One of my favorite customers (and a student of mine too) asked for a necklace that would match the super chunky Byzantine bracelet she’d gotten before Christmas.
I told her a necklace that size might snap her neck, but we could try something that graduated from the big chunky down to a smaller chain for the back. She thought that would work!
On Saturday, I got about half of the necklace done before she stopped into the studio. She loved the size, and I was able to finish up the weaving by the end of the day.
Just getting started. This is how big her bracelet is – 16g 1/4″ rings.
All the rings, all the sizes. I ended up using 5 different sizes of copper rings to graduate
from the 16g 1/4″ down to 20g 5/32″
Weaving’s done. I had some 18g 3/16″ rings that were previously patina’d and they kind of stuck out.
After a bath in the pickle, all the rings are the same color! She wants this patina’d DARK, so next up will be a bath in LOS and hours of tumbling. I’ll post the finished product after she gets it!