Last month, before the excitement of the Manor House Hotel, me and wonderful mum did a class at The Bead Shop Nottingham. It was a beadweaving project using half Tila beads along with seed beads and Swarovski bicones.
Normally the word "vintage" in a title puts me off, but this time I went with it. The necklace was called "vintage style lace necklace". I used black seed beads, jet bicones and the half Tilas are a lovely black but with shimmery iridescence on them.
I have to pat it all down flat when I put it on, I just couldn't get it to sit right in this photo!
It only took a couple of hours to make and I bought some copper beads so I can make another version in copper.
I had never worked with half Tilas before, I didn't even know they exist. Tilas are a square bead with 2 holes running through parallel. half Tilas are the same, but they are half size so are rectangular. I do love all these shaped beads that are coming out.
I had some time left at the end, so I whipped up a matching bracelet!
12 comments:
Oh how lovely, what great color combinations. I love both of them, modern and vintage style works welll with the beads.
Greetings,
Sylvia
Beautiful !
Anna
I really like this in its simplicity ~ great style and wonderful color choices. And if it can be made fairly fast, all the better!
So pretty! Love the colors :D
These turned out lovely! I absolutely love the Tila beads. Beautiful work!
Love vintage jewellery. This is necklace is splendid.
"Vintage" is a word that covers - or possibly inspires! - a multitude of sins, isn't it! I suspect the shaped beads are a relatively new thing, but regardless, this has turned out very well...
Wow, that's lovely. It looks like something they would wear on Downtown Abbey! xxx
very pretty
very pretty and love the colour choice of the beads you have used to create this
Very pretty
ohhh this is soooo pretty.. and i must gothic looking too.. ;)
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