Pearl and rhinestone bridal hair vine — 40 cm

Plated wire strung by hand, bead by bead — imitation pearls and faceted glass rhinestones over 40 cm, end loops included. The machta winds it round the chignon, threads it into a side braid, or lays it as a band behind the fringe; the wire bends by hand, so the same piece comes back out for a second change of dress the same night. It belongs to the white dress and the evening dress, not to the karakou or the chedda — and it is neither a taj, which is rigid, nor a khit errouh, which sits on the forehead. Bring hair pins: it holds through a loop at each end.