Calypso's Dream, beadwork necklace

Description

"But not in silence pass Calypso's isles,
The sister tenants of the middle deep;
There for the weary still a haven smiles,
Though the fair goddess long hath ceased to weep,
And o'er her cliffs a fruitless watch to keep
For him who dared prefer a mortal bride:
Here, too, his boy essay'd the dreadful leap
Stern Mentor urged from high to yonder tide;
While thus of both bereft, the nymph-queen doubly sighed.

Her reign is past, her gentle glories gone:
But trust not this; too easy youth, beware!
A mortal sovereign holds her dangerous throne,
And thou may'st find a new Calypso there... "

-Lord Byron, 'Childe Harold's Pigrimage'

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Imagine a seas washed beach, strewn with seashells and precious stones, imagine a man, shipwrecked, washing up on this shore and rising, sees a beautiful woman, as if from a dream...

So happened to Odesseus in Homer's 'The Odessey', where he was trapped upon Calypso's faire Isle for 7 long years...

'Calypso's Dream' is a 20" long necklace comprised of mixed goldens, creams, browns and tans, sea blues, cobalts, and various other colors of seed beads, with topaz dagger beads, genuine Carnelian and Amber chunks, and scatters of real seashells in a freeform peyote stitch.

She undulates across the wearer's neckline, and sinously curves around to join, in a loose, yet strong, spiral rope chain to a goldtone toggle clasp at the back.

All created on 8lb test weight FireLine.

The artist is a member of the Etsy BeadWeavers StreetTeam, search 'EBW' to see more sumpetous works in beadweaving.

To read more about this piece, go to http://wolfsilveroak.insanejournal.com/383342.html

Design Copyright 2007 by Wolf SilverOak

Added on Oct 15, 2009