• Handmade beaded rope necklace "White Queen" with white beads and an ornate silver-tone filigree pendant with dangles.
  • Handmade white beaded necklace with large glossy beads, ornate silver-tone filigree pendant and teardrop dangles, worn on a model at the collarbone
  • Close-up of a handmade white bead necklace on dark wood, showing the silver filigree centerpiece with white teardrop dangles and beaded rope
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Necklace "White queen"

Necklace "White queen"

$55.00 USD
$55.00 USD
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The White Queen holds her court in light — for white, in the old color language, is the color of light itself, and here it runs unbroken from shoulder to shoulder before gathering at an ornate crown of silver filigree.

Beaded by hand in Ukraine and shaped over memory wire so the strand keeps its poise, the pendant trailing a fine rain of silver-tone dangles.

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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