I made this bracelet a couple months ago, and am finding it hard to figure out how to label it. It's made with roccailles (sp) on linen cord, with macrame knots forming the lace pattern. I just sat down one day and didn't come up for air for three days because the knots were SO tiny, I was going blind doing them, lol.
It's fabulous! I'd call it beadweaving, I guess, but then describe the micro-macrame technique. The INTENSIVE micro-macrame technique!
I hope you're charging enough for it....no, wait, no one would be able to afford it. Sigh
~~ Sooz
------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
It looks like a weave to me, but I know nothing about it!
Very pretty!
off-loom woven macrame? hand-knotted lace weave?
It's very nice :)
I used to do macrame when I was about 10 - I think that is all I did one summer. Everyone was wearing my jewelry, hanging their plants in my plant hangers... it was fun. I wonder why I stopped doing it or what I did the following summer. I think I may have to try it again - my mom recently sent me the book I had used to teach myself that year - some of it is SO seventies, but a lot of it would still work today in updated colors of course.
Arondelle
Here it's called "micro-macrame" in classes they give at my LBS. I've seen it called that in magazines and books too. ~~ Sooz
------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
well that works for me ;) would macro-macrame be the plant hangers then?
Thank you, Sooz! No one has ever called my stuff fabulous before...I'm all warm and glowy now :) And thank you, Jerri! I really think it's pretty too. I had considered posting it to eBay, but am really unsure of a price on it. Anyone have suggestions of what would be a good starting price? Materials costs were very low, it was really the time and labor that would make up the bulk of the price.
After DH and I get this mountain of a hemp order done, I think I may be making more pieces like this one. I'm going to need some cotton gloves to do it tho, cause I can't seem to get my hands to stay dry. Sort of a sweaty palms issue....yucky! And working with waxed linen cord with hot hands is not a good thing.
Candace...the sweaty palmed rambler :)
Haw! How about mondo-macrame? ~~ Sooz
------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
I have absolutely no idea how to make macrame plant hangers...and most of my jewerly IS macrame'd! lol...someday, I'll have to figure it out. And thank you, Pam, for the compliment :)
~Candace~
It's just a big old supportive necklace for a potted plant! Haw! ~~ Sooz
------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
I'd definitely call that off loom beadweaving - very pretty! :)
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