RESERVED - CLOSING SALE - Echinacea Purpurea, unique wire wrapped sterling silver necklace

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Reserved listing for Anna (AV1961), please do not buy unless you are her.


* * * CLOSING SALE - ENTIRE STORE 50% OFF * * *

Was $541 - Now $270.50

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I get these crazy ideas sometimes. Ideas that grow into monster projects that consume all my time for days and days. The Echinacea necklace is such an idea. I’ve been doing these wrap-around-the-neck necklaces for some time now but decided I wanted to take them one step further… and so I did by trying to emulate the Echinacea Purpurea – another of my favourite flowers.

Using 90cm (3ft) of 14ga sterling silver wire I shaped the neck piece and the flower separately from each other and then wrapped them together using over 36 meters (118ft) of hair thin 30ga sterling silver wire. After the frame had been completely wrapped - except for the little hammered piece of wire that’ll drop down in your cleavage - I continued with “painting” the flower. For the centre button I used hand cut and hand polished amber coloured Hessonite Garnet and for the petals sweet and sparkly Mystic Pink Quartz. (Mystic Pink Quartz is not Rose Quartz but coated clear Quartz and the pink colour comes from the mystic coating.) To create some interest and movement in the petals I added a couple of spots with tiny 2mm smooth Rhodolite Garnet rounds.

As always - this style of necklace is exceedingly comfortable and you barely notice it when you wear it. I actually forgot I was wearing this one, when I was setting up my “studio" for taking photos of it. When I was ready to start shooting I couldn't find it and it took me a few minutes before I realized I was still wearing it. *cough* Embarrassing but true.

Oxidised and polished.

The measurements:
Will fit any size neck.
Flower - approx. 12 cm (wide 4.7”) wide.
From centre neck to end of “tail” - approx. 26 cm (10.25”)


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Added on Nov 03, 2009

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