I finished this piece just before we left for Nova Scotia, but didn't have time to photograph it until this weekend. It's built to showcase the round bead dangling at the bottom, a true masterwork combining raku with PMC which I bought at a bead show a couple of years ago. The large rectangular bead just above it is titanium-sprayed drusy quartz, and the tiles on either side are raku beads in green and copper (bottom rows) and abalone squares (top row). The fringe on the neck strap took forever to do. At least I didn't have to bother with a clasp; this one is a keeper which I will never ever sell, and I don't like clasps because they get caught in my back hair, so the strap is one continuous piece of free peyote from one side of the front piece to the other.
With, as I said, lots of fringe. Possibly a little too much fringe - it certainly felt like that when I was working on it!
OMG Margaret...that is STUNNING! Good thing I don't have a place to wear it, otherwise I'd spirit myself down your way and spirit it away! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Sarah (one of the Mavs)