Brass Strand of Beads

Tiny barrels cut with diagonal hatching, lined up like a very patient picket fence.

This is a strand of beads. It is brass. Brass has long been a favored metal for beads, its warm gold color deepening to a soft brown with handling. Short cylinder beads in warm gold, each etched with slanting crosshatch lines. Thin dark spacer rings sit between them, giving the strand a ribbed, stepped rhythm. A larger end bead carries the same pattern, and the thread shows white at the turn.

Tiny work, done with the confidence of someone with a big workshop.