18" Navajo Sterling Silver Benchmade Bead Necklace protection The color combination looks beautiful

The color combination looks beautiful on any skin tone

Handmade by a Laos artist

20 free form pieces of soft blue Larimar from the Dominican Republic are bezel set and endsin a handmade sterling silver “blossom”

created this piece by carving the shape into sandstone and pouring molten sterling silver into it

18" Navajo Sterling Silver Benchmade Bead Necklace protection The color combination looks beautifulThe Navajo Indians are masters of sterling silver bead making. Sterling silver benchmade beads are made one at a time and are very labor intensive. Each bead starts as a disk of sterling silver which the silversmith shapes into one half of a bead and solders to another half. Many more steps of filing, cleaning and polishing follow until a beautiful strand of beads has been created. Oxidized for an antique look. Handmade in New Mexico.