Nova Beaded Top Handle Bag, Blue Marble Disc, Handmade

A small blue top handle bag, built from flat marbled discs hung in overlapping rows, with a band and arched handle woven from faceted crystal beads. It is an occasion bag rather than a daily one. It holds a phone, a card holder and a lipstick, and it is meant to be the thing people look at against a plain outfit. The discs are the reason to choose this one over a flat beaded bag. Each one hangs from a short stem of tiny beads rather than being stitched down, so the whole surface swings and resettles as you walk and the light moves across it. The handle and the top band are a different piece of work altogether, a dense lattice of faceted beads woven tight enough to hold the shape of the arch on its own. This listing is the blue one, which is what the photographs show and what you will receive. If you want the same idea in another colour, the Nenye bag from the same maker is the smooth marble disc version and is offered in several shades. The maker gives the size as 23cm high and 18cm wide, and lists the materials as beads, sand beads and flat marble beads. Every disc and every bead is threaded on by hand, so no two bags are packed quite alike. The discs hang free, so keep the bag away from knitwear and from jewellery that can catch them, store it in a dust bag rather than loose in a wardrobe, and wipe it with a dry soft cloth.