I had these long blue glass beads and knew they would look best in a long necklace. I felt that perhaps in a bracelet or something smaller they would be too chunky and take the piece over a little. I used big black seed beads as a background and the small square matt gold beads to add interest and pick out the gold in the blue beads.
I wore this with a plain black abaya and a electric blue shawl the same colour as the beads (the picture doesn't pick up the colour).
A tip I picked up is that once I have tied the knot in the elastic or plastic wire, I paint the knot with clear nail-varnish to stop the knots slipping out. Whilst I was threading, I managed to listen to some of this very academic lecture by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf called How the Holy Quran was Compiled.
Aslamu alakum ukti
ReplyDeletemashaAllah that necklace it right up my street the colours are me , its beautiful ukti really nice.