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Nov. 5th, 2019 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynWork in progress:
The stone is an ammolite doublet, which is a fancypants way of saying it's a thin layer of fossilized ammonites- sea creatures that went extinct along with the non-bird dinosaurs, related to modern cephalopods- sandwiched between a sturdier backing layer and an upper clear layer of unrelated material. Not sure if the clear is crystal or glass, don't really care, I gots me my pretty pretty fossil gemstone. The pearls're either Swarovski or Preciosa, I forget which; either way they're glass from eastern Europe, not actual pearls from actual oysters. The square wire is bronze, the half-round wire is red brass. The ammolite is 28 millimeters on the long axis, maybe 16mm on the short- I've forgotten but I think it was 16. I have a more or less triangular piece of pietersite (think tigereye, but denim blue with streaky reddish or whitish inclusions) which I plan to wrap in similar fashion and attach to the loop on the side that does not have the pearls; after that it's probably going to be Viking knit brass wire for the chain because I hate buying chains even though making Viking knit takes a zillion times longer than just shelling out the cash.
The stone is an ammolite doublet, which is a fancypants way of saying it's a thin layer of fossilized ammonites- sea creatures that went extinct along with the non-bird dinosaurs, related to modern cephalopods- sandwiched between a sturdier backing layer and an upper clear layer of unrelated material. Not sure if the clear is crystal or glass, don't really care, I gots me my pretty pretty fossil gemstone. The pearls're either Swarovski or Preciosa, I forget which; either way they're glass from eastern Europe, not actual pearls from actual oysters. The square wire is bronze, the half-round wire is red brass. The ammolite is 28 millimeters on the long axis, maybe 16mm on the short- I've forgotten but I think it was 16. I have a more or less triangular piece of pietersite (think tigereye, but denim blue with streaky reddish or whitish inclusions) which I plan to wrap in similar fashion and attach to the loop on the side that does not have the pearls; after that it's probably going to be Viking knit brass wire for the chain because I hate buying chains even though making Viking knit takes a zillion times longer than just shelling out the cash.
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