Pale Ivory Flower Bridal Fascinator by HanamiGallery
35,00 USD
This kanzashi is beautiful and has terrific color and sheen.
Each flower is made out of the finest, most glamorous ivory silk I could find. The middles of each flower feature a gold toned bead cap and a white Swarovski pearl. The silk has really fantastic sheen in the sunlight!
There are likewise two velvet entrusts lots of texture that I added gold accents to. Lastly there is a few pearl accents.
The flowers measure about 3 inches at its widest and longest. The leaf and pearl accents are each 1.5 inches long making the entire piece about 5.5 inches at its longest from leaf to leaf.
Each flower is backed with 100 % wool felt. The flowers and leaves are connected to a silver toned hair comb.
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What Is Tsumami Kanzashi ??
Tsumami implies to pinch. Kanzashi indicates hair stick. What this implies is that each petal is made out of a square piece of silk that is pinched together with tweezers to make the shape. Each petal is then arranged together with other petals to make the flower type. It is like device origami just with hand colored silk, vintage silks, and robe silks!
Today in Japan
Even Maiko – apprentice Geisha – wear huge elaborate kanzashi for each period!