Gallery 2, Designed by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Beaded by Patti Large'
LA LLORONA NECKLACE
La Llorona Necklace pattern #13011 on Bead-Patterns.com .
Patti Large' likes to bead a spooky Halloween pattern for her friend and local beadstore manager, Susan, who has a Halloween birthday. This year I designed La Llorona for her. La Llorona is the Mexican ghost known as the Weeping or Wailing Woman. She is said to have been betrayed by a wealthy lover and in anger, drowned her children by him, and then herself. Because of this, she is doomed to forever wander the river crying for her lost children, unable to rest until she finds them once more. She is sort of a cautionary "boogie man" to scare children from straying too near the river lest La Llorona get them but she is also a tragic figure, and the subject of at least one very haunting Mexican folksong. Patti trimmed her strap with rattlesnake vertebrae to give it a really bony skeletal quality, but also to suggest the danger, the duende, death within life, that lurks for us all. Into the fringe of her tattered skirt, Patti strung more silvery teardrops but also made some little white bones of white bugle beads with two seed beads at each end. Susan, I'm told, is delighted with the result.
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