Folk decorations: Necklace (stand-up collar) Neck decoration

Here is a cotton stand-up collar. Traditionally used with a pearl (beaded).
Neck decoration is made by hand based on ethnographic descriptions and photos. It was used mainly in the XVIII-XIX centuries in the Arkhangelsk region of the Pinezhsky district, complete with a pearl.

"The costume was completed with neck jewelry: "necklace" and "pearl". « Perlyshko" ("perlo") – in the form of a narrow strip of linen fabric, embroidered with river pearls or beads and decorated with colored glasses that imitated precious stones– sapphires, emeralds, rubies. « Perlyshko " was worn over a wide white stand-up collar with small folds at the edges ("necklaces"), it tightly closed the girl's neck and fastened at the back.."