• Handmade beaded necklace "Nadiia" with loomed black and white diamond pattern medallions and beaded fringe.
  • Model wearing a handmade black and white beaded gerdan necklace with ornamental strap pattern and layered graphite strands with pearls.
  • Close-up of a handmade black, white and silver beaded gerdan on dark wood, showing the woven ornament and multi-strand pearl fringe.
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Necklace "Nadiia"

Necklace "Nadiia"

$85.00 USD
$85.00 USD
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Nadiia means hope in Ukrainian, and this necklace argues for it in the plainest colors there are: white for light, black for the fertile earth that keeps every promise made to it. Diamond medallions carry the wish down into a whispering fringe.

Loomed by hand in Ukraine, bead by bead on cotton thread.

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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