• Handmade beaded skeleton earrings, articulated black and white seed-bead skeletons on silver hooks, on cream
  • Beaded skeleton earring worn on the ear, showing full length against the jaw and neck
  • Macro detail of the beaded skull and ribcage of the skeleton earring on dark wood
  • Pair of articulated beaded skeleton earrings laid flat side by side on dark wood
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"Skeleton" beaded earrings

"Skeleton" beaded earrings

$45.00 USD
$45.00 USD
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Every bone is accounted for. Skull, ribcage, arms, legs — each one built bead by bead and joined the way real bones are joined, loosely, so the whole skeleton stirs when you do. These two do not lie still in a drawer; they turn, swing and dance at the slightest tilt of the head, which is exactly what skeletons are for.

Worked in glossy black and white glass seed beads, one bead at a time. The joints are beaded links, not glue — the head nods, the arms swing, the legs kick.

No two identical. Arrives gift-ready.

Sold as a pair. Czech glass seed beads, stainless-steel ear hooks. Recommendations: do not wet, protect from chemicals and perfume, store flat. All items are handcrafted, so measurements are approximate, colors can vary and each one is unique.

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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