SAGE Wrap Necklace Harness Fine Jewelry Precious Gems Beads Metals

• Carnelian German cut faceted disk

• Citrine faceted nuggets

• Blue Apatite squares

• metallic hued Fresh Water Pearls

• Garnet faceted triangles

• Petrified Redwood Tree round beads

• African Turquoise in varied shapes and tones; tubes, button and barrel beads

• Pyrite in varied shapes; giant cube, small button beads & faceted beads

• Smokey Quartz in a faceted teardrop

• Rose Quartz in varied shapes; rectangular, cubes and mini diamond-cut beads

• White Coral seed beads

• “third eye” Moqui Marbles inlaid bead with abalone & sterling silver

• antique African Red-glass & White-glass “Green-heart” beads

• African sand-cast beads

• Chevron & striped glass beads in red, blue and white combined with antique, navy colored Maasai beads (a little bond in solidarity for the Nice attack)

• filigree Baule Brass beads from the Ivory Coast made using authentic

• lost-wax castings featured here in rare designs; antique mini-heart-to-heart, sun, tube-weave, wrapped end-tube filigree, triangle-leaf & antique bells.

• African Bauxite beads in burnt umber

• Jasper beads

• Swarovski Crystal in Sage Smokey Quartz squares

• Old Abyssinian glass crystal cube bead

• Blue Old annular Wound Dogon beads

• Batik Bone beads (byproduct-found remains) in many abstract and literal designs; zig-zag, star

• Old Maasai African Turkana navy glass bead

• Ethiopian round brass bicone beads

• African Mali Terracotta black bicone bead

• Antique Sterling Silver tube beads, Ethiopian White Metal beads

• Ethiopian Copper tube beads

• African recycled glass beads in varied shapes and colors

• Copper bicone heishi beads

• Brass spacers

• Vintage Hebron Yellow Kano bead

• varied African, Indian and Tibetan beads

• Authenticated with a circular, hand-stamped sterling silver paillette.

Alexandria Black are power pieces. Luxurious accessories & heirloom jewelry with versatility. I take inspiration from my body of work as well as studies & appreciation of art history, ethnology, color, textiles, fashion, couture, antiques, design, travel, architecture & music. Our designs are also heavily influenced by the ethos of nature & current events occurring here & in countries around the globe. This research, as also in life, is a continual journey. Each design is created & produced with astute attention to detail, love, & healing intentions. The end result is a modern, industrial sculptural & historical design with an asymmetric edge.

This necklace is carefully crafted with large, ornamental, incongruent-shaped pieces juxtaposed against small, geometric color-filled ones creating a beautiful balance as it’s placed about your décolletage. It can move or be placed in countless ways for endless looks. The Nomadic Wrap contains incredibly vibrant gems: shiny and polished and others old, weathered and rutty from time. Each one of these beauties is bathed in rich jeweled tones colored from the earth. I've incorporated seductively hued stones with beads of the finest variety. The beads are carefully chosen for their antiquity and craftsmanship of their makers. Please note minor flaws, imperfections, or inclusions may appear within these hand-crafted beads & raw gems. It's one aspect of their inherent beauty.

Alexandria Black components & artifacts are purchased almost exclusively through fair trade vendors & suppliers who liaise with them. They ethically source these "energetically" healing gemstones, crystals, & ancient periapts. Most come from talented artists who are aboriginal nomadic tribes people & refugees from countries all over the world. I combine a splice of these traditional & societal antiquities from differing cultures with one another. I believe they are a diverse and beautiful amalgamation of design that creates an opening for energetic balance.

Precious stone designs are accompanied by an email with an identifying list containing the scientific & metaphysical energetic healing qualities and historical details contained within all of the gems & hand-crafted beads in your piece. All accessory & jewelry items are shipped securely inside our signature keepsake storage satchel that is made with inimitable and repurposed materials.

I have more images and specificities of size, quantities, and grades of all of individual gemstones if you're interested. Most of the gems are of the highest quality AAA ratings.

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One of my favorite things to do is to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC with my amazing young son. He now has a love and fondness for the museum experience that is growing close to his mommy's.

. . . thank you for letting me share myself with you!

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