Trellis
Green aventurine and green rutilated quartz beads are joined by colourful chevrons from the ‘80s ‘climbing’ along silver tubes in this lively asymmetric 68 cm necklace named Trellis. For more info on the necklace, please click on Details, and if interested in my musings,please go to Story
The identification of the beads
starts from the bead in the centre, moving upwards, with measurement for some of the bigger beads, with metal beads named last.
Length:68 cm (27”)
Weight: 151 gms
Irregular shaped aventurine pieces: vary in size, centrepiece approx. 15 mm wide by 20mm long, and 10 mm thick
A medley of small chevrons from the ‘80s
Round
green aventurine: 14 and 16 mm
Round green rutilated quartz: 16 mm
Metal spacers
Grooved silver tubes: 25 mm long
Gold-filled crimp tubes
Engraved silver hook and rings
Silver Manik identity disc
When I first bought the irregular shaped green aventurine pieces from Mr L many years back I was not sufficiently experienced in my designs yet to know how to design with them, but I collected them anyway, because I thought that in time, I would come up with something…
Be that as it may, it took many iterations before I hit on this eventual design that you see here. Indeed, this is a necklace in its second ‘life’ – the first, which I strung up, also used the aventurine pieces, the aventurine rounds and bicones, the silver tubes and the small green chevrons from the ‘80s, found in Kuching in ’22, post-Covid. It was a symmetric necklace which I called ‘Verve’, but my niece N said she wasn’t feeling it, and to be honest, neither was I. So I took it apart and started all over again. I decided to be bolder, and added in green rutilated quartz to dilute the dense greenness of the aventurine. I then
decided to go asymmetric, and when it looked as though it would work, I excitedly threw in a handful of the more colourful, bigger chevrons. I was very pleased with the final result that you see here. I think it’s striking and lively, and at the same time, easily wearable. I do think that the design of this gemstone necklace is quite unique!
When I looked at the overall effect, it seemed like the Thai silver tubes form a structure along which the various pieces are being supported and ‘climbing’, and so I named it Trellis. At 68 cm, Trellis can easily go over collars, or not, and would work with a range of colours from whites to brights, to the deeper, darker tones including navy, black and dark brown. Have fun and experiment!
