Turquoise Spiral

(2006) 16" for the overall length of the necklace, 1 1/4"x 1" for the focal bead.

Art glass bead (black, russet, clear and turquoise Moretti glass, 999 silver wire), Fireline, Bali silver, aventurine beads, onyx beads, silver beads, findings.

Another art glass bead. This one was built up from turquoise glass (still showing at the bottom and top), then encased in black glass. Afterwards I dotted the bead with the brown glass, then topped the dots with turquoise and clear glass and swirled them together with a piece of silver wire stuck into the soft glass between the dots and twisted around itself.

I then flattened the bead on the marver and added turquoise glass dots around the edges.

Of all the gemstone beads I have I felt this bead would work best with onyx, which picks up nicely on the black glass, and aventurine which happened to be just the same shade as the turquoise glass.