I've had this peacock feather (bought when I was a kid) lying around, and it's always getting lost. So I thought, why not make something out of it that won't be so easily lost, so I made this for myself.
First I cut the feather as close to the plumage as I could, but I didn't throw the other bit away. I'll show you what I did with that later. I wrapped copper wire around the top and around a copper jump ring several times for security.
I used the many different coloured semi-precious stones I had to emulate the graduating colours of the feather itself. I started with Goldstone flecked Bluestone chips on either side of the feather pendant.
I didn't have any purple beads that matched the shade I wanted, so I went for turquoise instead. This is "S" shaped Blue (dyed) Lemon Turquoise.
I then threaded different sized Antique Bronze metal beads onto pins and bent them into a marquise shape and hung these pear shaped - Turquoise (dyed) Picasso Jasper beads from them.
There's two thin lines of brown either side of a bright green before it fades into the beautiful dark green colour on the feather. So to emulate this, I got to use my new brown acrylic beads and lime silver lined seed beads.
Finally I ended with one of my favourite semi-precious stones - Malachite.
And it's all connected with an antique bronze barrel clasp.
A couple more malachite chips and Capri blue beads for distinction...
and voila! Peacock earrings.
I have no idea what the price is as I was just having fun. I can't replicate this design at all, it's just something I made for myself. I do plan to do more work with feathers though, so keep checking back!
