Arianrhod Circlet

For *jala -- my first commission for another DA person.

She wanted the band to be Celtic knot-ish with some LoTR elvish influence. When she told me that, I thought, "Noo! Anything but that! There's no way in the world I can do that with wires!" ...But instead of telling her that, I tried to sway her with about 18 other designs, then gave up and sucked it up and tried to make it.

There's approximately 52 feet of wire in this beast. The moon mosaic is a bunch of 2mm, 3mm, 4mm, 5mm, and 10mm beads I wove together with 32g wire and nylon fishing line stuff. There's white and rainbow moonstone, mother-of-pearl, blue lace agate, Swarovski AB crystals, pale blue and lavender Czech glass, and howlite in there (think I got everything). The little danglies on either side of the moon are ice flake quartz, and the drop beneath is labradorite.

*jala asked that the circlet be made with Arianrhod in mind, a Welsh goddess whose name means 'Silver Wheel.' She rules over the moon and stars, as well as initiation and reincarnation.