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Necklace #1

6/21/2020

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Last summer I made an a skirt suitable for someone in Northern, and possibly, Central Europe that could possibly have been worn from 200ish BCE to 200ishCE.  There are a lot of ifs and ishes in that because it was purely an experimental item, based on multiple finds, for me to just test the waters to see if I wanted to go that far backwards in time.

By the time I finished the skirt, I had decided I was more interested in Central Europe than Northern (despite the time I took to look at some books about the Jastorf Culture) and realized I wanted to take a fresh look at early Celtic material culture.  I started to research early Celtic beads (admittedly with no attention being paid to regions, but some attention paid to time period) and I crafted a necklace of glass beads that appealed to me.  I make no assertion that this necklace is appropriate for a single specific time and place, but I am very fond of it now and am happy that I made it.
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Beads and bling!

3/3/2020

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The beads in the cover photo are all ones I made last summer for my Ugly Skirt kit.  I am VERY pleased with how they turned out and am working on improving my skills in recreating very early glass beads.

The yellow bead with the double row of blue and white eye beads is one that caught the eye of a friend who centers her focus on Carthage and Punic history.  She asked me to make some for her and that started me researching additional beads for her kit. 

And then I realized that they are the very same beads I need for mine, including fan favorites like derpy rams and big fugly beads like the aqua ones in the photo below that I was playing with last week.  

At least it will be easy to make sure all of these experiments find homes!
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    Iron Age Celtic Studies

    My first interest in historic costume and culture was for all things Celtic.  I knew so little about it three decades ago, but have been slowly piecing together things and am starting to build up a persona for the Iron Age in Central Europe.

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