Three crystal bracelets

Variations on a theme, an idea I had on how to use beads to construct a base row of adjoining square shapes, like links in a chain, upon which I could set a row of crystals.



The first was done with glass beads reclaimed from old jewelry, so that I could work out my idea. For it, I used milky white beads for the base row and violet fire polished beads for the top row. For the next bracelet, I used black seed beads to construct the "link" row, and used reclaimed clear crystals for the second row. The third bracelet has clear Swarovski crystals forming a base for a row of colored Swarovski crystals. This was the bracelet I had envisioned to begin with, and had worked out the method to execute, a slow gradation of color in crystal, from yellow at one end, moving through orange, and ending at red on the other end.

All three bracelets were strung using nylon beading thread, and have magnetic clasps.