Monika Wiklund

A very nice and slightly different stone necklace made from three different kinds of stone using the RAW technique. I started working on this necklace after I made a bracelet using similar beads, and I thought that it might make a cool pattern with the black/gray snowflake obsidian and brown/black mahogany obsidian beads in lines radiating out from the middle while the shiny hematite beads are mostly used as spacers between the rows.

What creates the rounded shape of the necklace is the increasingly larger beads. The inner rows have 4 mm beads, the middle rows are made from 6 mm beads, and the outer rows are made from 8 mm beads and large snowflake obsidian chips.

Unfortunately, I made the necklace a bit too large to fit around my neck without tying a knot before locking the ends with the toggle clasp, but since my hair is long enough to cover the clasp I guess it doesn’t really matter. It took quite some time to make the necklace so I do not wish to rebuild it unless I have to. I also made a simple RAW bracelet from the leftover 4 and 6 mm beads, but I do not have any picture of it.

Here is also a picture of me when I am wearing the necklace with a brown and gray summer dress, which I think makes a pretty nice combination.

Photography by Kristian.