When Daeng sees shells on the beach, she always thinks about how to make beautiful wearable art from them. One day while at a weekend market in Bangkok, she saw beautiful shells and got the idea to make a brooch by beading around a shell. After requests from friends, she turned the brooch concept into a pendant, here strung from a necklace of wire-wrapped stones.
Required Materials: Seed beads, cylinder beads, rounds, rondelles, shell, jump rings, lobster clasp, wire, braided beading thread, beeswax. See project for complete list.
Tools Needed: Beading needle, scissors. See project for complete list.
Techniques Used: Peyote stitch, Wirework
Finished Size: 17 1/4" (with 2 5/8 x 2 1/4" focal)
Originally Published: Beadwork, June/July 2007