Gold & Silver Threads Preta Necklaces

絲tabane creates beautiful and luxurious accessories with pure gold and silver threads, for a casual but elegant look.

The pure gold and silver threads are made by cutting thin strips of Japanese paper stamped with gold or silver leaves. The threads are then twisted in a spiral pattern on a core thread of silk.

The gold and silver threads give the accessories a luxurious feel, and they are unexpectedly soft and light.

Material: Material: Gold & Silver threads, the chain can be adjusted to be worn as a bracelet.

Gold threads represent honor, prosperity, and nobility. Silver threads represent sincerity, chastity, and protection from evil.

Tabane is a brand of accessories using pure gold threads, born with the cooperation of various creators. The word « tabane » express the image of a bundle of pure gold thread. 

Tabane uses threads from Terashima Yasutaro Shoten, a gold and silver threads factory, founded more than a hundred years ago in Kyoto. Gold and silver threads using pure gold and pure silver have been used for a long time, for noble people’s clothes, as well as in many festivals around Japan, for Noh and Kabuki theatre costumes and Sumo wrestler’s costumes. It is for example used to decorate the curtains of the floats of the Gion Festival.