I have to say, I'm not particularly a fan of button jewellery per se, but the shape/orientation got me thinking. I think what throws me is that buttons have two holes - and I am a fan of symmetry.
Here is what I spent about four hours on today, stringing, taking apart, restringing, taking apart, respacing and restringing...
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| 21 buttons, hemp & seed beads, first idea... but ixnay on the all-matte black |
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| When I thought I would have lots of beads, I thought about doubling them up, still with the symmetry and bean -- I mean -- bead counting, but that twist is interesting |
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| Because I'm limited to the length of hemp, and my customer is quite tall and slender, I decided to go to a single long strand that could be worn this way or doubled, but I saw I would have to space the beads out much more or I was going to run out of green buttons before the string ran out. |
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| Beautiful colours, eh!? |
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| Finished necklace |
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| Pretty true colours, photo taken outside |
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| Beaded loop closing around end button |
The funny thing is, I when I sat down here to format the photos, I took a quick look at Pinterest -- and saw this at the top of the page:
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| Ifa priest's necklace "odigba ifa" from the Yoruba people of Nigeria |
This is spectacular compared to my initial two-strand wimpy effort. But probably similar beads -- the coloured beads I've used are handmade, recycled glass beads, albeit from Indonesia, and the matte black filler beads are Czech 6/0 seed beads. Since my necklace is 60 inches long and I hadn't really cleared with my customer exactly how much she wanted to spend on the "extras", I had to play it safe and stick to a single strand of beads.
Thanks for looking!
1 comment:
That's not my cup of tea, but I have to say it's growing on me. I think it's pretty unique and will probably attract attention. Please let us know how she likes it.
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