Multi-strand featuring red ``Antique CurliQ'' Focal

Or, Stringing in 2004

Once again I owe my partner Page the opportunity for making this necklace---she handed me the focal, proposed the basic concept and let me roam through her collections to make this delicate necklace based on a burgundy, black and silver color scheme, accented with touches of bronze, pinks and violet-blues. It took about 4 hours to string, and is the first real stringing I've done in months---since last year, most probably. What a joy to return to this wonderful way of working with beads.

So I started a similar necklace at home, using my own beads. Well...it'll get done someday. Even subtle suggestions by another person can be extraordinarily helpful for keeping a project on track.

garnet, black onyx, austrian and czech crystal, sterling and bali silver, 49 stranded .015 cable. Summer, 2004

Closeup, showing bead, which is probably 15--16mm hole to hole.

``Antique'' curliQ beads are hollow beads trailed with the curvilinear designs I've drawn in doodles for decades; rolling the bead in pixie dust and then baking soda gives the old looking finish, reminiscent of Roman glass.

Closeup, showing fringe, strung in typical ``small bead'' (under 6mm) stringing sequences.

This piece was shot outside in dappled afternoon light, without a tripod, which is why the focus is a bit iffy. Coolpix 990.

file originally created 17sep04; link to squid added 18apr06