Margot Robbie wears replica Bronte bracelet

An A-list actor has delighted a Yorkshire business after commissioning a replica of the 175-year-old mourning bracelet owned and worn by author Charlotte Brontë.

Margot Robbie, who plays Cathy Earnshaw in the soon-to-be-released adaptation of Bronte's sister Emily's novel Wuthering Heights, wore the woven bracelet to the film's premiere on Thursday.

Tasked with replicating the piece, Haworth-based Wyedean Weaving carefully studied the bracelet, which is kept at the Brontë Parsonage Museum and contains locks of hair.

"When she saw it, I was told she was thrilled at how close we got to the original," managing director Robin Wright said of Robbie.

The opportunity came about when the Australian actor's stylist Andrew Mukamal approached the museum, after looking for inspiration from their online artefact collection.

The original version was deemed to be too delicate to be loaned out and worn, so the stylist asked if the museum knew of anyone who could create an imitation for Robbie.

Wright added: "Luckily the director of the museum, Rebecca Yorke, had visited Wyedean as part of our 60th anniversary celebrations and knew our capability in weaving and ceremonial items manufacture, so came to us straight away."

The original bracelet that belonged to Charlotte Brontë is thought to be made of hair from her sisters Emily and Anne.

It is typical of 1800s mourning jewellery, which often features woven human hair, black jet, garnet or onyx set in gold or silver.

Rebecca Yorke, from the museum, said: "Andrew Mukamal, the designer, he's a historian, he likes looking at context and he knew that Victorian mourning jewellery was a thing.

"There's also a bit of a hair motif in the film, so we'd been collaborating with him on what might be possible.

"We came up with the idea that he might make this outfit inspired by this object in our collection and to make sure that it was safe and not put at any risk, we put him in contact with Wyedean Weaving and they created an absolutely perfect replica."

Yorke added that Robbie had been shown the original in December and had "loved and admired" the bracelet and giving her the opportunity to wear it in a safe way had been "the best of both worlds".

"It gives us a unique moment to put our collection in front of a global contemporary audience," she said.

"Hopefully because of the film and the book, people around the world know of the Brontes, but they might not know about all the things that we have in our collection, which is the largest in the world."

The museum team were invited along to Thursday's premiere, where Robbie attended with co-star Jacob Elordi and showed off the statement piece.

It occupies the parsonage in Haworth, near Bradford, where the sisters grew up with their father.

"Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, all these magazines that you'd never imagine you'd be in are covering it," Wright added.

"It's rather strange but surreal almost. We normally deal with generals and colonels but now we're dealing with Hollywood stars, it's a completely different world for us."

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