Antigua and Barbuda Bangles Bracelet Collection 61

Antigua and Barbuda Bangles Bracelet Collection

By Aamir Mannan.
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 jewellery, tends to make a tinny sound when jingled.

Bangles are circular in shape, and, unlike bracelets, are not flexible. The word is derived from Hindi bungri (glass).[5] They are made of numerous precious as well as non-precious materials such as gold, silver, platinum, glass, wood, ferrous metals, plastic, etc. Bangles made from sea shell, which are white colour, are worn by married Bengali and Oriya Hindu women. A Special type of Bangle are worn by women and girls, especially in Bengal area commonly known as "Bengali Bangle", which is used as a substitute of costly Gold bangle, and is produced by fixing a thin Gold strip (weight varies between 1 to 3 gms.) is thermo-mechanically fused onto a bronze bangle, followed by manual crafting on that fused Gold strip.