Tour Necklace/Bracelet

I love book art. I love jewelry. More and more, I’m finding ways to combine them.

I also really love the wrap jewelry from designer Chan Luu, and recently learned how to do my own wrap beaded designs.

Cue a shipment of mini books back from a gallery, and a match that would be eerily perfect (if not for the fact that turquoise is one of my default color settings.)

So ‘Tour’ the mini book became ‘Tour: the necklace/bracelet’.

The wrapped band combines braided turquoise cord and semiprecious stone beads: agates, hematite, jasper, aventurine, serpentine, and snowflake obsidian, with an antler button clasp.

More about ‘Tour’ and its original form here.

I’ll eventually put this piece on Etsy for around $200.00.