Blue and Green Peyote Stitched Pin
Hey, Let's try peyote with 4mm beads!
Not only that, but can we change direction? Hmm, we can. What fun. Hey, edging in 15/0s looks good, and so do hexes....
The pin back is stainless steel, based upon an ancient roman design. It's made with the same wire that I used in the variation on a theme by David Chatt bag. Commericial pin backs are fine, but I thought this was a more elegant solution.
I gather Philip Fike (from whom I took metalworking classes at Wayne) made such pins all the time, out of silver. And was offended when one of his students, upon hearing they were a good bread and butter item, wanted him to show her exactly how to do them! Tch, tch, tch, especially when good photographs of the original roman ``safety pins'' are so widely available. I've never bothered making the plain metal pins out of silver (that involves forging, which I don't do) but I've often made them out of steel wire as ``backs'' for pieces.
Materials and Techniques: glass, goldfill, brass, and (one, count 'em) african turquoise cube bead, nylon, stainless steel; peyote and wirework (so to speak)
$75
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