Image credit: NMT, SumofThree Gemstones

Uploader comment: I completed this piece this afternoon and I've been working on it for a little while. A few days. My boyfriend's best friend has a "thing" for Slave bracelets, and in Western culture, it's a bracelet with a ring attached to it. Mainly, slave bracelets are popular in the umm, BDSM culture--something I have NO interest in (nor does the person this is a gift for) or the Gothic culture and they are typically made of metal links. Their real origin is Saharan Africa, for which slavers would trade copper bracelets for slaves. They were a kind of currency. This one is completely peyote and ndebele stitched one bead at a time. The bracelet portion has thousands of TINY little beads stitched one by one. The gold beads are even smaller, and are solid 22k gold. This will be a for my boyfriends best friend. She's collected Slave Bracelets for 25 years and wears them fairly regularly as well. I hope she likes this piece knowing her best bud had it made for her