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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10652409, member: 2844&quot;]I have shoulderlength hair, but the Indonesians have a solution for that too.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> I have a sanggul (the large hairbun) with regular hairpins inside, so I can pin it to my hair. But I usually use one of those elastic bands with fake curls, that I put around the small bun I can make with my hair. No fuss, and it creates enough mass to wear fancy hair jewellery.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some of my Indonesian hair jewellery. These are all late 19th-early 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>East Java. The tops are gilded silver decorated with filigree and granules, set with quartz and coral glass:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]532841[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The back, the metal is folded and crimped over the top:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]532842[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Below a set of &quot;kembang goyang&quot; or &quot;waving flowers&quot; hair jewellery from Madura (group of islands north of East Java).</p><p>The goldleaf flowers are attached to springs, so they move whenever the wearer moves their head. In European jewellery terms this technique is called &#039;en tremblant&#039;.</p><p>These are bigger than they look on the photo, the pin of the tiara goes along the back of my head from top to bottom.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]532843[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The back of the tiara, so you can see the springs. The single flower pins have the same springs, also on the leaves:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]532844[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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