Adobe rose is the color of the micaceous clay that forms earth and pottery and village walls here, the color of the autumn sun at dawn and dusk. Wings strings together all the colors of the clay in full flower with this strand of beads like in all the reds of the season. At the center are four giant focal rounds of Red Creek jasper, marbled like a dusty earth in shadows cast by the setting of the sun. They’re flanked on either side by paired faceted ruby rondels bisected by chips of Skystone in matrix, like a pair of turquoise windows set in the ancient walls of the village homes. Lone large Red Creek rounds appear at either end, followed by faceted ruby paired around single iron pyrite rondels, their gold-and-silver glow reflecting the flash of the mica in the local clay. Moving upwards, segments of medium-sized Dolomite rounds are bisected by very old hand-made copper barrel beads; alternating lengths of smaller fire agate and sunstone rounds flanked by yet-smaller round beads in sterling silver; and anchor segments formed of paired faceted ruby rondels in the color and shape of a rose flanked by tiny diamond-cut textured sterling silver beads. Necklace is 20″ long, excluding findings (dimensions approximate). Designed jointly by Wings and Aji. Another view shown below. Necklace coordinates with Micaceous earrings and Red Clay and Gold Dust coil bracelet. From the Earth series in Wings’s new collection, The Autumn Elementals (all pieces shown below).
Strand: Tri-ply foxtail plated with silver; sterling silver findings;
Beads: Red Creek jasper; faceted ruby; blue turquoise in matrix; iron pyrite; Dolomite;
old hand-made copper barrel beads; fire agate; sunstone; diamond-cut sterling silver
$400 + shipping, handling, and insurance
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