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Victorian Craft: Beaded Bracelet

on April 22, 2010 – 3:02 am

Wrist jewelry was an essential fashion accessory in the 19th century. Period fashion plates show that decorative bracelets were worn in pairs. The matching ornaments ranged from ornately jeweled gold bracelets to beaded or embroidered velvet bands. Ladies’ magazines provided designs and instructions for women of leisure to create beaded bracelets in their favorite colors. Now you can recreate a vandyke bracelet from the 1850s using colorful glass beads or cut steel beads. Read full story.

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