A bold, bright, bunch of beaded bougainvillea bracts!
This piece has been entirely hand woven by Kerrie Slade using thousands of little seed beads and is an original design. Each flower takes approximately 3 to 4 hours to weave.
This necklace is made in two separate halves. Each half has a beaded green rope measuring approximately 13 inches with a bougainvillea bract attached to one end. The other end is attached to a removable clasp. There are nine removable bougainvillea bracts, each with a hanging loop. The necklace is designed to be worn with a knot at the front, just above the bracts and this results in a necklace which is approximately 17½ inches long . This design feature enables the wearer to wear as many or as few bougainvillea bracts as they please, a simple two, or the full eye catching cluster of eleven!
Each bract measures approximately 1¼ inches from top to bottom and approximately 2 inches from the top of the hanging loop to the tip of each bract. To add a touch of realistic interest, some bracts have 1, 2 or 3 'flowers' showing and some have none.
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