1st Annual - Danse Macabre Blog Hop - 17th. October
2015
Dear Lee, our
hostess, thank you so much for organizing this special Blog Hop so well,
in
spite of your health issues, you did a great job. Wishing you all the best!
For all my
American / English FB-Friends, this will
be a very awkward blog post maybe...
Where’s
the special Halloween part, the pumpkins, the skulls, spider webs?
Well, here
in The Netherlands we don’t (yet) celebrate it in that spectacular, playful
and colourful way as in other parts of the world… So nothing like that today!
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Danse Macabre a Chapelle in Brittany painted between1483 and 1501
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I did some
research into history (-: According
to the legend, "Death" appears at
midnight every year on Halloween. “Death” calls for the dead from their graves to
dance for him while
he plays his fiddle (represented by a solo
violin).
His skeletons dance for him until the rooster crows at dawn, when they
must return
to their graves until the next year…
“Death” dances with everybody, the rich and the poor,
a queen, a maid, a pope,
an emperor, a king,
child, and a labourer...
Danse Macabre, is
a piece of orchestral music, written in 1874 by the
French
composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on
the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death
unites all. Produced to remind people of the fragility of their lives and
how
vain were the glories of earthly life.
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That was my inspiration for designing a little little bracelet…
I used some
pearls, ruby’s, moonstone, lapis lazuli and sapphire to represent a queen or a
king,
pewter, lava stone and copper bead caps to represent the maid
and
some small pearls for the child…
Because of role
of the violin, I mixed a little sterling silver one in my design.
Enjoy the music of
Danse Macabre and my bracelet!
And have a Wonderful Happy Halloween!
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Here's the list with names ☼ of the other ☼ designers ☼
Lee Koopman
Strega Jewellry - our hostess
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