NEURODIVERGENT FOLKS: This one is strung with a little slack (see last photo) so you can also use it to STIM or FIDGET. :) The quiet clack and tactile feedback are highly satisfying.
Far from dainty, this rainbow glass beaded festoon beams love and color out into the world. It loosely follows nature's ROYGBIV color gradation with a clear quarts beads at the ends. It is heavily inspired by Pride and imitates Viking Age glass bead strands.
It's just over 20 inches long, strung on two closed rings, so it is wearable as a festoon strung from brooches. It's best for LARP, SCA, Faire, etc settings rather than living history, but perfect for the former. Included is an S-hook that will also allow you to wear it as a necklace.
Some of the beads are practically unintentional replicas, but others are more creatively anachronistic. It's a mix of vintage deadstock, modern mass produced lampwork beads, a trade bead or two, glass crow beads, and recycled glass beads from artisans in Ghana. (Viking raiders were trading the spoils of their raids in North Africa. Production of glass beads in Africa keeps being proven to have been more and more widespread as well as ever earlier. It's far from the most anachronistic thing about this, and the end result resembles beads people of the Viking age made themselves with very similar technique!) The somewhat-random sized and shapes, that's perfectly Viking, but no source exists supporting a rainbow arrangement that I've found (if you find one, show me!). Nope, this one's more about the FUN and the PRIDE.
Brooches are NOT included! We can recommend a brooch-maker for your budget but don't make them ourselves.