It is difficult to determine who likes to wear bracelets made of natural stones: men or women, adolescents or children, quite adults or young people.
Elegance, beauty, grace ... And what else?
For a long time almost magical qualities have been attributed to natural minerals:
- protective and therapeutic;
- protecting from evil forces;
- attracting love and luck;
- increasing the energy of the owner.
Those who seek wisdom wear rings or serpentine bracelets. Want to bring happiness to your life? Turquoise and rose quartz will help. Agate will attract success and give thoughts a calm flow.
Made of precious metals, of gold and silver, even on the basis of an ordinary leather or silk cord, bracelets made of natural stones always look elegantly on the wearer's hand.
Buy or do it yourself?
The properties of the stone are transmitted to a person through direct contact with the skin, providing a healing and energetic effect. It’s not at all necessary to buy ready-made hand jewelry. It is enough to choose round or oval stone beads and string them on a string.
Bracelets made of natural stones can raise the mood or protect against the "evil eye", relieve pain and normalize pressure. Unfortunately, a photo cannot convey all the beauty and variety of color shades of minerals. They need to be held in hands, to feel. Only in reality it is possible to enjoy the brightness, color depth and the uniqueness of the texture that natural stones possess. Beads for bracelets in the right amount are strung on a silk cord or a stretching special fishing line. Having tied the ends of the cord with a special knot - a lock, you can put the product on your hand and enjoy the result.
A homemade bracelet is cool!
As you know, when working on absolutely any product, the master, regardless of qualification, transfers a particle of his energy to the finished work. And it doesn’t matter at all which product is obtained as a result: rings or earrings, clothes or shoes, souvenirs or bracelets made of natural stones. With your own hands you can do a completely unusual thing, not like any other.
The simplest option is to string the beads onto a strong stretching thread. By the way, if suddenly the pebbles in the process of wearing fly apart from the hand, it means that they took upon themselves some negative impact and took the troubles away from the “owner”. The beads can be reassembled into the product, after holding it for some time in the sun or a few seconds under running water. The stone will be cleaned of "dirt" and will again be ready to protect its owner.
About the classic "Shambhala" bracelets
It is believed that bracelets made of natural stones, woven according to a special technology, help their wearer find inner harmony, feel calm, pacify. Initially, such bracelets were made by Buddhist monks who believed that they protect themselves from evil spirits and various demons. Having tied up nine special knots, they recited mantra ropes. Subsequently, beads and plates with magic symbols began to be woven into laces with knots. Such bracelets got their name by the name of a mystical place in Tibet called Shambhala.
Shamans of India used the properties of precious and ornamental stones known to them, weaving 9 beads (corresponding to heavenly planets) between the nodes. So there was a “Shambhala” bracelet made of natural stones.
The monks claim that a talisman made in accordance with all the rules attracts to its owner the positive influence of the planets, which has a beneficial effect on his life. The energy of the bracelet balances the effect of the celestial planets on the health, finances and success of a person.
Manufacturing rules
Just make bracelets from natural stones with your own hands. Many are familiar with macrame weaving techniques when flat straight knots are tied on two threads. In the Shambhala product, knots with beads (9 + 9) alternate and use the following stones: ruby and pearls, coral and emerald, yellow sapphire and diamond, blue sapphire, hessonite, and cat's eye. Each of these stones corresponds to its own planet: the Sun and the Moon, Mars and Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn, two “shadow planets” Rahu and Ketu.
Weaving ends with the so-called "sliding lock", which allows you to put the product on your hand of any size. In modern simplified versions of bracelets, a different number of beads is used: from 3 to 9 pieces.
How to wear and care for a mascot
Bracelets made of natural stones are not just and not only talismans. They are mainly worn for a beautiful and stylish decoration of the wrists. And, of course, I want to keep the appearance of the product and the radiance of the stone for a long time. Adhering to elementary rules, you can please yourself with your favorite jewelry for a long time. What are these rules?
- Precious and semiprecious stones are far from the most durable material. Therefore, they should be protected from mechanical shocks and falls on hard or concrete surfaces. Otherwise, the beads may crack or break.
- Do not handle bracelets made of natural stones with chemicals and subject them to heat.
- To keep the jewelry in good condition, remove it before visiting saunas and spa treatments, pools and tanning salons.
- To preserve the energy of the stone, you must periodically give it a "rest": before going to bed, remove it from your hands, rinse once a week with a stream of water for several seconds.
Bracelets with natural stones woven into the base have become popular in many countries since the end of the 20th century. And it doesn’t matter at all whether the stones possess the magical properties that are attributed to them. If a person believes in a miracle, it will happen.