Monika Wiklund

A thick and rather heavy chain necklace with large nuggets of african jade and raw tiger eye. The chain consists of patterned spades and rings, combined with a couple of larger flower contour links.

The pendant consists of one african jade nugget and one raw tiger eye nugget, and on one side of the necklace there is a combination of two african jade nuggets and one tiger eye nugget, while the other side of the necklace has two tiger eye nuggets and one african jade nugget. This, together with the positioning of the flower contours in the chain, results in an asymmetric necklace, which I think draws the attention to the details.

Closeup of one side of the necklace and part of the chain.

Photography by Kristian.

I think I have gotten hooked on using semi-precious stones for my necklaces. The more I use different kind of stones, the more I like them.

This necklace is made from round lilac stone beads, lava beads, raw rectangular nuggets of amethyst, and a polished amethyst pendant. I like the combination of the lighter purple in the lilac stone, the darker and more shifting colors of the amethyst, and the counterpoint created by the black lava stones.

I used small silver-colored bead caps for the lava beads, but the pendant is hanging from a darker metal holder that matches the simple dark metal toggle clasp. The necklace is strung on a dark bead string.

Here is a closeup of the pendant, and you can also see a little bit of the amethyst nuggets.

I think this necklace will become one of my favorites.

Photography by Kristian.

The carved carnelian flower is pretty large, and really draws attention to this necklace made of alternating red agate and carnelian nuggets on knotted string with a copper toggle clasp. The large flower is held in place by the small blue goldstone bead in the middle and by the knots behind  the flower.

Photography by Kristian.

I have made this necklace and bracelet specifically to match a white, brown, and purple skirt that I have. The minute I saw the brown and white stone beads, I knew they would be a perfect match for this skirt, and the amethyst nuggets perfected the match.

I am not sure what kind of stone the brown and white beads are, but I think they might be some kind of jaspis.

For the necklace I used one large amethyst nugget as a center piece, and smaller thinner nuggets with the holes at one end between each of the white and brown beads. Every second brown and white bead is coin shaped and the others are twisted ovals. For the hanging beads, I only used the coin-shaped beads.

The bracelet uses the same brown and white stone beads, but rather than the smaller amethyst nuggets, I used larger nuggets that are hanging from the bracelet between some of the brown and white beads.

The beads are linked with each other using eye pins, hat pins and some small rings.

Photography by Kristian.

This necklace is made from pink opals and eye pins. the opal beads are round, oval, and tooth-shaped, and they have been put together in a chain with the eye pins. It is not visible on this picture, but the clasp is a silver-colored toggle clasp decorated with leafs.

The teeth in the necklace have been selected so that the largest tooth is in the middle and the smallest are close to the clasp, and they are interspersed between the round and oval beads. Closest to the clasp there are only the round and oval beads, and no teeth.

Photography by Kristian.

This necklace is made from black agate, onyx, amethyst and sodalite beads and nuggets threaded on waxed string and knotted together. The large carved butterfly is eye-catching and serves as the center of the necklace with the trailing threads with the smaller pendants below.

At the first sight, the necklace looks all black, but at a closer look you can see the blue of the soldalite chips, the purple of the amethyst beads, and the shifting colors of the larger nuggets. The silver-colored toggle clasp is also in the shape of a butterfly to match the larger stone butterfly.

Photography by Kristian.

A dark chain necklace made from three different chains, sodalite nuggets, and with a large sodalite donut pendant.

Sodalite is a very nice semi-precious stone, and I love the mix of colors. This is a closeup of the pendant.

I have also made a matching bracelet for this necklace. The bracelet is made from the same materials, with the addition of the padlock and key toggle clasp.

Pictures by Kristian.

This necklace is made from amethyst nuggets, amethyst beads, red and blue organza ribbons, string, a copper toggle clasp, and a carved amethyst flower. The beads are positioned by the knots in the string, and the organza ribbon is threaded through the strings in places.

Picture by Kristian.

This necklace was inspired by a design contest at Sirlig Pärlor and is made to resemble the colors of autumn with soft reds, orange, and yellows mixed in with a little bit of green and darker red.

The base of the necklace are rectangular nuggets of carnelian and yellow-white alabaster with small round beads of unakite between the nuggets. Each nugget is surrounded by chips of unakite and red agate, and the necklace is made from illusion cord and has a copper toggle clasp.

In the front, the red agate coin bead is framed by a couple of carnelian and alabaster nuggets and some unakite and red agate chips and beads.

Picture by Kristian.

This necklace is one among my latest work. It is made from matte jaspis and large polished tiger-eye chips that are linked together with eye-pins, and with a large unpolished tiger-eye nugget as a pendant and with a cream-colored organza ribbon wrapped around the necklace.

The metal parts are all silver-colored, and the clasp is a simple heart-shaped toggle clasp.

Picture by Kristian.