Earrings

Handmade earrings in two families: loomed glass seed bead designs with Ukrainian folk patterns, and playful polymer clay miniatures — from fruit and flowers to donuts and sushi. Lightweight, durable, and made one pair at a time.

Long beaded fringe earrings

The long ones come first here on purpose. Our long beaded earrings are strung strand by strand into a fringe that swings shoulder-length and settles the moment you stop — rain in color, as one of them is described. Extra-long fringe in a dozen colorways, dusk-pink and plum ombrés, poppies and blossoms, the black-and-gold “Day and Night” pair with its sun and moon. Despite the length they are light: glass seed beads on nylon thread, stainless-steel hooks, nothing cast or glued.

Below them, the shorter stories — brick-stitch skulls, bats and black cats for the night side, Ukrainian folk patterns in miniature, and the polymer-clay fruit and sweets. All handmade in Ukraine, one pair at a time; see the gift guide if you’re choosing for someone.

Handmade gerdan necklace of white glass seed beads with geometric folk tulip medallions in red, green and yellow

Field note № 2

How to read a pattern

Every geometric motif in Ukrainian beadwork means something — diamonds for sown fields, zigzags for water, eight-pointed stars for the sun. Once you can read them, every necklace becomes a sentence.

Read the field note