The Conference of the Birds by Habiballah
This is a page from a 15th century manuscript.... I just loved the colours... so I felt the need to recreate the painting as a glass bead.. or at least the landscape part....
This is the front of the focal....
This is actually the back of the focal.... I worked on the focal for three days.... I'd pull it out of the kiln in the morning ...look at it and decide it was missing something... so back it went....
The chain was an 18" inch piece of chain that said I paid $9.00 for it... Sigh I wonder how long I've had it! The blue 'thread' is stringth... I thought it would be easy to twist thread through chain and knot the beads into it... Wrong I think by the last couple of knots I had it figured out????
Anyway by the time I cut the chain apart so that I could add the beads... I no longer had enough chain... so I had to solder all the cut links back together and add them to the chain... Then I found one of the links that I had soldered on the floor .. so I made a link.... so that I didn't waste the one I'd dropped....
The 'chain' can be worn with or without the focal....
