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Beaded necklace with skulls

Beaded necklace with skulls

$54.99 USD
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Not every page of the story is embroidered with flowers. This one is written in black and white — a marching geometry of small skulls, worn the way the old patterns were always worn: without fear.

A bead-crochet necklace made by hand in Ukraine, glass beads worked round on cotton thread into a supple cord with a bold graphic rhythm.

One of one. Arrives gift-ready.

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 one
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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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