Tinker’s Bells are made with handmade yarns, found treasures and upcycled and handmade beads. I use them as my distaff when I spin with a spindle.
Tinker’s Bells can be worn as a jewel in your hair, on your arm or in your Virus Shawl or any other open crocheted piece of clothing. I use them when I spin on my Spindles. It keeps te wool out of the way and the tingling sound the little bell makes is so relaxing!
They aren’t as fragile as they look. They are actually very well suited for a off grid, outdoor lifestyle. I love to wear them from summer to winter, always visible. They make a good use to tie up my hair, or tie my shawls snugly around me.
Tinker’s Bells aren’t fixed pieces of art either, the wire in them makes them malleable and changeable. Like a Bouquet you can manipulate the flowers and make your own bouquet. This playing with them is for me also a function: they inspire me, and give me a visual stim.
Tinker’s Bells are called that way because they all have a little subtle bell and tinkle a little bit, it is like a Fairy sits on your shoulder. And Tinker because of how they are made.
Tinkering
Handspun yarns were used. Made from hand dyed wool, carded into pretty art batts, and spun by hand. All wool is mulesing free, and dyed as sustainable as possible.
All the beads are either handmade or up cycled from found treasure in my inheritance of my mother, found jewelry on the street (washed before use off course) or second hand.
Only a few materials were necessary to combine all this together into these little Tinker’s Bells.
Tinker is a name for my kind of people, the best description I have ever found for what I do and how I live is determined by this term. Tinkering is finding stuff and creating new things from them. Like Fairies know how to do.
CREATIVE PROCESS
Tinker’s Bells take me a long, long, looooong time to create. Each and everyone of them has been designed in my head years ago. I have carried around all the lost and found treasure, beads stash from my late mother and so many beads and buttons for a very long time. In that time I was homeless at times. And or living without money. In a van, a hut, a tent, and I even saved my collection from the demolishment of my first home.
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