• Handmade loomed gerdan necklace with red poppy motif on black glass seed beads, with matching bracelet
  • White loomed gerdan necklace with poppy pattern measured with a tape, flat lay on white
  • Black colorway of the poppy gerdan necklace with matching loomed beaded bracelet on white
  • Black beaded gerdan Poppy necklace and bracelet with a yellow tape measure showing length
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Beaded necklace "Gerdan" Poppy on white/black background

Beaded necklace "Gerdan" Poppy on white/black background

$84.99 USD
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Poppies burn brightest against a quiet ground. Choose the white of light or the black of fertile earth — either way the flower keeps its oldest work: guarding the house, holding remembrance, staying red as summer.

Loomed by hand in Ukraine, bead by bead, from glass seed beads on cotton thread, in the gerdan tradition that once told a village who you were.

No two identical. Arrives gift-ready.

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The tale of this motif

Folk motifs carry meanings older than writing — poppies guard the home, wheat calls the harvest, birds watch over travellers.

Handmade in Ukraine Glass seed beads, worked by handOne of a small run · 2 available
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Pair of black and white beaded skull earrings on cream

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.

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