I've been making these Anni Albers-designed washer necklaces for a few years now. Anni was such an amazing woman. Married to the painter Josef Albers, she studied and taught at the Bauhaus, made an international reputation for herself as a textile designer (that's one of her textile patterns below), and figured out how to construct ingenious jewelry out of everyday objects like washers, bobby pins, and paper clips. You can buy kits to make her hardware-store washer and grosgrain ribbon necklaces here, or mix up materials (like my version above, made with cotton rope and enormous powder-coated washers).
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Very nice! I love your blog, Jess.
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