Love your melon shell strands and #1 by Robert Tenorio.
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@nanc9354 I agree with you. The #1 necklace by Robert Lewis Tenorio is the one I wear most often. I really like the addition of the lapis beads.
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I would still love to eventually buy a necklace like this one with the small silver beads mixed in. I saw some similar turquoise earrings at Garland’s last year. Another customer was looking at them, and debating whether to purchase. They were natural turquoise, quite lightweight with teeny tiny heishi, and a really good price. I told the gal she should most definitely buy them, but secretly I was like, no wait I want them 
She bought them.
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Good things come to those who wait! I can hardly wait to see what you find on your next trip west.
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You reminded me, I forgot to post my micro heishe. These two necklaces are by Nick and Me-Wee Rosetta (Kewa), the same artists as the necklace above. Five strand turquoise and three strand marble, both with interspersed silver beads.
And just for fun I’m going to cheat and post these two liquid silver necklaces, also by Nick and Me-Wee. Liquid silver was invented by Nick’s parents as a kind of silver heishe. The Rosetta family has always hand drawn their liquid silver from sheet silver, but the technique has been copied by manufacturers and now the vast majority of liquid silver is machine made.
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@OrbitOrange These are fantastic 
and look oh so wearable. Great adds to the thread!
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I would wear all four necklaces. So glad you shared them with us.
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Love these (of course!), and you have fabulous taste 
And thanks for the info on how the silver is made by this family. Now I know what artist to look for down the road if I’m wanting to buy one of these. It’s just on my wish list for the future; I don’t plan on spending any more on jewelry this year.
@here4turquoise, you will be waiting quite a while, cuz we probably won’t be out there again till next spring.
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I can wait and know you’ll find some out of this world pieces.
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Great necklaces @OrbitOrange! Thanks for sharing the hand drawn silver by Nick and Me-Wee Rosetta, and the information about his parents. I hadn’t heard of them, but am impressed!
I have a multistrand necklace and several single strand chains of square hand pulled liquid silver by Ed Aguilar (Kewa). He also made his beads and chains the time-consuming way the Rosetta’s did, but from my understanding, he was the only artist to make square beads (Heishi?). Evidently, Ed learned the process of pulling silver from his uncle. He also made cylindrical silver beads and other heishi, but is best known for the square beads.
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Yes, I love Ed Aguilar’s rectangular liquid silver. What a lovely set you have! I wanted to clarify to @Ziacat that the Rosetta family were/are not the only ones to make hand drawn liquid silver (and was actually specifically going to mention Ed), though Nick’s parents were apparently the first.
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@Bmpdvm What a beautiful and unique necklace. I had never seen or heard of square/rectangular silver beads before your post. Thank you.
@OrbitOrange Thank you for bringing liquid silver into the conversation. I enjoy learning from each of you.
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Thanks for the information on Nick Rosetta and family. These stories of the time consuming way these wonderful pieces were made is important for us to remember. That’s similar to the tedious way heishi was initially made with a pump drill.
I really like the Rosetta’s finely made turquoise and silver heishi necklaces; another artist to add to my list😄.
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I finally have time to sit down and spend some time going through this thread again. Talk about a heishi fix!!! @Ziacat, Initially I didn’t see the Spondylus beads you mention, but with a closer look, I found all 4! Very cool😊.
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I knew I had heard of the Rosetta name, but couldn’t remember where I first read about the pulled silver heishi technique. After pulling out some of my older references, I found it. There is an excellent conversation with Ray and Mary’s son, Johnnie Rosetta in Rosnek and Stacey’s book “Skystone and Silver, The Collector’s Book of Southwest Indian Jewelry”, pp119-120. Johnny discusses his parents (Ray and Mary Rosetta) and their development of hand drawn silver heishi along with pump drilling turquoise. Excellent and interesting information! If anyone without the book would like a copy, let me know and I’ll message you a copy.
Also, when leafing through this book…look what I found! I’ve no words!
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Wow!! That’s beautiful. Out of curiosity does it say what turquoise mine?
It’s funny, I was looking through the whole thread again a few hours ago also, and loving everybody’s things. I was imagining the layering possibilities of all the different necklaces. Someone should start a topic on how we wear and layer our jewelry. I would love to see how members wear and enjoy their stuff - not just necklaces, but also rings and cuffs, etc. Maybe I’ll do that eventually since I am not planning on buying anything new to post for quite some time
And yes, @Bmpdvm, the pieces of spiney are a nice little bitty surprise.
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That would be a fun topic. I usualloy layer bracelets and sometimes necklaces.
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Hi Zia…the caption with this interesting group states only: “Choker and bib necklace made of restrung jaclahs and strands purchased to match. Many of the strands were gifts of indian bead makers to the owners over the years.” Wish it stated who the owner was, but I doubt if any of the turquoise was known. This book was published in 1977, so these are older pieces. The turquoise is likely from a variety of mines and if the mine was known initially, over time that information can be lost.
And, please do start a layering thread…I don’t do a lot of layering, so I can use some ideas!
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I know nothing about this category, but I snagged this necklace recently at an estate sale because I liked how the beads were cut at just the right angles to drape totally smoothly. It feels silky-smooth like a snake when you run your fingers along it. There are a few little bites out of the edges of some beads, and if you look closely the bead edges have almost like polished-away faceting rather than being perfectly circular. There are no markings.
Does any of this indicate anything to y’all?
I’m also curious if anyone has had necklaces like this re-strung, and if there’s a go-to place for that job. I’m a little nervous about the old-looking string breaking when I wear it – it’s heavy.
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