This necklace is a version of a tubular netted weave.  It can be made in an endless variety of colors.  The weave here has three sections to it, but that also can be varied to give a thicker, heavier appearance.  This necklace is done with Czech crystals and gold colored glassbeads.  It could also be done with precious materials using any stone as an accent bead and gold or silver for the netting.

I like projects where the three dimensional shape is generated by changing the sizes of the beads.  The large black beads that are the focal point of this necklace are made with tubular peyote stitch.  By changing the size from a 15/0 to 11/0 to 8/0 a hollow tube is naturally created.  The larger beads are black and the finer beads on the inside radius are white, which gives the focal beads something of a reptilian feel, like the belly of a snake or a lizard.

While this was not the first beaded necklace that I had made, it is one of my favorites and it is most likely the first where the end result realized what I had envisioned when I started making it. 

Fabricated of gunmetal grey cylindar beads in a peyote stitch tube with grey/purple pearls suspended on wire.