Silver Core Red Floral

Description

I love beads with silver cores; they look so "finished". I used to core the beads with scary tools like a pointy steel bezel shaper and a rawhide mallet and steel dapping tools. It was a slow, nerve wracking process which involved repeatedly hitting the bead with the mallet. Now there are new tools that make the process much less scary and they make the process somewhat faster too; so I plan to make these cored beads fairly often.

This is an encased floral bead with a black base, green and black striped vines and velvety deep red flowers with multiple layers of petals. There are also a few tiny red flowers added for accent. All the main focal flowers have a cubic zirconia in the center of them.

With the core in the bead, the hole size is 5.5mm. The bead is 10mm hole to hole and 19mm in diameter. It looks good on any silver chain (fine or heavy weight) or you could wear it on the black rubber cords that I sell.

THE CHAIN IN THE PHOTO IS NOT INCLUDED.

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Jennifer
Highland Beads

Added on Nov 28, 2009