The color scheme of these beads came out of a tribute for someone close to me who'd passed: towards the end of his life, he wore only white or grey, of which the former is the color of mourning in India, and the latter half mourning in traditional Victorian times. This person had no particular feelings about lavender, but I added it to the mix because it too was a Victorian mourning color—a transitional color, for when one was coming out of mourning: and this was a long slow process, dealing as it did with cancer. These beads have grey trailing, instead of the black that I currently use on every other trailed abstract. They're always made with silver leaf, carrying on the grey and white theme.
Lavender mo[u]rning abstracts
I put a hundred beads in the grave, with some sort of intricate mathematical scheme, that included grey and white dotties to honor the precision of the departed, these beads (which obviously were more of my response), 9/11 beads (red, white, and blue abstracts on black), the first bead I'd made, the first bead my spouse had made, the first bead my best friend had made.
None of my other bead designs—at the time of this writing (jun05)—have this special significance. I made two batches of 9/11 beads, then retired them, because the past is past; but the memory of my beloved lives on in these beads.
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