Saturday 26 July 2014

New Designs from the Banna Beadbox

Banna creations has a large variety of bead box jewellery, all of which is hand made tribal jewellery. The items are beautiful and unique in their own form and consist of a variety of colours and styles of earrings and necklaces.

The earring collection is vast and contains a wide variety of colours. A number of them  are gold or silver and have beads hanging from them in different colours and styles. Others consist of drops in a variety of colours as the main content of the earrings, with patterned detail on them or other details such as beads added below the drops - such as the coral and amethyst drops as described below.

Some that Stand out are the hooped earrings with colours hanging from them - such as the hoops in purple and blue as described below: 

Water Crystals in white

These are a beautiful pair of earrings  and transparent white in colour. They feature a bead, above and below the crystals, which adds detail to the item. These simple earrings would be suitable for all occasions and events.

Hoops in purple and blue

As noted above, many of the items follow a similar design to this item. This is a beautiful  and unique design, which will compliment your outfits well. The use of different colours for different designs of hoops will not leave you short on choice.

These hoops have a silver twist overlaying the main hoop, with 7 drops hanging from them featuring beads in blue and crystals in purple.


Coral and amethyst drops

The coral drop earrings features indented detail and patterns, this includes flowers and leaves. The amethyst beads above and below the coral drop add a sense of sophistication and catch the eyes when reflecting the light. These earrings are an eye catching piece


Rose studs - Mauve

These are a simple, yet beautiful pair of earrings. Particular attention to detail has been paid here to create this rose, which makes it look really due to the high quality.


Cascade in blue - double ring

Cascade is a waterfall. This is well represented by these earrings, with the double ring representing the stages off the waterfall, falling from one step to another and getting typically wider the further down the waterfall. The contrasting beads of light blue and dark blue clearly represent the water and it's different colours, as seen in a waterfall. These earrings are a very unique pair and have a great appeal to the eye.


Drops of blue

These are an appealing pair of earrings, with a silver tear dropped body and sea blue crystals around the edge of the body. These are once again a very unique pair of earrings that appeal to the eye





Black and red crystals with pearl drops

Personally I love these earrings, the red crystals are subtle amongst the black and they sparkle when reflecting the light. The bigger pearl drops contrast well with the black and red colour and add extra detail to the design making them even more beautiful to look at.


White beauty and gold

Two white crystals separated by gold detail. The lower crystal features patterned detail to make it look like a leaf, whereas the upper crystal is plain, with a white centre. 

In addition necklaces are also available. These, once again come in a variety of colours and designs. The majority feature crystals or beads and come with or without pendants. Pendants are also available separately if you feel you would like one with your necklace.


Blue - Green round pendant

This is a personal favourite. Larger purple and green crystals are mixed upon the purple crystals with a few green crystals too, silver beads are also used throughout,which adds appeals to the necklace. The pendent is round and features beautiful detail which catches the eye,  this is in the form or spirals to form a circle from a centre point and subtle hearts around the edge.


Green and red Crystal with brown Ceramic beads

Green Crystals form the majority off this necklace with a bigger red Crystal placed on either side, near the top and at the bottom. The brown Ceramic beads add further detail to the design and feature darker lines vertically around the beads.


Red Crystals with blue ceramic beads

This is one of the simpler necklaces with red crystals separated by a silver bead after every 7th red crystal. Towards the bottom of the necklace there are blue ceramic beads, equally spaced out. These feature lighter blue patterns, which add detail to the necklace and catch the eye.


Pink and pearl necklace

This is a simple and sophisticated necklace, predominately with pink beads. This necklace also features pearl and silver beads which add appeal and detail to the item.


Doughnut pendent and black bead chain

This beautiful detailed necklace features black beads with red tear drop shaped beads interlinked throughout. Silver beads also add and create appeal for this beautiful necklace and contrast well with the doughnut pendent. The pendent consists of a small detailed circle in the centre, surrounded by a number of circles, each getting bigger in size. Two of the layers lay above the rest with bigger detail than the surrounding layers.

The necklaces and earrings available at  Banna Creations’ Monsoon Beadbox Collection  are all of high quality and hand-made. They consist of a variety of colours and styles, which have been carefully put together to create a range of jewellery that will meet the needs of many through the careful thought and creativity taken during production, which ensures the beauty of these products. 






Friday 25 July 2014

Launching !!! A Special Range of festive Dupatta's...

The new range of cotton silk dupattas - Chanderi and hand woven cotton silk  from Banna Creations are produced to the highest quality and are hand-made by Artisans throughout India. In addition to being the hand work of artisans from various parts of the country, these dupatta's are also worked on and finished by the ladies from our sustaible livelihoods programme they work on the finishing of these Dupattas with tassels, hemming and final completion. 

