• Handmade beaded "Asymmetry" necklace with black and white geometric panels and cascading fringe strands
  • Asymmetric beaded necklace in white, copper and black with ornament panel on one side, on a display bust
  • Handmade black and white beaded gerdan necklace with geometric Ukrainian pattern and layered strands, worn by a model in a cream linen dress.
  • Close-up flat lay of a handmade beaded necklace with black, white, and silver seed bead strands and geometric woven panels on dark rustic wood.
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Necklace "Asymmetry"

Necklace "Asymmetry"

$49.99 USD
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A pattern that refuses to match itself. One side carries an ornamented panel, the other lets its fringe fall free — and the necklace is better for the argument. Balance, the old patterns suggest, is not the same as symmetry.

Beaded by hand in Ukraine from beads on cotton thread, in black-and-white or bronze-and-white.

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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