Beaded bracelet Snake
Beaded bracelet Snake
A serpent that asks only to coil around your wrist. Stripes of glass beads ripple down its body to a gleaming metal snake's head, in colorways from red-black-white to green and gold.
Bead-crochet, made by hand in Ukraine — beads circling round and round on cotton thread until the cord moves like the creature it portrays.
Length 7 in.
No two identical. Arrives gift-ready.
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The tale of this motif
The tale of this motif
Folk motifs carry meanings older than writing — poppies guard the home, wheat calls the harvest, birds watch over travellers.
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Field note № 7
Beads for the night side
Black glass has a long memory: Victorian mourning jewellery was strung from it, and a black-ground gerdan makes every red burn brighter. Our skulls, bats and serpents are beaded exactly like the poppies — the same seed beads, the same hands in Ukraine — only the motifs have changed.