Around the curve
North Carolina’s Elizabeth Hamilton has restrung this necklace three times already in her attempt to find just the right look for her newest collection. “Brass beads, black cord, chunky brass chain?” she asks.
“I may still tear it apart and try again,” Elizabeth admits.
Here she combines vintage round painted cork beads with tube beads that she made after a surface treatment class with Claire Maunsell. She calls it her Nothing New collection even though her treatment gives the piece a very new and trendy look.
Curved tube beads are easy to create in polymer and this 3-strand approach is a new one to my eye.