In 1995, we hired a carpenter to add six of these windows to our family room. I was trying to re-create the feeling I remembered in the sunroom of my grandmother’s 1924 home.
The carpenter discovered my vintage bead collection and insisted I hang some in the new windows. There are six of these dust-collecting valances.
Each window took 40 hours to make from design to finish.
Below is a work-in-progress (for two years now… got side-tracked writing a book). There will be 104 strands total when it is finished, for a double window.
No, I do not make these to sell, either. But if there is enough interest, I will post detailed instructions… and sell the vintage beads, glass leaves, pendants, etc. to make one.