Chinese Wristband

Loop of cream seeds, each wearing a brown spiderweb of cracks.

This wristband is from China, and is contemporary. A wristband is a broad piece of jewelry worn around the wrist, and its wider surface often allows for pattern, texture or inlay that a thin bangle cannot carry. Oval beads in pale ivory, veined all over with a dark brown crackle network, strung in a round necklace-sized circle. A small knotted brown cord and a rounded bead sit at the top. The beads vary a little in shape. It is 3 inches in diameter.

Lightly cracked, thoroughly charming and fully round.