Hand-Knit Zapesnice Wrist Warmers Osijek-product for a dramatic Christmas table

for a dramatic Christmas table centerpiece

30–33 cm high

Sonja was inspired by a hair comb made during the famous Japanese Taishō art period

using a multi-day process

Hand-Knit Zapesnice Wrist Warmers Osijek-product for a dramatic Christmas tableIf your wrist is warm, the whole arm is warm. The tradition of zapesnice is told in the book Kastavtina, written in 1957 in akavski dialect by Ivo Jardas. Zapesnice are hand knit woolen cuffs made to warm your wrists from the chill of winter. These were traditionally made for young men by their girlfriends or sisters and given to them as gifts on St. Stephens Day, the day after Christmas; they were made of blue, green, or red yarn and worn in place of