Spiderweb Macrame with Turquoise from the Four Corners, USA

    $45.00

This necklace features a beautiful intense light blue color turquoise stone, trapped by a linen spiderweb over a jacaranda shell. The jacaranda is a nice flower tree that grows throughout South America, the jacaranda shells which contain the seeds inside hangs playfully from the tree. When mature they fall to the ground where the sun opens them up. In this necklace I used one half of the shell, which I picked up in Bolivia. It is truly beautiful, a wooden wonder. The size of the jacaranda shells will depend on the tree, some can be very small, of only one inch diameter and very thin like a leaf, while the biggest can be up to 4 inch diameter and one inch thick. The leaf from the tree make a wonderful cough medicine, we just put a couple leaves in hot water and drink it. I got the turquoise stone in Texas a few years ago at an amazing exposition of native American arts and crafts.

To clasp the necklace insert the cream acai seeds (from the Amazon) into the bead opening.  The necklace can be washed with gentle soap and a soft brush.  It can be used in water since all of its materials are water resistant.