A couple of years ago, on a short trip to Brussels, I stumbled upon a small shop selling a collection of hand-made artefacts from central Africa - mostly ornaments and simple every-day apparel. I found most of them really beautiful - and bought a fan-out necklace made of copper for my daughter Kynthia (who seemed to enjoy it a lot : )
The idea to copy the design of that necklace into a low-cost "jewel” of my own making has been haunting me, since. Time has ripened and, voilà, a first attempt, drafted on the violet/purple key.
The rods are made of tinned copper wire: forty-seven (I think) in total, ranging linearly in length from 20 to 90 mm. Each rod carries a small glass bead and a larger one of tin-plated brass.
The latter is soldered on the rod with a tiny drop of the common tin-lead alloy used in electronics – and serves as a stopper. The upper end of each rod is turned into a loop (or eye) and stringed on a waxed polyester thread. Overhang knots are tied between adjacent rod eyes, to keep them regularly spaced apart.
The idea to copy the design of that necklace into a low-cost "jewel” of my own making has been haunting me, since. Time has ripened and, voilà, a first attempt, drafted on the violet/purple key.
The rods are made of tinned copper wire: forty-seven (I think) in total, ranging linearly in length from 20 to 90 mm. Each rod carries a small glass bead and a larger one of tin-plated brass.
The latter is soldered on the rod with a tiny drop of the common tin-lead alloy used in electronics – and serves as a stopper. The upper end of each rod is turned into a loop (or eye) and stringed on a waxed polyester thread. Overhang knots are tied between adjacent rod eyes, to keep them regularly spaced apart.
