Ukrainian chaplets– beautiful adornment and protection

The chaplets for many nations is adornment for girls and women which are made from flowers – alive or artificial and different colourful deteils: feathers, beads, spangles. Ukrainian chaplet decorated bride’s head wedding ceremony and another holidays. Nowadays It isn’t only part of some rituals but also stylish female adornment which became more and more popular.

Every girl has minimal one chaplet in personal stock of clothes.It ideally matches with embroidered shirts, dress or ordinary jeans. Ukrainian chaplet underlines natural owner’s beauty, adds her face features delicacy, subtlety at the same same time confident. In ancient times people supposed that chaplets can protect girls against bad looks and another r disasters. People believed that is adornment has magical strength. The chaplets protected owner’s health; it was only necessary to choose flowers in right.

Ukrainian chaplets abrorbed a lot of symbols and beliefs. They characterize variety of colours and styles, every can attach into this adornment something especially own.

Symbols of flower and ribbons

For Ukrainian chaplet used different flowers . For making one adornment could use even 12 kinds of flowers . Every flower not only adds colours for chaplet but had own symbol. Rose – symbol of love, lily – virginity, mallow– beauty, immortelle–health, bluet– simplicity, peony– longevity guelder-rose – beauty and girl’s beauty, camomile – delicacy, peace, love.

Flowers Ukrainian chaplet weren’t only one part of adornment It was plaited into colourful ribbons that adornment was special and bright Every shadows had particular contest. Light-brown ribbons symbolizes mother-earth. Yellow colour is symbol of sun– energy which gives life for everything alive. Green ribbons symbolized nature, its power and energy. Blue and dark blue defined sky and water.

The yellow warm and orange ribbons symbolized bread, violet – mind. Crimson defined sincerity and pink wealth. White ribbons defined pureness. Every girl can attach into own chaplet wishes, dreams and peculiarities of character and everyone could read it, because symbols of colours were known.

Ways of plaiting chaplets

It was necessary to choose one of the kind before plaiting. There are many kinds of them. In summer time was popular chaplets from alive flowers, It could picked up them in the field or garden. Choose the flowers by yourself, combine them and complete them with ribbons.

It’s necessary to care about strength of adornment. Mainly alive flowers hang out of stalks: stalk of one flower envelops the stalk of another. When the length of chaplet is suitable, it’s possible to fortify it and connect of threads. It’s possible to put inside the basement metal wooden construction. This chaplet will be strong. Alive flowers plated in Ivana Kupala holiday after that put down chaplets on water and they direct in searching happiness and fortune for girls. It was belived thtat boz who catch it became her huaband.

The adornment from alive flowers has one disadvantage they are usable only one. Dried chaplet could be used only at home but on head it doesn’t look attractively. Great alternative for these chaplets became chaplets from artificial flowers. In spite of the huge numbers these adornments in accessories shops, It’s possible to make them by own.

Elements of decoration are possible to but in the special shops. When you will choose by own which flowers will be in you chaplet, you will be sure in its incredibility and originality. Basement of these adornments for head and hair is typical metal ring. Size, kind and colours of flowers depend on you taste. It’s possible to attach into those chaplets spangles, beads and artificial, colourful berries. They will harmoniously match with flowers.

Stalks of artifical flowers are metal. It’s nessary to wrap them around stalks and fix position. In this succession hang out all flowers and another elements of decoration. For protection head against scratches metal wires are hidden by ribbon. Ukrainian chaplet will harmoniously outline you natural beauty and originality.