Throughout 2015, my evenings were filled with red roses and pearls in an attempt to make bridal jewelry. Though it was lucrative, it felt tiring after a point. I longed to try another technique or another color. Fortunately, A client believed in me to create using Silk thread and I made a pink and orange silk thread bridal jewelry set. Shortly after that, another bride to be from Canada asked me to create a Green Silk thread jewellery set. I was elated as I realised that this was a great (read unique) opportunity for me. Hardly any (North) Indian and Bangladeshi brides pick green for their trousseau and the South Indian ones don’t wear DIY/handmade jewelry for weddings.
 Green Silk thread bridal Jewellery
The bride was planning to wear a cream and gold lehengha and her mother’s emerald stone earrings for her big day. So I suggested that we use a mix of rhinestones in green along with pearls and gold beads to do along with her clothes. We started with the bangles and, this time, they were made by Prakashini of Twilightcharms as I couldn’t contact the artist who made them for me the first time around. I picked peacock green and bottle green to go along with emerald for the bangles. It was interesting to try the design in a monochromatic color scheme after making it first in an analogous scheme with orange, red and pink. She also wanted bangles for a little girl (presumably a flower girl) to match her baby pink and muted gold jacquard ghaghra. So I picked baby pink, muted gold, and darker pink for her bangles. We didn’t want any embellishments on the bangles so I went for solids and stripes to keep it simple.
Then two necklaces – a long Rani haar (literally translated as “Queen’s necklace) and a short choker style cord were made with lots of rhinestones, beads, and silk thread.
The next item on the list was a Passa, rather a half passa, something that could be worn on the left side of her head. After my Jhoomar struggle, I figured this out very easily. I used the same focals as in the necklace. For the uninitiated a half passa is worn by placing one focal at the center front forehead and the other focal diagonally over the ear on any side and is clipped tied or pinned. A lot of curious folks ask me how many of these items of Indian jewelry are worn so here is a quick illustration.
Now the only item lacking in the trousseau was earrings, so the bride wanted silk jhumkas to wear as a set after the wedding. So here is the full Green Silk thread bridal Jewellery set – Green Silk thread Bridal full set – Rani haar, thread cord choker, jhumkas, passa, jhumka earrings and Bangles
That brings us to the end of the set. I hope the bride had a wonderful wedding and I wish her a very happy married life.Â
PS: The bride had sent me pictures and I was happy to see that she wore the passa, the cord necklace, bangles and the jhumka earrings on her big day.
I hope you found it interesting
 Cheers
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