FANTASTIC NECKLACES

Shannon News, 13 August 1929, Page 4

FANTASTIC NECKLACES

BIZARRE BUT EFFECTIVE

From Paris come fancy wooden necklaces, which are being used as summer jewellery. The beads are twisted together in many strands of blended colours.

This fashion for wooden beads was culled from the Nubians, who wrap themselves in a fantastic fabric and decorate that with, beads,' says a writer. The vbguc has come West—that’s all! You can now find woods that were once only used in the precious sense of cabinet-makers as veneer “turned” into solid beads, studded with golden or silver nail-heads, in true Nubian stylo. They really look lovely in the form of necklaces and bracelets. But rice and cotton are creating a lighter weight for summer wear by being compressed to form string upon string in different colours, knobbled together with contrasting colours.