Gift Basket Beads

Beads for the EK Gift Basket.

Beads are based on period designs, and pictures of those period beads are included below.

Modern Earings

Created using a twisted stringer of clear and white (to get the latticino effect) and with a red stripe laid on top of the white. You wouldn't think it, but adding that little red stripe made creating the stringer MUCH more difficult. There were several attempts before I was satisfied.

Frankish Pendant

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pendant

Date:

500–600

Geography:

Made in Niederbreisig, Germany

Culture:

Frankish

Medium:

Copper alloy (rings & cap), glass (beads)

Dimensions:

Overall: 7 5/16 x 1 3/16 x 3/8 in. (18.5 x 3 x 1 cm)

Classification:

Metalwork-Copper alloy

Credit Line:

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Accession Number:

17.193.52

String of Beads

This was a chance for me to design a small string of beads to give as a gift. I used several bead designs from the Mucking Typology project I did. I tried to make things symmetrical (so it would be pleasing to the modern, or really, my eye). However, by using different designs for each polychrome bead, I tried to keep a bit of the randomness of the period necklaces I have recreated before. I like the result, expect for the fact that the colors I chose don't seem to "pop" and it is not as vibrant as some period necklaces are. I think that is because I used "cool" colors and black as the base color for the polychrome beads.

Modern Earrings- based on a historic source

Earrings made for an SCA gift basket.

The designs were inspired by/ based on images of Irish and Scandanavian beads found in Birte Brugmann's book Glass from Anglo-Saxon graves. These two beads were chosen because they matched the heraldic colors of the recipient.