• Handmade beaded statement collar with black leaves, red berries and an oval black natural stone cabochon, on a white bust
  • Black stone berries collar worn, resting on the collarbones
  • Macro detail of the black natural stone cabochon in its beaded bezel with red berries and black leaves
  • Black stone collar laid flat from above showing every beaded leaf and berry cluster
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Necklace "Obsidian"

Necklace "Obsidian"

$195.00 USD
$195.00 USD
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Deep in the blackest winter hedge, the berries still hang on. This collar is that hedge after dark: sculptural black beaded leaves, sprays of jet and iridescent green, and clusters of garnet-red glass berries caught among them — all gathered around a deep oval of polished black natural stone, the night's own mirror, held in a beaded bezel.

Every leaf is woven separately and shaped by hand; the berries are strung one by one. It sits on the collarbones like something grown rather than made.

One of a kind — this is the only one. Arrives gift-ready.

Czech glass seed and bugle beads, glass berry beads, black natural stone cabochon, stainless clasp. Recommendations: do not wet, protect from chemicals and perfume, store flat. Handcrafted; measurements are approximate.

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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