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Queen of the Night

Friday, November 15, 2013



The collar for this necklace has been in my possession for a long time... I really could not decide what to do with it! I am still not sure if this design was the best I could do for it. For my luck the crystals (Swarovski crystals) had just perfect size to fit into the open spaces of the squares.

The collar is made by Irina Astratenko, the tatting and ANKARS artist. When she showed the collar to me, I knew it could be a base for something absolutely fabulous. Now I just needed to make it happen. I felt a great deal of responsibility!  

The first idea was to get Russian synthetic diamonds. It would be a lot more work to set the stones in silver. The necklace could become even more fantastic than right now, but... it would be against my idea to make something affordable, something that would be good for a fancy and fun night out, and not just fancy one.


The big Swarovski is set into a black Japanese glass seed beads bezel with more Swarovski crystals around it. The seed beads allowed me to transfer the lacy look from the collar onto the big drop and "marry" them together.

The black Swarovski crystal on the back is set into sterling silver. It can be white (if a buyer wishes so), but I personally felt that it needed to be black.


The necklace is available at the Just Jewellery gallery at the moment.

4 comments:

Irina Belinskaya said...

The perfect necklace! I'm in love with him! The perfect embodiment of the idea! A perfect union of the two artists! Bravo!:)

Natalia said...

Thank you, Irina! You are very kind! :)

Unknown said...

This is gorgeous :) I'm fascinated :) Following you on GFC, hope you can follow back :)

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Natalia said...

Thank you, Milana! :)

 
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