Last week I posted a picture of this project as I began it. Here it is finished -- many, many hours of work in this one. Also, many hours figuring out the placement of the different components.
I began by encasing each of the 4 dichroic pieces with beaded bezels - they are all on the same backing. When I finished the bezels, I began filling in, first the outline, then the inside of the butterfly. It is backed with leather and edged with gold color beads.
The top wings are mostly done with backstitching and the bottom wings are done with peyote.
The neck strap is woven with peyote stitch with 4 different colors of size 8/0 beads and edged with the same gold beads that are around the butterfly. Small square mother-of-pearl beads are sewn onto the neck strap.
This is a rather large piece. The butterfly is 4" across at the widest part of the wings (at the top) and 3" long from the tallest part of the wing to the bottom. Neck straps are 9" on each side.
