Cyanotype "Leila" version 1 opal glass The smaller beads are vintage

The smaller beads are vintage murano glass beads from the 1970s

The base is a triple chain made with two types of really great previously unused vintage brass chains from the 1960s

Carefully wrapped with extra sturdy golden brass wire and adorned with vintage "barley corn" brass chain from the 1970s

clasp and rings are sterling silver

Cyanotype "Leila" version 1 opal glass The smaller beads are vintageOriginal, unique cyanotype print of a photo that I have taken from a vintage 1926 German fashion magazine "Elegante Welt". Pictured in the photo, modeling a stunning headdress is Leila Bederkhan (1903 Constantinople 1986 Paris), a Kurdish dancer who was a very famous artist on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1920s and 1930s. Here she looks to me like someone stepped out of a dream. The very blue blueprint then takes the picture out of its original