In my relentless quest to cover my body in as much handmade stuff as possible, I recently finished making an embroidered cuff. I was inspired by these ones on Etsy, as well as others found on Pinterest.
These snakes are a design from An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows, which is a book I highly recommend if portal fantasies are at all your thing. The design is described as follows:
…someone had taken the liberty of tattooing her left wrist while she slept. … The design was simple enough: two entwined snakes biting each other’s tails, one red, one gold, and both delineated by a sharp black outline. Together, they made a continuous loop that encircled her wrist like a bracelet, their sinuous forms stylised in a way that reminded her of simultaneously of Celtic knotwork and Aztec glyphs.
Foz Meadows, An Accident of Stars p. 323
I wanted to get the snakes intertwining around each other, but I couldn’t work out how to get that happening at the same time as the biting of tails.
So, I thought having the ties be the two colours would kinda communicate that idea? Maybe? Hopefully.
It’s assembled like a rectangular cushion with the ties sewn into the outer seam, so all the stitching is on the inside.
I really like this technique; it would be a good way to try out new stitches or designs. This is probably about the widest I’d make the bracelets though – the wider I went, the more ties I think I’d need at the wrist, and two is fiddly enough. Unless I tapered the end into a blunt point….
Anyways, see ya!
Yves
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