THE WHOLENESS OF A BROKEN HEART
By Katie Singer
Published by Riverhead Books / Penguin Putnam


The Novelist Makes Necklaces

 


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Necklaces

Earrings

Bracelets

old Chinese earplugs (low-grade silver)

Majapahet glass burial beads, 1,000 years old

Afgani glass and jade

silver from India

handwoven cord


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Katie Singer's Jewelry - Majapahet glass burial bead necklace

Katie Singer's Jewelry - glass, amber, turquoise necklace

old glass cylinder from area
now called Nepal

Moroccan amber

Chinese turquoise

handwoven cord

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New Guinea brideprice shells

various findings – bone, cowrie shells, lotus seeds, etc.

five feet long

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Katie Singer's Jewelry - New Guinea brideprice shell necklace

Katie Singer's Jewelry - New Guinea turtle shell necklace

New Guinea turtle shell

handwoven cord

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19th century Chinese jade dragon

handwoven cord

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Katie Singer's Jewelry - Chinese jade dragon necklace

Katie Singer's Jewelry - African brass and abanene nut necklace

African brass

and abanene nuts

handwoven cord

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Nagaland (India) jasper

African copper and glass

handwoven cord 

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Katie Singer's Jewelry - Nagaland jasper necklace

Katie Singer's Jewelry - Thai glass bead necklace

1,000 year-old glass beads
from the area now called Thailand

Vermeil gold

handwoven cord

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abalone buttons from Pakistan

handwoven cord

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Katie Singer's Jewelry - Pakistani abalone button necklace

Katie Singer's Jewelry - Ethiopian silver necklace

Ethiopian silver

button is Moroccan amber

handwoven cord

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jade burial bead – “money for heaven”

from the area now considered
the border of China + Myanmar

handwoven cord

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Katie Singer's Jewelry - jade burial bead necklace

Katie Singer's Jewelry - Indian carnelian necklace

old agates + carnelian from India

African brass

handwoven cord

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old Czech glass

old silver from India

handwoven cord

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Katie Singer's Jewelry - old Czech glass necklace

Katie Singer's Jewelry - carnelian bead necklace

ancient carnelian beads

old silver from around India

handwoven cord

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Hebron stones, 4,000 years old

Vermeil gold

handwoven cord


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Katie Singer's Jewelry - Hebron stone necklace

Katie Singer's Jewelry - New Guinea pearl shell necklace

piece of a New Guinea shell

handwoven cord

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African snake spine

crocodile teeth and cowrie shells from New Guinea

old Chinese turquoise bead

handwoven cord


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Katie Singer Jewelry - African snake spine necklace


African jasper beads  (the traders told me they're 300 years old)

African and Turkman bronze

handwoven cord


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bronze beads, likely from Cameroon

handwoven cord


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Katie Singer Jewelry - bronze bead necklace

Katie Singer Jewelry - tea-stained bead necklace

tea-stained beads from Thailand

old Chinese turquoise

bronze spacers

handwoven cord


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African snake spine

rock from Ibiza supplied by commissioner

handwoven cord


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Katie Singer Jewelry - African snake spine necklace

Katie Singer jewelry - New Guinea brideprice shells

brideprice shells from New Guinea

handwoven cord


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brideprice heishi from New Guinea

shell found in Florida

handwoven buttonhole


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Katie Singer's Jewelry - brideprice heishi and shell necklace

Katie Singer's Jewelry - Turkman amulets necklace

Turkman amulets on a rope

for a goat

hemp woven

over frayed cord


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heart rocks

from Michigan

handwoven cord


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Katie Singer's Jewelry - heart rocks necklace
Katie Singer's Jewelry - New Guinea kwalia shells necklace

New Guinea kwalia shells (they're used as money by New Guinea women)

handwoven cord


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old Navajo silver beads

handwoven cord


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Katie Singer's Jewelry - old Navajo silver bead necklace
Katie Singer's Jewelry - African jasper and bronze necklace

African jasper and bronze

handwoven cord


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New Guinea shell hairpiece

kwalia shell

handwoven cord


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Katie Singer's Jewelry - Tuareg hairpiece and kwalia shell necklace
Katie Singer's Jewelry - green jade necklace

green jade found circa 2001 at the border of what's now Burma and China while a new road was built

about 5,000 years old, this jade would be placed on a dead body during burial to provide money for heaven.

handwoven cord


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Prices are available on request. If you're interested in commissioning a piece, please email katie@katiesinger.com. (She checks email only once or twice a week. Her phone number is listed in Santa Fe, New Mexico.)


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