I'm trying to adjust to working with stones (seeing I've about broken the bank buying them) and am presented with all kinds of new challenges: How to embellish without drowning the look of a very striking stone, how to make a very strong necklace without making it heavy-looking. I'm critical of this piece - not sure I've got it just right. It was very difficult to match the snowy crystal shades & ultimately I settled for using black beads and beads close to the blueish shade just above the middle of the stone. The black & blue-grey bead embellishment is worked through a sterling silver chain, so the beads themselves bear no weight and I won't worry about breakage. I love this kind of agate and have two or three more being shipped now - one of them in particular has an astonishing pattern - and that one, I think, will be done with only black beads.
Update: Bottom tassel removed. Too frou-frou for the piece. An additional onyx bead added to the bottom instead. Live and learn, huh?
3 comments:
Bonjour LJ,
this pendant is absolutly stunning and i love so much the necklace you make to hang and embellish it. Great result.
You do gorgeous work!
Pat, Bonjour! Thanks. It's a very simple piece but I so love the stone that I couldn't frou-frou it up.
Romi, Welcome and thank you.
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