Native American Bear and Bone Necklace
My daughter Riley designed this necklace. She designed it to give to a school friend for his birthday. Change the pendant to give the necklace a more or less masculine feel. The original necklace sported a very cool wolf pendant, in honor of the favorite animal of the birthday boy.
Because this was designed for a child, it’s only about 14 inches long. Feel free to add additional repetitions of the primary pattern (1 bone tube, 3 heishe disks) to lengthen it. Each repetition is about 1X inches. If you want to lengthen it in smaller increments, add heishe disks between the bone beads or near the clasp. Just make sure to keep the design symmetrical. Use a bead board if you need to.
Tools and Materials
- Wire cutters
- Flat-nose pliers
- Crimp pliers
- 18 inches of nylon coated stainless steel beading wire, 0.12 diameter
- 42 (roughly 3′4 inches) 5mm heishe disk beads, shell
- 10 25mm carved tube beads, simulated bone, off-white
- 1 bear pendant
- 2 antiqued metal beads 2 2×2mm crimp beads 1 barrel clasp
1 Slide a crimp bead onto your beading wire. Follow it with the loop from one piece of your barrel clasp. Rethread the wire through the crimp bead, making loop with the wire that holds the loop on your clasp. Using your crimp pliers, crimp the bead in place.
2 Slide on one antiqued bead. Tuck the end of the beading wire (below the crimp) into the antiqued bead.
3 String 5 heishe disks onto your beading wire.
4 Follow it with a bone tube and 3 heishe disks.
5 Repeat Step 4 four more times for a total of five. This brings you to the center point of your necklace.
6 Slide on your bear pendant. Follow the pendant with 3 heishe disks.
7 Add 1 bone tube and 3 heishe disks. Repeat the 1 bone tube, 3 heishe disks pattern four times for a total of 5 times.
8 Add 2 more heishe disks and an antiqued bead to finish your stringing.
9 Slide a crimp bead on the beading wire. Follow it with the remaining side of your barrel clasp. Rethread the beading wire though the crimp bead. Hold the crimp bead gently with your crimp pliers. Using your other hand and your flat-nose pliers, pull the wire taut to take up any slack in your necklace. Then crimp your bead into place. Thread the end wire down through the first bead on your strand. Using your wire cutters, cut off any excess wire under your first bead.
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Reading your post made me remember the time when my two daughters made a pair of necklace and bracelet for me as a birthday gift. They were just in pre-school that time (one was 5 years old while the younger one was 4) but they sure knew how to please their mom!
They were actually beautiful – my daughters’ gifts – having a golden heart pendant and charm (not a real gold of course) threaded on a nylon-coated wire which apparently came from their broken fashion necklace, as I learned later on. Perhaps it may just be my love for them or these things do look very good on me, but these pieces of jewelry are among my favorites!
Anyway, you have a great blog here – keep up the good work!
would like to see a picture of the necklace. i have some wolf heads howling at the moon looking for more of other animals. they are about 2×2. made of cream colored material. do not know if they are bone, or some kind of plastic. would you have any suggestions. thanks. elaine
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