Black and white shibori hair barrette

This is actually my fist bead embroidery with shibori silk, but I haven´t posted these pictures yet. 

As it was my first project, I made a lot of pictures of the process. It was a custom order, so she could follow the process also when I posted these steps on my FB page. 

Customer wanted to have black and white hair barrette. So I started with 5 cm peace of white shibori silk ribbon, black glass cabachon and different glass beads. This hair barrette blank is specially for thick hair, that is why it looks like a bit different. 

I cuted shibori ribbon into two peaces, fixed it to black felt and started with cabachon ... 

... and continued adding different seed beads and some bigger black fire polished beads. 

 After finishing embroidering I glued it to a cartong so it is sturdy and holds it´s shape. Then I fixed it to barrette blank and stitched the edges. 

 Backside is covered with dark gray felt. 

I was satisfied with this barrette and so was my customer :)

Set of pink earrings and hair barrette

Some time ago I bought some transparent glass cabachons and colored them myself. I used two different nail polishes - transparent with some glitter and pink with metallic shine. 

I like the color of these cabs - they are not too bright, but they are pink enough:)

I started with hair barrette. I used big oval and two drop cabs and surrounded them with different seed beads. I love those big (size 6/0) pink Toho beads, they are transparent color lined and have a little greenish shine and they match so well with my cabs. 

I used golden blank this time, as I used some small golden seed beads when stitching. Backside of this barrette is covered with felt.

 After finishing hair barrette I made matching earrings. I used small, 12 mm, glass cabachons and the same seed beads as in hair barrette.

And here you can see the set. At the moment the earrings and barrette are not together anymore. I sold the earrings and new owner wanted me to make matching necklace. So soon I´ll show you one pink necklace, something similar like this or this. 

More shoe clips

I have done some more shoe clips recently. Here are three of them. 

First pair is with flat mother of pearl bead and lovely frozen Czech glass beads. 

Second pair is also with flat mother of pearl beads and fire polished glass beads. 

And the last pair is with syntethical cabachons and bicones.

Charcoal and pink shibori silk bracelet

Some tima ago I ordered two grogeous shibori silk ribbons made by  Deborah Weaver from ArtisticWeavers . At first I planned to make some hair barrettes and pendants with these ribbons. But when I got them and had ´so much´ pleated silk in my hands I couldn´t resist to do something a little bigger.

I had one pink colored agate cabachon and matching pink freshwater pearls (I think freshwater pearls go so well with shibori) which when so well with this lovely charcoal gray silk. So I started ...

 I used also different seed beads in pink, black and silver and some darker pink fire polished glass beads. It was so good to stitch, because the pleats of silk tell you where to add some more beads. Finally this peace became qiute ´coated´. Maybe in next shibori peace there will be the silk more visible.

 I didn´t used metal bracelet blank. So this bracelet is quite flexible around the wrist. But it is a little molded so it holds nicely. Finally I added flower-shape silver T-clasp for the closure.