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One is a teardrop side-drilled bead and the other is a smooth chunk with no drilling. I used smaller beads (garnet, onyx, hematite and others) to decorate. These are mostly freeform, I can’t say what exactly inspired me, I just went on with the wrapping until I was out of wire.
Available in my Etsy shop: [pink one] and [clear one].
I couldn’t quite catch all the beauty of this stone on a photo, but I promise you, it shines on the whole surface, and the colours are a smooth gradient from yellowish green to almost turquoise. One of the most beautiful stones I’ve worked with.
Would you believe I spent approximately the same amount of time attaching the tiny beads as doing the actual wire wrapping? The beads are: various type of turquoise (stabilized mostly), lapis lazuli, various kinds of jasper, copper and tiger’s eye. I like how the main stone seems framed in the wire.
I ordered a bag of copper beads, that looked like mechanism parts on a photo. I wasn’t wrong, they really look like mechanism parts :) I wish I had bought some more, because I’m running out of them and this seller doesn’t have them anymore. In fact I couldn’t find anything similar on the whole Ebay.
Actually these earrings were the first steampunk items that I’ve made. All copper, no brass. I wrap the elements around with wire, sometimes along with a round glass bead. There are several variations. I love the outcome, and I kept one pair for myself. They do have a both steampunk and a gothic feeling.
This was also my first attempt at the Dwemer jewellery idea, that I’ve described in my previous post.
Some of them are available on Etsy, the rest has been sold: dark red, brown I, brown II, and porcelain (there will be a few pairs more soon)
