Bangle Bracelets Women's jewellery

Bangles or Churi are traditional ornaments worn by Indian women, especially Hindus. They are worn after marriage to signify matrimony. It is tradition that the bride will try to wear as many small glass bangles as possible at her wedding and the honeymoon will end when the last bangle breaks.

They are circular in shape, and, unlike bangle bracelets, are not flexible. The word is derived from Hindi bungri (glass). They are made of numerous precious as well as non-precious materials such as gold, silver, platinum, glass, wood, ferrous metals, plastic, etc.
Bangle bracelets are part of traditional Indian jewelry. They are usually worn in pairs by women, one or more on each arm. Most Indian women prefer wearing either gold or glass bangles or combination of both. Inexpensive bangles made from plastic are slowly replacing those made by glass, but the ones made of glass are still preferred at traditional occasions such as marriages and on festivals.
Bangle bracelets is an article of jewelry which is worn around the wrist. Bracelets can be manufactured from leather, cloth, hemp, plastic ormetal, and sometimes contain rocks, wood, and/or shells. Bracelets are also used for medical and identification purposes, such as allergy bangle bracelets and hospital patient-identification tags.

Bangle braceletss were probably  worn from the very beginning of Indian history. Literary texts like the Ramayana, Mahabharata, the puranas, Kalidas's epics andsangam literature refer in detail to the types of jewellery used by both men and women. Stone, terracotta, and bronze sculptures from the Sunga period to the Nayak period illustrate women with bangle bracelets. From the visual depictions it appears that bangle bracelets were initially circular. Later, these rings became broader and acquired different names, depending upon the place and language.

Throughout India bangle bracelets, worn in pairs, one on each bangle, are common, though not all function as marriage ornaments. Among the poorer people and especially among more isolated communities it is common to find banglets of base metals like white metal, copper, and copper alloys such as brass and bronze. However, in most places, banglets are made in silver. Bangle bracelets  are of two basic types, i.e. the stiff and the flexible. The stiff bangle bracelets are either cast or fabricated by hammering sheet metal into the requisite shape. Using the techniques of chiseling, engraving, repousse, granulation or threading and wire work, bangle bracelets are patterned. The flexible variety employs close interlocking of separately made links tied together either by using variations of chain technique or by threading together of links. Known as jhanjhar or pajeb, the flexible variety is often further adorned with jingle bells. There is no better music to the ears of a lover than the jingling sound arising from the steps of the beloved. This has been a subject of innumerable poetic stanzas in Indian literature over several centuries.

An bangle bracelets  , bangle chain, or bangle bracelets is an ornament worn around the bangle. Barefoot bangle bracelets historically have been worn for centuries by girls and women in Egypt and Arab world especially in Bedouin and countryside and married women

in India, though in the United States both casual and more formal bangle bracelets became fashionable in the late twentieth century. While in western popular culture both younger men and women may wear casual leather bangle bracelets, they are popular among barefoot women. Formal bangle bracelets (silver, gold, beads) are common women's fashion jewelry. Banglets are an important jewellery in Indian marriages worn along with saris.