Nenye Beaded Top Handle Bag - Handmade Marble & Crystal

A small top handle bag built from overlapping marble effect discs, with a top band and twin handles woven from faceted crystal beads. Seven colours, handmade bead by bead. There are two different pieces of work in this bag. The body is built from flat marble effect discs, each one threaded on individually and overlapped in rows like scales, so the surface shifts and catches light as the bag moves. The top band and both handles are something else entirely: a lattice woven from faceted crystal beads, clear enough to see through. It is small, and deliberately so. It holds a phone, a card holder, a lipstick and a key, which is the entire job of an occasion bag. This is not a bag for carrying things. It is a bag for being seen with. Seven colourways: pink, blue, green, red, brown, chocolate and white. The pink is the one photographed. White is what people order for weddings, and chocolate and brown are the two that work across a year rather than for one outfit. Against a plain dress it becomes the entire accessory. Against a print it fights, so choose one or the other. For its size it photographs far better than it has any right to, which is why it tends to end up in more pictures than the outfit it was bought to go with. Every disc and every bead is threaded on by hand, row by row. A bag this size runs to several hundred of them, which is why each one takes what it takes. Care: beaded bags snag on rough fabric and on jewellery, so keep it clear of knitwear and store it in a dust bag rather than loose in a wardrobe. Wipe it down with a dry soft cloth and never soak it.