DIY Bracelet Tutorial

Bracelet is a circular jewelry inserted or attached to one's wrist. The ankle-shaped bracelet is called an anklet.

Traditionally, a bracelet is usually made of precious metal; such as gold, silver, platinum or other precious metals, as well as sequences of pearls or beads. Bracelets are sometimes studded with precious stones like diamonds and gems. There are also bracelets carved from intact rocks like jade. Besides being made of metal or rocky minerals, there are also bracelets made from plant fibers, such as from wood or roots (eg root bracelet), or woven and woven plant fibers.

Currently the materials used for making necklaces are quite diverse for example; iron, steel, bronze, copper, ceramics, glass, saga seeds, fabrics, stone, rattan, wood, bamboo, horns, bark, bone, shells, rubber, plastics and many more. Bracelets are usually chain shaped and sometimes added pendant, pendant or pendulum as a sweetener.

Bracelets exist as old as human civilization. Jewelry prehistoric times in the form of stone beads most likely woven as a bracelet or necklace. The golden bracelet of scarab beetle has been around since 5000 BC in Ancient Egypt. Measuring bracelets are also found in other civilizations such as Babylonian, Persian, Ancient Greek, Ancient, Indian and Ancient Chinese.

In Indonesia tribes Nusantara like Batak, Nias, Dayak, tribes in Sumbawa and others have known jewelry such as bracelets, necklaces, and crowns as a form of status marker accessories, especially for kings or chieftains. In the classical culture of the Hindu-Buddhist period of Indonesia on the island of Java and Bali, the bracelet is also one of the attribute jewelry markers of the status of the person wearing it. The nobility, the royal family, and the rich wore gold bracelets as jewelry and markers of social status.

The bracelet can serve as a jeweler or as a marker of the status of the person wearing it. Bracelets have been used throughout history by men and women. Used either as jewelry or to mark differences in many cultures. In some cultures, bracelets can signal the status and social class of the user. The nobility, the royal family, or the rich usually use fancy bracelets of precious metals such as gold and silver and ornamented with gems. In ancient Middle Eastern and Ancient Roman cultures, a special neck strap bracelet or necklace was worn by slaves to mark their status.

Now in modern times bracelets can also be included label, tag, or sheet that is written identity of the person who wear it. Use like this eg hospital patient bracelet, or tag bracelet on concert audiences or club guests. Other contemporary uses such as a friendship bracelet, the same bracelet worn by a pair or a group of friends, or colorful rubber bracelets that indicate a particular theme of solidarity, such as HIV-AIDS solidarity, nationalism or other solidarity themes.