Silver and Scarlet Draped Diamond Earrings

Grace your ears in elegant knitted steel!
 
Fluid bias-knit silverlinked diamonds embrace bold lines of sparking scarlet Swarovski crystals in these elegant one-and-a-half inch-long earrings, finished with your choice of surgical steel or sterling silver hooks. I created these draped diamond earrings out of sparkling sections of Japanese chainmail and securely fastened crystals. Unlike European chainmail, which is linked squarely in a straight-grain design, Japanese chainmail organizes links across the bias, creating a flexible fabric-like mail that drapes fluidly to frame the wearer's shape and slips through the fingers like steel silk. This fluid effect is amplified by the fineness of the links I work with. It's difficult handwork, but the results are so worth it: a bold diamond of knitted steel.