Crimp cover vs. no crimp cover… work in progress!
When I was in Vancouver ages ago last I totally loved the look of the multiple strands of semi-precious gem beads in a bead store, and thought about making up a necklace that would echo what was hanging on the shelf.
When a local bead shop had a sale, I went in and bought multiple strands of these lovely amethyst-coloured beads, with the intention of making a multiple-strand necklace.
A few different wooden shapes (bats and spiderweb) turned into necklaces
When I made my Gothic Cathedral Pillar, I had all of the little bats cut out of the sides leftover.. and wanted to do something with them. I also dropped some of the spiderweb graphics (from my spiderweb shelf) into a laser cut project (to fill up some of those spare little spaces) in various very tiny sizes.
They scream “earrings” to me… but uh.. I don’t wear earrings – so instead the first round of projects had to be necklaces/pendants instead!
As an aside… I have a bunch left, so if any of my friends DO want earrings (maybe for a holiday gift?) let me know!
Trying on the pentagram harness / body chain
I mentioned in an earlier post that when I re-made a Killstar Pentagram belt, I had some metal pentagrams left over. Well…. I got around to making up a harness/ body chain using two of them, in time for an event I attended in October 2022.
It’s a bit long coming for a blog post… and I don’t have a ton of photos, so this is a super quick post.
The silver wire chain, once through the smallest drawplate hole, is small enough for a Pandora-style glass bead!
This is another post that I started ages ago, saved as a draft… but forgot to post!
After feeling a lot more comfortable with Viking Knit (Trichinopoly) after a few successful projects in stainless steel and copper wire, I decided to buy some silver wire. (Almost twice the price.)
I started looking at my different Viking Age bling with the hopes of updating some of my beaded jewelry to be slightly more period informed. When I was trying to narrow things down… I ended up falling down even more rabbit holes, so decided to take a step back and look at my existing metal jewelry – I started with my brooches, but then realized this post was going to be too long if I included everything, so I broke up the post into a few different sections. This post will be about pendants (that aren’t Thor’s Hammers – that will be another post!).
Silver plated Viking bling
The key description on Raymond’s Quiet Press site doesn’t indicate what find it was based on, only that it has a lion on it. However, a further search indicates that the original is at The British Museum, who describes it as:
“Copper alloy key; cast bow a beaded circular frame enclosing profiled animal; short beaded shank with sub-triangular ward; incised linear decoration.
Viking 8thC-9thC
Found/Acquired: Denmark”
In this photo, shown with the other items I bought from Raymond’s Quiet Press at the same time. I chose to have all of these silver-plated for consistency, as well as to better suit my personal aesthetic.
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