 The high quality, thought and care taken into each individual Dupatta always assures each is produced to the finest standard. This is done through sourcing fabrics, stitching and designs from a diverse range of places around India.

All designs are Banna's own with the dyeing, block printing and embroidery being done by our artisan partners. 

The ladies from the sustainable livelihoods programme have created tassels of their choice to match the Dupattas. Therefore a variety of size, colours and innovative designs have been used to finish the Dupattas, adding an extra appeal to them.

Some highlights of the collection:


This beautiful cotton silk Dupatta features the 7 colours of the rainbow, and is very unique and eye catching. Each colour section is skilfully joined together to look like 1. The circular detail,  which is shown within the perimeter of each colour, adds simple detail and compliments the Dupatta and adds a uniqueness and appeal to the design. The long tassels in alternative light blue, purple and navy blue with gold detail at the top add a simple additional appeal to the Dupatta. The tassels contrasts well with the colours of the rainbow, in order to not overpower the Dupatta. This Dupatta would compliment a simple and plain outfit.

In contrast to the above Dupatta, this white Chanderi cotton silk Dupatta is very light and would compliment a colourful or simple outfit to provide a beautiful finish to any outfit. It features a subtle gold detail border and Embroidered circles which may represent eternity and  diversity  through the variety of colours used, which link together from one to another, representing that everything continues: green, blue, yellow and red. In addition to this the shorter tassels in blue, red and yellow contrast well with the coloured stitched circles, white material and the gold border and bring a greater appeal and create a unique elegant and simple Dupatta.

This beautiful Chanderi cotton silk Dupatta displays a gentle, relaxing contrast from blue to green. The blue  represents the sea, and the green represents the land. The gold leaf shaped detail adds a sense of life is anywhere - in the sea or on the land. In addition to this, this Dupatta features a gold border around the edge and gold tassels. These delicate tassels have a bead inserted at the top. There is a high density of these tassels along the Dupatta  to give it a flowing effect. 

Another Dupatta features the same idea of the contrast and change in colour progressively throughout the Dupatta. This changes from light green to dark green, once again with a gold border. The tassels match the darkest shade of green and compliment the Dupatta well, especially against the lightest shade of green. Gold detail is also added to the top of the tassels, which adds an extra aspect of creativity and catch the eye.


This Dupatta in Chanderi Cotton silk  is darker than the others and features a black, red, black pattern, a gold border is once again seen and adds appeal and detail to this Dupatta. The stages between the sections are sudden, but not straight lines, which may represent that things change at different times for different people;  This Dupatta also suggests that although there may be dark and bad occurrences in life, if you have hope and love things will improve. The black tassels contrast well with the design.


This is an eye catching beautiful Dupatta and stands out amongst others. There is a contrast in patterns between purple and mustard with a smudged effect at the boundaries of the mustard section. The Mustard features a gold sparkled pattern overlaying the base, with detailed patterns representing flowers and leaves. Again there is a gold border and the tassels here feature the colours gold and purple in alternative groups of 3 adding an extra appeal.



This magenta  coloured Dupatta is at first glance simple, but a look closer reveals green, yellow and blue embroidery detail, which contrasts well with the magenta background. The green detail forms the leaves and plant for the yellow flower to be placed above. The embroidery used is Kamal Kadai... Just the right number of flowers with the right amount of Appeal 


The subtle change in colour from blue to green creates a simple Dupatta and is difficult to see this change at first. However, the tassels on this Dupatta make the contrast more noticeable, due to their light blue colour which contrasts with, and emphasises the colours used. Simple and elegant Chanderi Cotton Silk 


This orange to pink  Dupatta is once again beautiful and is emphasised by the gold tassels and gold details. The gold details features the gold border and what is a bold Gold block print on the orange section. The change to Pink  is only at the edges if the Dupatta, near to the gold tassels. This adds a simple extra detail to the Dupatta and is effective to create an extra appeal to the design.


Here is another Rainbow themed Dupatta in Cotton Silk with Each colour Patch seamlessly coming together. .. 
The Kantha embroidery is done in Self colours to add that touch of subtlety and the central strip has a block kantha motif .... 


The Collection also features a very special set of Kantha embroidered chanderi Cotton silk dupattas. The light and subtle white piece with bold blue peacock embroidered using kantha techniques
The lovely Orange and the bold black. The orange piece has a closely embroidered Border design and the black one has a bold flaming flower embroidered on either side ! 



All pieces from this collection will be available for purchase online on our website from monday the 28th of July. Also can be purchased directly at our upcoming exhibition on the 1st and 2nd of August. 
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