Zenith Adriana

I've made this happiness and friendship talisman for Iva, my best friend, as a thank you for always being there for me.

As you probably noticed, I used the elder futhark alphabet and runebinded:

Gebo (Gift) Letter: G for giving & receiving

Wunjo (Joy) Letter: W for fulfillment of wishes

Isa (Ice) Letter: I for a good standstill

The additional rune on the necklace and earrings is:

Sowulo (Sun) Letter: S for victory, success or other favorable circumstances

Items needed:

A small 5 cm x 0.8-0.9 cm branch with soft interior

Saw

Sandpaper

Pyrography tool kit

Lacquer

Findings - Silver this time

How to make it:

1. Cut the talisman piece of about 5 cm and each earring piece of about 0.3-0.4 cm. Scoop out the soft interior.





2. Draw the design with a pencil and then engrave it with the pyrography tool.





3. Apply lacquer and let it dry. I used 3 coatings.









4. Attach the findings. For this set I used the silver ones because they matched very well with the silverish wood bark color.





Happiness and Friendship, Woodburn on unknown wood, 2015, Zenith Adi

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The artwork I love the most: my first necklace made a few years ago. Its meaning is Zenith, written in ogham.





Items needed:

Drilling machine

Sandpaper

Saw

Piece of wood

Leather string

1.Find a nice 1-1.2 cm thick branch. I used a pine wood.





2. Sand it and drill holes for the string.






3. Engrave it.










Zenith, 2011, Pyrography on pine wood, Zenith Adi

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This is my first attempt at rune binding. A good friend of mine, Adam, is starting a new life so I made him a bind rune for peace and happiness. Hope you like the artwork at least as much as it pleased me making it.

A bind rune is a ligature of two or more runes. They are extremely rare in Viking Age inscriptions, but are common in pre-Viking Age (Proto-Norse) and in post-Viking Age (medieval) inscriptions.
There are two types of bind runes.

Normal bind runes are formed of two (or rarely three) adjacent runes which are joined together to form a single conjoined glyph, usually sharing a common vertical stroke. I used this type.

Another type of bind rune called a same-stave rune, formed by several runic letters written sequentially along a long common stemline. The long bind rune stemline may be incorporated into an image on the rune stone, for example as a ship's mast on runestones. I'll use this when I'll build my own boat :D

For this project I used 3 elder futark runes:

Wunjo (Joy) Letter: W Satisfaction; Happiness, general success and recognition of worth.

Berkana (Birch) Letter: B Renewal; Healing, recovery, physical or spiritual regeneration, a new growth from old roots.

Kenaz (Tourch) Letter: K Guidance; Creativity, and the strengthening of abilities in all realms.

Items needed:

drill bit without a drilling machine

a small, hollow twig

sandpaper

pyrography tool kit

How to make it:

1. Find a twig with a soft interior.





2. Cut a 4-5 cm piece from the branch and scoop out the soft interior.





3. Engrave it.





4. And voila! To make the wood stay in place on the string it is best to twist the string a bit and then the pull it through the pendant.





Peace and happiness, 2015, Unknown wood, Zenith Adi

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