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This is a necklace I completed a few days ago, that was planned some ten years ago, exploiting Tairona carnelian beads from the Naomi Lindstrom Collection. It's a shame Naomi didn't live long enough to see the necklace realized. The technique (as with most of my designs) combines crown-knotting, wrapping, and macramé. The combination of techniques allows me to place a round braid (crowning) between beads, to form a flexible separation; and wrapping—which is what actually holds many of the beads in-place (since they mostly have biconical perforations with enlarged apertures). The beads I like to think of as being shaped "like anchors" are said to represent frogs. Others look phallic or like flies. The oblate carnelian beads are also Tairona. Jamey All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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