Beaded "Laces Flowers" necklace
Beaded "Laces Flowers" necklace
Here the ruzha blooms in openwork — roses, the pattern language's word for love and courtship, caught in panels of beaded lace with strands draping below. Choose white for light, black for fertile earth, or red for celebration.
Strung with needle and thread in Ukraine into flowered lacework, from beads on cotton-poly thread with stainless steel accessories.
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.