IMPORTANT: This listing is for a One of a Kind strand that cannot be replaced. We recommend Express Shipping with signature required upon delivery to make sure it arrives safely into your hands. This strand will be shipping in 3-5 business days.  

Inspired by the muted colors as well as the iridescence of the underside of moth wings, this strand is teeming with luminous gray moonstone beads paired with sterling silver hollow "pearls". 

The glittery powder of moth wings are actually tiny scales, not unlike fish scales, that easily shed during flight or when they are handled. Just like butterflies, moths are part of Lepidoptera, which means 'scale wing'. While this doesn't effect their flight patterns, it does make for a dreamy kind of romance and I imagine this "wing glitter" trapped with the moonstone spheres. 

Please keep in mind that these beads are ‘earth made’ and then each one is hand cut and hand formed. You will see the earth’s inclusions inside and outside each sphere. Nothing is imperfect to me. I see evidence of a jeweler’s or a stone cutter’s hand and I think of Rodin, and how his sculptures included the evidence of his hands - from a hundred plus years ago - and how that connects me and my team, to this lineage of hand-making, in a time when machinated ‘perfect’ work is becoming more and more normalized. I am trying to resist this idea of ‘perfection’, and I implore the same of you. These are all hand made, and earth made beautiful objects, so inherently, by today’s standards, they are ‘imperfect’ - because humans had their hands, and more importantly, their hearts on them.

The photographs accurately portray the quality of the stones and the cuts. 

This strand measures approximately 27.5 inches long from end to end.

At its closure is our is our largest protective Eye clasp, cast in sterling silver, oxidized to our favorite gloomy grey and finished to highlight the shining silver beneath. This clasp is tactile in nature making it easily held between the tips of your fingers and rubbed for comfort in times of grief, anxiety, dissociation, as well as during moments of joy and wonder.  

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Some of the beads used in this strand are limited. We can not anticipate whether or not this particular style will be available again after this release. 

*Length note: Because individual bead measurements vary slightly, total strand lengths are approximate within a few millimeters in either direction. Please reach out via email if you have any questions about this. 

Please email: bloodmilkjewels@gmail.com with any questions and we will get back to you in a kind and timely manner.