These days all I seem to have time for, is flower jewellery. Creating flower jewellery seems to be rather painless. Yes, I still need to correspond with the client, tens of times over mail or phone, sometimes both and yes its painstaking work, with no guarantee of how it will turn out to be but it somehow comforts me. It’s become, a sort of convention now, one that I am able to fit into my routine, even in bits and pieces. Here is a set a made using real pink roses (paneer roses) for a Seemandham function.
Seemantham flower jewellery
Seemandham is a sort of baby shower, where the mother–to-be is blessed by her friends and family. Called Seemandham in the south and Godh Barayi in the North, it is a function where the father claims the paternity of the child. In some communities women are adorned with glass, gold and silver bangles in each hand which they will continue to wear until their delivery. This ritual is based on practicality as glass bangles could be jingled to get attention of family members, if the mother to be was in distress or going into labour and couldnt call out. Also her family could place her at all times, just by following the jingle of her bangles, making sure that she was never alone.
My client wanted hot pink roses with gold beads to match her saree and hair do for the function. She required both short and long necklaces, earrings and a matha patti (forehead ornament. that goes around the head). This was the first time that I had done an elaborate forehead ornament. It had graduating sizes of light and dark flowers and three lines of beads at the side. I balanced out the pearls in it by adding pearls all over the set.
Making real flower jewellery is often very tough. It has to be done at the last possible minute as you want the flowers to last through the event. You cannot be sure if the materials you get on that particular day will match your client’s requirement. I had reserved hot pink roses for this client, but my florist just took a sick day, so bye bye roses. I had to visit multiple florists and send so many alternates to the client to finalise the flowers. Ofcourse emotions ran high at the last moment, but we finally figured it out and the set was made at 12AM and photographed around 1 AM under tubelight, hence the color difference of items in the pictures.
When a client gives a real flower set order, I usually counsel them on the pros and cons to make sure that they understand what goes into making a set, how long it will last and why it costs so much so that they have no disappointments in the end. But still, as a maker, I have butterflies in my stomach, until the client gives a positive feedback. She loved them and the client sent me photos of the event. I was really glad that the pieces fit in perfectly with her saree, makeup and the decor of the venue.
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