Wuthering Heights: How a Brontë treasure from Yorkshire inspired film star Margot Robbie's red carpet dress

The original bracelet, at Haworth's Brontë Parsonage Museum, is believed to have been woven from the hair of two of the literary sisters as a mourning band 175-years ago.

Even as the hair jewellery holds memory and eternity, say designers, the dress is a symbol of Emily Brontë’s immortal story.

And it was fourth-generation family manufacturer Wyedean Weaving, also of Haworth, who were tasked with recreating the bracelet design.

"The Brontës and the Brontë story is Haworth, and so is Wyedean," said managing director Robin Wright, as those threads of the past carry through. "That adds significance.”

Wyedean is based in the village where the Bronte family lived and famously wrote their novels. Mr Wright’s own three-times great-grandfather is thought to have been drawing-master to the sisters.

Now the bracelet is one of the family's most intimate surviving artefacts. It was owned by Charlotte Brontë, and is believed to be woven of the hair of her sisters Emily and Anne.

Crafters at Wyedean, tasked with the crafting of the replica for the red carpet, are based in the very mill where Brontë brother Branson once worked.

With just four weeks' brief the team of technicians had pulled out all the stops to deliver the bracelet in time for Thursday night's premiere.

It took some 40 hours of production and 12 different trials using off-the-shelf yarns, silks, and synthetic fibres, along with some 250,000 metres of thread. Now the finished piece has three shades and 280 braided threads, using a polyester-cotton blend to replicate the texture.

Matching the colours and textures was a "real challenge", said Mr Wright. Re-creating its rare diagonal plait and natural colour took the most time, he added, with each shade shifting in the changing light.

The garnets in the centre, with their gold settings, were made by McCarty London to mirror the original.

And the bracelet served as inspiration for Margot Robbie’s dress design, with a tulle corseted creation adorned with Victorian mourning hair flowers, braids and antique brooches.

It was popular in the Victorian era to craft hair jewellery such as this. The original bracelet, intricate and delicate, will be on display at the Brontë Parsonage Museum from next week.

Rebecca Yorke, museum director, said: “The museum holds the world’s largest collections of Brontë manuscripts, clothing and personal possessions and we take our responsibility as custodians extremely seriously. This event has offered us an unprecedented opportunity to share an item from our collection and tell its story with a global and contemporary audience."

The new Wuthering Heights film will be released Friday, February 13.