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Rough_Rock
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- May 22, 2018
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Hi all,
I'd really appreciate your help. I'm having my vintage jadeite bead necklace restrung professionally, as it's currently held together with modern nylon thread and the finishing is very low quality, especially the knotting near the clasp (see pics), and I'm unsure how to proceed. I'd like to have it restrung to the highest possible standard, but I'm unsure what to request they do to it. My main questions are:
1. Do I replace the faceted crystal rondelle spacers? A lot of them appear to be replacements themselves, and are of poorer quality. Therefore should I replace them all with equivalent modern replacements of a higher quality?
2. Do I request that they place a knot before and after each bead and rondelle? Or do I keep it as it currently is which is unknotted, and where the beads and spacers can move along the wire freely?
3. What thread material and colour would be best for this type of restringing? I'm worried that any opaque thread might be easily seen through the transparent crystal spacers.
4. What style of restringing would be most sympathetic to how this would have been strung originally?
5. Would it be wiser to ask them the restring the necklace as a single strand?
Images of the necklace in its current state can be found below:
I'd really appreciate your help. I'm having my vintage jadeite bead necklace restrung professionally, as it's currently held together with modern nylon thread and the finishing is very low quality, especially the knotting near the clasp (see pics), and I'm unsure how to proceed. I'd like to have it restrung to the highest possible standard, but I'm unsure what to request they do to it. My main questions are:
1. Do I replace the faceted crystal rondelle spacers? A lot of them appear to be replacements themselves, and are of poorer quality. Therefore should I replace them all with equivalent modern replacements of a higher quality?
2. Do I request that they place a knot before and after each bead and rondelle? Or do I keep it as it currently is which is unknotted, and where the beads and spacers can move along the wire freely?
3. What thread material and colour would be best for this type of restringing? I'm worried that any opaque thread might be easily seen through the transparent crystal spacers.
4. What style of restringing would be most sympathetic to how this would have been strung originally?
5. Would it be wiser to ask them the restring the necklace as a single strand?
Images of the necklace in its current state can be found below:
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