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BRACELET "MARCH ALMOND BLOSSOM"
BRACELET "MARCH ALMOND BLOSSOM"
Knitted bracelet with porcelain motif, painted by Charis Handmade.
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BRACELET ''MARCH ALMOND BLOSSOM''

Knitted bracelet with porcelain stoneware motif painted by Charis Handmade.

 

THE HISTORY OF ''MARCH'' BRACELET

From the 1st until the 31 of March, used to be worn on the wrist a bracelet made of twisted white and red thread, the "March".

According to the tradition, the "March" bracelet is worn mainly by children to protect their faces from the first sun shines of spring.

The "March" bracelet is made on the last day of February and worn either as ring or as bracelet.

The "March" bracelet doesn't worn it only by people. In some areas of the country people used to hung, during the night, thread in the branches of rose bush to donate flowering, while in other areas they put it around the pitchers, to protect the water from the sun and keep it cold.

Elsewhere they used to wear the bracelet until the arrival of the first swallows, then they left it on rose bushes, so the birds get it and build their nest.

Elsewhere they wear it until the Resurrection, while they tie it on Easter candles until they burn.

The "March" bracelet is an ancient custom spread across the Balkans.

Then the Byzantines adopt the custom and maintain it. Is believed to have originated in Ancient Greece, and specifically in the Eleusinian Mysteries, because the initiates of the Eleusinian Mysteries used to tie a thread, the "Krokis" in their right hand and their left foot.

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