• Handmade beaded gerdan necklace with black, white and gold diamond star pattern, long fringe
  • Beaded gerdan necklace "Gerdan S" in red and black Ukrainian folk pattern displayed on a white bust
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  • Sky blue and pale yellow beaded gerdan necklace with Ukrainian folk ornament, laid out flat
  • Dark green and pearl white loomed gerdan necklace hanging to show its beaded fringe
  • Amber, gold and brown beaded gerdan necklace with geometric diamond panels, flat lay
  • Blue, navy and white beaded gerdan necklace "Gerdan S" with diamond medallions on a white background
  • White, gold and black loomed gerdan necklace with long beaded fringe, product view on white
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Beaded necklace "Gerdan S"

Beaded necklace "Gerdan S"

$35.00 USD
$35.00 USD
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Diamonds and eight-point stars run the length of this gerdan — sown fields and the guarding sun, the two wishes a pattern-maker offers first: plenty, and protection.

Loomed by hand in Ukraine, bead by bead on cotton thread, and finished with a soft fringe; nine colorways range from red-and-black to ancient gold.

No two identical. Arrives gift-ready.

Color

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 handMade individually, in small numbers
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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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