Twilight Flight Project Download

Description

Gold vermeil links resembling twigs and birds need only a small strand of lapis lazuli briolettes to become a showstopping necklace. The shiny gold findings bring out the brilliant blue of the lapis, a stone whose modern name originates from the Persian word lazhuward, meaning blue, and the Arabic word lazaward, meaning heaven or sky.

Required Materials: Briolettes, links, toggle clasp, crimp tubes, beading wire, 24-gauge wire. See project for complete list.

Tools Needed: Wire cutters, Flat-nose pliers, Round-nose pliers, Chain-nose pliers, Crimping pliers

Finished Size: 15 ½” (39cm)

Originally Published: Create Jewelry: Stones 2008