Sunday, December 9, 2012

Anglo-Saxon Inspired Beads (6-7th century)

The decorative patterns on the beads below are documentable, however, some of the color combinations are not documentable. I wanted to make a series of beads in my heraldic colors. 

More details can be found in my documentation Recreating a 6th century Frankish/Anglo-Saxon Bead



 




Title: Recreating a 6th century Frankish/Anglo-Saxon Bead

Link  to  Documentation: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6FxAc78rj92VzJnY2pTaWpLbEk

Purpose: The goal of this project is to recreate a common early medieval Frankish bead found
both on the European continent and in Anglo-Saxon England. The original inspiration for this
project is the bead pictured above, but Appendix A contains multiple other images of similar
beads from both England and the continent. This style of bead was chosen because of its simple,
yet striking color combination, the interesting trade and cultural relationship it represents, and
because its creation required a specific skill set (working with stringer) that I was eager to learn.

Images: (Top) Bead from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (Bottom) Reproduction bead