Newly Listed: Pink and Turquoise Pi Bracelet

After a winter that felt bleak and endless, it finally feels like spring will be here soon. I can tell I'm anticipating it by the colors I'm using lately: teal, pink, gold, turquoise, fire engine red. This pink and turquoise pi bracelet is a perfect example of that:

Pink and Turquoise Pi Bracelet by Kokoba

Is it just me? Is anyone else thirsty, almost dying, for color?

I think I'm still in my "button period." I love bead stringing, still, and I enjoy stretching my skill set with maille, but I love the look of these "floating" beads. I love the boho mulistrand look and I love the contrast between the beads and the threading material. When you use regular stringing wire, you usually go through a lot of work to hide the stringing material. But when you use cotton, or linen, or hemp, suddenly the stringing material is a key focal point.

I love that button. I saw it at the store, and loved the sparkly pink/teal 90s throwback vibe and bought the rest of their stock. Did I know what I was going to use them for? No. But then a few months later I bought those hot pink Czech glass beads and it all came together.

The only problem with the floating bead technique is: how can I account for 0? I work with pi mostly because it's everyone's favorite irrational number, but also because it's convenient in terms of design. Look at the first handful of digits:

3.14159265358...

That's about as far as I ever get in a piece, and usually I stop somewhere at "3.14159." There's not a zero in sight, so my philosophical quandary over how to represent 0 in this schema doesn't really apply. That gets hairier with Avogadro's number or G. So far, I've simply used a different color to function as 0 placeholders. It adds a nice accent and it fits the logical explanation of each digit being represented by X number of $color beads.

In this Avogadro's number bracelet, for example, the gold-colored beads are the 0 placeholders and the green wooden beads are the digits.

I've thought about using just knots as placeholders, too. I guess that's an aesthetic that could work, but I'm not sure.

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