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simple string #20

Name: simple string #20
SKU: 13973
Price: 66.75 USD
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $89.00.Current price is: $66.75.

Categories: necklaces, simple string

I … might possibly have done a whole bunch of necklaces more-or-less like this. In blue & green & purple. Sometimes I’m a bit predictable.

“So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth …” — Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years

They’re not strung on string but they’re definitely strung. I couldn’t resist the reference to one of my favorite nonfiction books. Very much worth reading.

(yes this is another one of Those With Those Leaf Beads. come on, they BEG to be used that way.)

Availability: Only 1 left in stock

it's made from:
it's this big:

• the copper wire is from my brother-in-law, who used to fix diesel generators for a living • to him, it’s scrap • to me, it’s YAY FREE WIRE

• many of the beads came home from Pennsic with my roommate • a talenti jar full of POSSIBILITIES

• there are also beads from my Aunt Ann • & from a friend named Elizabeth • thanks y’all!

• the findings also came from Aunt Ann’s stash • if you need nickel-free findings, or a particular style of hook/latch/fastening • just let me know, I gotchu