Viking Age women's dress often used a pair of oval brooches to hold up a strap dress, with decorative chains or strings of beads — known as festoons — hung between them. Finds from sites like Birka in Sweden show these bead festoons in a range of materials, from glass and amber to semi-precious stones.
This piece reinterprets that layered festoon style as a two-row chain set with tiger's eye and garnet-toned stones, finished with a brooch-style clasp at the top. Cast in zinc alloy, it's designed to be worn as a statement layered necklace rather than a strict historical reproduction.
