A good session

[norsegirl]

Last night's efforts (took me until now to charge the batteries and get the pics off the camera). The ones on the left are kinda yuck (still figuring out how to deal with the green, and the purple spots were just and experiment to see how the clear purple laid on the mauve, not well I think). The ones at either end aren't sensational either, but usable at least. The rest all turned out pretty well though. Even had decent enough control over the green to keep it from bleeding too much.

I think I'm about 2-3 beads away from the necklace I want now, at most. I've even got the stringing order figured out. I'll post it when it's all put together. Which better be by tomorrow in time for the event.





In other news tax season is over for me. All my work is done, except my own taxes that is, and I don't have to do all the documentation and working paper junk I do for work, so that should go easy. It'll be nice to have a life again, or rather for the weekend until school starts up again - sigh.

Comments

purple/mauve

[utsi.livejournal.com]

is nice and subtle. would be interesting to see the mauve with purple diagonal stripes that match up with the diagonal indents (variation of your leftmost one)

i tend to like subtle and quiet though. :) maybe because there is too little in my life :)

what colours were common in period? i guess i should have a where in there too, but i really don;t know a lot about glass beads.

Re: purple/mauve

[eve-the-just.livejournal.com]

It's kinda hard to tell. All the pics I've seen of extant beads weren't very colourful at all (time and damage) they were also all pitted on the surface, and that sure wasn't the original condition.

Here's a nice assortment:
http://www.nfobase.com/assets/images/viking_7.jpg

from this site:
http://www.nfobase.com/html/viking_beads.html

The pictures for which are all lifted from here:
http://www.arkeodok.com/

For colours, as far as my understanding goes, think crayons. You want nice, bold colours, generally solid is more common than transparent (or rather, their transparent was muddier than the stuff that is sold now, so I can't get the same kind of "transparent" as they had, ours is too pure). Common designs that I can do include stripes and spots. Beads in solid colours with dents are also good. You'll see lots of examples of beads with frighteningly complex designs. These are Millefiori imported from Italy and I do not have the tools to recreate these. So this (http://www.arkeodok.com/Viking%20single%20beads/pages/F15445.html) or this (http://www.arkeodok.com/Viking%20single%20beads/pages/F1945.html), for example, I cannot do. But a striped bead like this this (http://www.arkeodok.com/Viking%20single%20beads/pages/F15466.html), a spotted bead like this (http://www.arkeodok.com/Viking%20single%20beads/pages/F4063.html) or striped bead like this (http://www.arkeodok.com/Viking%20single%20beads/pages/F24361.html) is easy. And this (http://www.arkeodok.com/Viking%20single%20beads/pages/F19283.html) is the inspiration for the diagonal dented beads.

Does that inspire you at all?

Anyway, I'm off to the glass store to buy more glass!