Choker is a small decoration in the form of a necklace, tightly adjacent to the neck, in appearance resembling a collar of thin lace. Although his name is translated from the English - "scenario", the decoration does not cause any discomfort of its owner, but on the contrary, emphasizes the beauty and elegance of the neck.
For the first time, Chokers appeared among the American Indians, they had a mystical destination - exile and protection against evil spirits. For their manufacture, the Indians used natural materials. Then the chokers became known to both Europe, where they gained their fame. But, this confession this jewelry received in the early 1990s. The lace decoration was so popular that he could be seen on the neck of adolescent girls, and on solid mature ladies. They wore a chocer complete with bracelets that were performed in the same weaving technique.
Since 2014, Cheker again returned to fashion. Fashionable designers for its manufacture use a variety of materials. It is lace, velvet, satin, and even gold and precious stones. But, the traditional material for the manufacture of choke is the line, threads, wire with the addition of elements from beads, glass, ribbons, pearls or metal suspension and pendants.
Such a stylish jewelry on the neck is easy to do on your own from the girlfriend. There are a variety of weaving techniques for different types of materials.
Choker do it yourself from headphones
For the manufacture of an elegant lace choke, the most banal and usual things that you have at home are suitable. Excellent material for choke - non-working headphones. Depending on what kind of decoration you want to get: a thin openwork or massive, choose the thickness of the headphone wire. You can use both black headphones to get a monophonic decoration and combine several colors. Necklace can be decorated with pendant or beads. Consider the technique of weaving Chokera.
Necessary materials: book, clamp and 2 wires from headphones.
- Cook the book, fix 2 wires by clamp. Web the end of the left wire and put it on the right, then the right wire is carried out under the bottom so that the loop is formed. Now it remains to tighten it to the base.
- We repeat the action on the left side. We take the end of the left wire, we throw on the right, and the end of the left will spend under the bottom for the formation of the loop. Now the loop is unfolded in the opposite direction. The loops should not be tight or very air. The node must be soft.
- Continue weaving the looping alternately on the right and left side, you will have an openwork elegant chain of looping. You can add a pendant to the center of the necklace, the pendant, the original bead, which will give the decoration of the highlight. The length of the chain is determined by the circumference of your neck. We take a chain to the desired length. Cut the extra ends and burn them with a lighter. The ends of the cord, which were fixed by the clip, burn the lighter too.
- The last stage in the work is to make a lock for jewelry. Choker is ready!
What to wear a chocer?
CHECR - decoration that can be combined with any clothing, different style. Exception - sweaters or turtlenecks with neck and strict business suits, here the necklace will be inappropriate.
The decoration looks great with shirts, t-shirts, jerseys in combination with jeans, as well as with light sunders, open dresses and blouses. For evening exit, necklaces are suitable made of expensive materials or tapes and velvet.
It is worth remembering that Choker is not all coming, for example, girls with a short and complete neck. The necklace will take up your image and make the neck short. In other cases, Choker is universal. With it, you can create both a feminine and seductive image, and more "brutal" with elements of rock or gothic.
Choker is a stylish, bold decoration that will definitely allocate its owner from the crowd and will attract attention to the grace of the neck and the zone of the neckline.