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Nambi polymer clay bangle. I am keeping this one to myself.
Nambi technique step by step tutorial is available in my Etsy shop.
this bangle is a portal; a subtle tear in time and space, an aperture of imagination....
let your body be the conduit! wear it and you can feel its weight, jangling on your wrist, resting on the top of your hand. touch the inside of the portal and you will discover a secret message, a poetical talisman for you and you alone! travel to the tips of your cortex, envision the ends of the earth --
be a beam of light.
next take a little more of the softened clay and working in the direction you will be scraping (ie if for example you are recreating hair you would want to scrape following the lines of the hair.) begin to scrape the clay over the surface of the bangle...kinda like buttering bread
(here i have spread the clay over the lower part of the design)
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Hand felted bangle rolled from soft merino wool and embellished with delicate embroidery, lace, and ochre beadwork.
Bangles are part of traditional Indian jewellery, worn by women after marriage to signify matrimony. It is tradition that the bride will try to wear as many small glass bangles as possible at her wedding and the honeymoon will end when the last bangle breaks. According to tradition, a woman is not supposed to buy the bangles she will wear.
They are circular in shape, and, unlike bracelets, are not flexible. The word is derived from Hindi bungri (glass). They are made of numerous precious as well as non-precious materials such as gold, silver, platinum, glass, wood, ferrous metals, plastic, etc.
They are usually worn in pairs , one or more on each arm. Most Indian women prefer wearing either gold or glass bangles or combination of both. Inexpensive bangles made from plastic are slowly replacing those made by glass, but the ones made of glass are still preferred at traditional occasions such as marriages and on festivals.
The designs range from simple to intricate handmade designs, often studded with precious and semi-precious stones such as diamonds, gems and pearls. Sets of expensive bangles made of gold and silver make a jingling sound. The imitation jewelry, tend to make a tinny sound when jingled.
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Bangles or churi ( Hindi:चूड़ी (Choodi), Bengali: চুড়ি (churi), Urdu: چوڑیاں, Kannada: gajina bale,Tamil: Valayal, Telugu: గాజు, Malayalam: Vala, Nepali: Chura) are traditional ornaments worn mostly by South Asian women in India and Bangladesh, especially Hindus. Wikipedia
Bangles, lots and lots of them - A woman's delight, and a man's nightmare. To all the women folk - no hard feelings. :-)
Shot Just outside the Bull Temple at Basavangudi, Bangalore.
Cuando vi esta pulserina en el Beadwork de febrero me enamoré de ella y me dije que la tenia que hacer. El resultado es alucinante, me quedé corta con las long magatama pero aun así la hice con cierre. Tengo que hacerme con más material para poder hacer unas cuantas porque quedan guapisimas puestas. Decir que la foto no le hace justicia pero no me voy a repetir como el ajo jejejejeje
Espero que os guste.
Muchas gracias por pasar y por comentar.
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Read this significance somewhere...
Question 1: Do you think all the Sikhs wearing bangle in whatever form are such people and they don’t get angry?
Anger is a normal human emotion. The Sikhs are human too.If the Sikhs never get angry, then that means they became ‘Godly’. The idea is to control the anger as much as we can using any ‘tools’ that are available. Some people count from 10 to 0, some people use chemicals but there are better ways. The Sikh bangle is a symbol of God having no beginning or end. In our culture ‘Kala Bhairava’ has no beginning or end. Bangle is a circle. The circle has no beginning or end. Thats why our culture invented “Zero”.The rest of the world initially laughed at us when they first encountered Zero. They said zero has no value. Look who is laughing now !!! In many parts of our country, the most respected, honorable people are addressed as “Total Zeroes”.If you want more proof I can gladly provide it.
Question 2: if bangles have such a proven benefits why is that men don’t wear it as a common practice ?
Why don’t you wear it ? Men worked in the farmland. Have you tried working in the field with both hands full of bangles ? Men working in an electronic lab wear a bangle connected to the earth(bhumi devi) so the static energy from their body discharges to the dhathri (earth).This is one of the reason why traditionally married woman wear metal ring on the second toes of both their feet. In the next sentence you said women are different from men.In that sense comparing men and women are as bad as comparing apples and oranges.
Question 3: Moreover, ‘wearing bangles’ is an idiom attributed to ‘womanlyness’. That is why when we want to tease a man as an powerless, impotent, loser etc. we say “go and wear bangles”. How do you explain this?
‘wearing bangles’ is NOT ‘womanlyness’. In fact womanliness has absolutely nothing to do with wearing bangles. If someone want to tease a man as a powerless, impotent, loser etc by calling them a woman, then that man does not have any respect for women. Lets not forget we all came from a woman. This is the reason(one of the reasons) why we call our land as Mother land(Bhaarath Matha). Western cultures like Germany etc call their land as Father land.The father cannot give birth. There is too much western influences in our country these days.
Question 4: Traditions are traditions, they can be understood, if you want to, only in that socio-cultural framework. Physical, physiological and psychological science need not come here :
Are you saying “anything a westerner says is science” and anything we say is superstition, eastern mysticism etc ? Unfortunately I have to disagree. Unlike western traditions, our traditions if they are followed by a major community then it is based on ‘science’, Engineering and beyond ! When I wakeup in the morning, ‘traditionally’ I touch the Mother Earth with my hand to say sorry because I am going to step on her. Why ?.. Because I am a Scientist, Engineer and Inventor who started learning serious psychology at 10 years of age thats why. Now for the science behind it, the human body produces static electric voltage between 10000 volts to 14000 volts. This happens when you are not in contact with the earth(rubber sandals,shoes,bed etc). If you been to colder places like canada, north america,europe etc you learn how painful this is. So by touching the earth you are discharging the static through the upper part of your body. Electric current is the flow of negatively charged electrons. When these negative charges are gone from the upper body whats left is positive charge.This means your upper body have more positive energy for the rest of the day ! Now for the psychological part, the act of saying sorry(to a friend, mother, sister, wife, father etc) makes us humble, free and happy. Try saying to your wife “I am sorry for not recognizing what you are doing for me everyday, but from now on I will value you more than me” and see how her face lights up. You will live like a King, I promise.
End Note: I could give you so many examples and write a 1000 books about our Bhaaratheeya(Hindu) traditions but time, space and money does not allow me. I gotta work to eat ! If I have used sharp words in my explanations, its my way of giving an electric shock so the dark corners of your brain lights up.
Traditional Indian Glass Bangle. Glass is a descendent of ceramic; which was used in the Indus Valley Civilization for making bangles. Archeologists have unearthed bangle fragments of a material they termed "vitreous paste". If this material had been heated to a high enough temperature (above 1260 F, the point at which vitrification occurs), the result would have been a kind of glass. [ Buy Rights ]
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A mosaic of two different pics..
colorful world of Indian culture..
-the bangles were wrapped in plastic, thus the plastic crumpled like effect...
-the sarees has price tag on it!
At last I could find my way to transfer a colored image onto raw clay and make a big hollow bangle bracelet! It took me ages! Imagine how I am happy!