decorations. They smell incredibly delicious.

For success in business and career (which is very suitable for men) - perfect oak decorations, for getting rid of stress - maple.

You can pick up your “own” tree according to the sign of the Zodiac or according to a special calendar - the Druid horoscope.

How to wear

Since wooden bracelets still have a certain style, it is best to wear them in combination with natural fabrics. Flax, cotton, wool will do. Ideal if the fabric is textured: coarse flax, thick cotton, large knitting. Wood ornaments are good for denim, velvet, leather and suede clothes.

If the accessory is made in the color of natural wood, then it will look best with natural shades of fabrics. This is milky, beige, all shades of brown, khaki, terracotta, shades of sand.

The general rules for wearing wooden jewelry are:

  • Natural to natural. Combining different accessories in one image, do not interfere with wood, metal and plastic. Leather accessories are perfect leather accessories, things of bone, horns. You can try a combination of wood with felt, felted, glass beads.
  • It is better not to use such accessories for evening images.

In order not to be mistaken with the selection of jewelry, you need to understand the features of your physique. Thin multi-row threads or several matching bracelets look best on thin and elegant wrists. A wide accessory is also perfect, but its width should visually strongly contrast with the hand.

Holders of full hands better to opt for a fairly wide bracelet that will freely hang on the arm. So he visually narrows the wrist.

Win-win options with wooden bracelet:

  • Classic light jeans, white cotton or linen shirt with a sleeve rolled up to the elbow.
  • Plain cotton dresspossibly floor length. Print - floral.
  • Skinny Base Jeans or trousers-pipes plus an oversized sweater with a sleeve. Ideal if a knit sweater.

Depending on the goals and finances, you can purchase both cheap accessories made of wood (for example, in souvenir shops), and expensive, designer, handmade. You can always find natural jewelery in branded chain stores of various price categories.

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