Stylists note that in modern fashion wood jewelry is experiencing a rebirth. The first reason is the trends of the fashion industry, the second reason is the desire to wear original things from natural materials, to be closer to nature. The tree, having been processed and acquiring a stylish design look, gives warmth, surprises with its texture and unusual look.
Advantages and disadvantages
Warm summer weather is a time of freedom, carelessness and the opportunity to experiment with your image, trying on different types of jewelry. Wooden accessories can make your look trendy and memorable.
But like any jewelry, wooden bracelets have their own advantages and disadvantages.
The advantages of jewelry include:
- Organic. Massive wood looks harmoniously with light flying outfits, finding a balance between the elements.
- Versatility. Bracelets made of wood can be painted in any colors, have a lot of design decisions, so they will fit many clothes.
- Conciseness. Tree and ethnic style are indivisible concepts. Thanks to this tandem, it is easy to create a super-trendy fashionable image, simple but bright.
- Focusing on the details. The wide bracelet perfectly emphasizes the fragility and elegance of the wrist.
- Compatibility with other accessories. A wooden bracelet is a self-sufficient decoration, but if you like, you can combine it with something else.
- Durability. Due to the lacquer coating bracelets will last a long time.
- Ease and convenience. The material does not rub, does not dig into the skin, does not cling to clothes.
- Such a simple accessory - a bracelet made of wood, creates the very summer mood that pushes you to travel, walk up in the morning, feel young and carefree.
The only disadvantage is that wood decorations are far from any style.. For example, they are unacceptable on the background of sportswear and office dress code.
Models
How nice that designers always try to surprise fashionistas and pamper them with exclusive items! Today you can find several models, interesting and stylish, combining the attractiveness of ethnics and modern fashion trends.
Of beads
Bracelets are concise, but attracting attention. Beads can be different: large and small sizes, arbitrary shapes, intertwined with each other, figures, separated by knots or other elements.
The most popular beaded bracelet is Shambhala. Once it was the guardian of the ancient tribes from the evil forces, today it is a detail that is in great demand among young people.
Solid wood
A unique piece from which beautiful jewelery is obtained. These bracelets are comfortable, practical and not subject to fashion trends. A solid array will complement the evening dress, an urban-style look, an ethnic dress.
Sectional
Look fresh and not beaten. They can consist of wooden blocks of any geometric shapes - rectangles, ovals, squares, circles, or have an irregular, intricate shape.
From wooden sticks
A unique decoration that you can create with your own hands. To do this, you need a wooden medical staple or a regular ice cream stick. The workpiece is soaked in water for a day so that it can be bent. Then placed inside the glass so that it acquired a rounded shape, and leave for a day. Then the most interesting begins - the endless possibilities for decorating the future fashion bracelet.
Decor
Wood is unpretentious material, it is easy to work with it for needlewomen in any technique. Therefore, in the manufacture of bracelets wooden blank is combined with a variety of other materials.
A common option - painting. It can be any floral, animalistic ornaments, ethnic motifs, shapes, images. Acrylic paints are mainly used, after drying the surface is covered with a thin layer of varnish.
Designers add opposite textures to the wood - metal, leather, stones (amber, coral), ceramics, pieces of fur, mother of pearl.
Epoxy resin allows you to implement various ideas, create flat and voluminous decorations.
Tree view
Masters use various kinds of trees for bracelets. If we consider the tree from the esoteric point of view, as a charm, you should pay attention to the following types of tree:
- Oak - a symbol of strength and will to win. It gives the owner such qualities as endurance, courage, sense of purpose;
- birch protects the family hearth, harmonizes relations between partners;
- tender willow helps in education, profession and personal life;
- aspen neutralizes negative energy;
- Rowan helps to find friends, to become more communicative;
- alder and sandalwood saved from the evil eye;
- conifers give positive energy and peace of mind.
Care
Wooden decorations do not require special care. But do not expose them to mechanical force (pressure, compress), direct sunlight, chemicals for cleaning.
Stylists have developed a small memo with tips that will help extend the life of wooden jewelry:
- Keep away from sharp objects such as knives, nail files, scissors.
- Observe the temperature and humidity conditions - fold away from the batteries, do not leave in the bathroom.
- Use a container or box with soft upholstery.
- Avoid contact with household chemicals, cosmetics, perfumes, alcoholic medical solutions, ink from pens.
What to wear?
The list of clothes with which wooden bracelets are combined is small. But best of all they look with things from natural materials - cotton, flax, wool.
A wooden bracelet with a light dress in ethnic style or with a rough knit sweater is a good example of stylish combinations.
Jeans - an indispensable tool in the construction of everyday bows with ornaments made of wood.
As for the color palette, the tree creates a single sound with natural shades of pine needles, young foliage, golden sand, azure sky.