Name: simple string #21
SKU: 13982
Price: 31.00 USD
Availability: InStock

simple string #21

$31.00

I had NO idea what to do with this little flower pin, until I realized that if I just did a little work with snips & a file, it would, in fact, be pointed at the bottom.

“So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth …” — Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years

They’re not strung on string but they’re definitely strung. I couldn’t resist the reference to one of my favorite nonfiction books. Very much worth reading.

(I hadda glue two of those lil pale blue buggers back in there • they better STICK is all I’m sayin)

Availability: Only 1 left in stock

• the copper wire is from my brother-in-law, who used to fix diesel generators for a living • to him, it’s scrap • to me, it’s YAY FREE WIRE

• many of the beads came home from Pennsic with my roommate • a talenti jar full of POSSIBILITIES • (the yellow wire came from them too, but LAST year)

• there are also beads from my Aunt Ann • & from a friend named Elizabeth • thanks y’all!

• the chain • & the costume jewelry piece at the bottom • also came from Aunt Ann’s stash • SO MUCH FUN