Spring has finally arrived here in my corner of Britain and to celebrate, I’m offering 20% off all items over £5.00 in my Etsy shop. Simply click on any of the gallery of items to your right, and then navigate from there. If you decide to purchase anything, just enter coupon code MAYSALE at the checkout to apply your 20% discount.
Offer closes midnight on 31st May 2017.
In my last post, I described a single micromosaic panel that I’d found, which had once been part of a bracelet. Now it’s been reborn as another bracelet, with the help of a bit of metal wire (salvaged from an earring) and some waxed cord.
I cut a length of the wire and made it into an oval jump ring using chain nose pliers. Then I slotted the jump ring into the C-shaped tube at one end of the panel, and squeezed the C-shaped tube shut with the pliers. Now there were loops at both ends of the panel, and I could then thread lengths of waxed cord through each loop and then use more cord to knot up the fastening. I’m not that great at knotting – it’s something that I need practice at. But it does the job.
Last week, I spent 50p on this rather lovely fragment of micromosaic that I found in a charity shop on Northdown Road:
Once upon a time, it would have formed part of a bracelet with several more identical panels of micromosaic. But sadly these have all been lost.
One end has a loop, while the other is a sort of elongated C-shape that would have hooked onto the loop of the next panel. If I could convert this end into another loop, I’d be able to thread some waxed cord through both ends and thus create another bracelet out of just this one piece. If I’m successful, there will be another post and more pictures.
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