Karla Schabert

"Valuable" is not the material but the work Leonardo da Vinci's image 'the lady with the ermine' was the inspiration for the development of the crochet series, the aim being to make a necklace that looks as close as possible to the chain in the picture. I hand-crochet glass beads out of the finest yarn, which applies to my jewelery: they are puristic in their appearance, but manufactured in a complex, protracted process. "