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clockwork-zero β Steampunk Jewel Insect Wings
Published: 2009-09-08 13:49:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 21899; Favourites: 589; Downloads: 1140
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This incredible necklace is made with actual beetle wings - that are naturally a brilliant chrome green colour. They are "green Jewel Beetle" wings - from the family Buprestidae and have been used for hundreds of years as jewelry.This is the much more updated use of them - a combination of cyberpunk meets steampunk and goth. I can imagine it as part of an elaborate costume worn by the Queen of the Insects. Or perhaps an avid beetle fan - or an entomologist.
I'm certain some might find wearing beetle wings a bit scary but they are so beautiful and truly unusual. The one element of this necklace that really makes amazing is the clicking sound the wings make as they move. Really! It sounds chitonous. more details here on my clockworkzero.etsy site: [link]
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The colors on the beetles wings are so bold. Nature sure is awesome.
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Wow! very cool looking piece of jewelry art, the colors are awesome!
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Absolutely beautiful, but I'd be so paranoid about setting it down someplace and accidentally crushing it! Really like the combination of natural and mechanical in this, with the wings and gears... Depending on which way you look at it, it could be worn with tons of different styles and still match perfectly.
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"Opening the chest you find...(Blah Blah Blah) and a necklace."
"What's it look like?"
"This."
*Awe* "I'm going to find the owner. Nothing this pretty would be forgotten"
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Excuse me miss, could you tell me where I might be able to buy some of these?
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that necklace is amaaazzziiinggggg i LOVE it.
i like using bones as well... i have a wind chime made out of deer bones. it doesnt sound very pretty but it looks cool.
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That is so prettyβ₯. I wonder how you got the wings. By the way,it me Filae. ^^
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This is so great! I recently made a pair of earrings out of some similar Thai beetle wings, and I'm glad to see these interesting objects are the focal point of more jewelry.
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It is SO beautiful 
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I am so going to watch your etsy account and this one. If you ever make anything like this again I am for sure going to purchase one
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this is gorgeous! im curious. do you just find alot of those beetles in your location or can you purchase the wings somewhere? O_o i saw them growing up but.. you know.. once a year XD hardly enough to gain any kind of collection.
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Now that is freaking awesome!!! Unusual - and beautiful!!! Love it!
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Lovely, these beetles roam all over Thailand and I usually find them when ever I travel there and shake some stocks of bamboo. My mother always told me of this kind of jewelry, but I never did look around for it. But this is truly amazing, in its own classy, and thought responsive way. Congrats on the fine art!
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Can you imagine making and entire shirt out of these and some of the other colors.
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wow, I am at a loss of words. thats really wicked!
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lol i have tons of those beetles around my house....now i know what to do with the little corpses that appear everywhere.
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that's cool! what kind of beetle is that from?
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Where on earth do you procure such beautiful wing covers?
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Goddamn I would totally get that if I had the funds
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I've featured this in my journal here: [link]
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I fall in love with it! where can I find these beetle wings======???????
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I've got a cicada in the car, trying to figure out the best thing to do with the wings. 
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I adore your beetle-wing necklaces. This one is particularly elegant-looking. Very regal, very beautiful. Are beetle wings hard to work with? I imagine they'd be rather fragile...
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Oh holy crap, these are just marvelous. Another artistic triumph from you <333
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the wings are really beautiful! and the jewel in the middle helps bring it out.
and the intricate designs on the base is very beautiful!
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thats kind of how i felt. lol. its creepy / halloween ish sorta. creepy drilling out beetle wings!
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OMG this is soooo awesome and beautiful!!!!!! Great work!
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wow. those are beautiful. very beautiful....
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Thank you so much! I've got a simpler version I'm working on now too. I love the shade of green.
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i may have to purhcase one of these at some point. i'm so very impressed....
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I've always wondered how you manage to put holes in the wings like that without SHATTERING THEM INTO OBLIVION. Are they tougher than I think, or are you just really careful? Enlighten plzkthx :3
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I basically use my dremmel - with its little drill press. I think it helps that I keep the bits very sharp and go slowly. They are actually quite strong - about like fingernails. The wings naturally have a bit of a divot in them where I drill which makes it easier - but I've drilled through them everywhere without issue. I actually am doing some "jewel" inserts in them today.
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wow thats amazing. creepy. but amazing. where did you get the wings?
i found a dead blue metallic fly in my moms pool the other day and i kept him. he's too tiny for earrings though but his head rocks back and forth and i made him sing to my daughter. lol
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omg..you are like me!
I have a dragonfly with a wobbly head. I call him "corpsy the dragonfly".
LOL.. make him sing!
that really makes me laugh.
I love people on DA!
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haha! yep twisted individuals who know how to have REAL fun. lol
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