Jewelry – Red Rocks Art Studio

Part of our Lore with the Mountain Mans’ existence comes from our love of natural form and native designs that create our custom trade beaded Necklaces. Below are His and Hers Bear Claw and Millefiori beaded necklaces made on commission by Jerry D. Neri and Tim Q. Johnson. We work together at Red Rocks Art Studio to produce these custom designs. The Trade Beads are historic and most range from the 19th Century where they were made in European Cities like Venice Italy.

Bear Claw and Millefiori Trade Bead Necklace with bone and buffalo Hair Pipe plus brass beads.

The Italian Millefiori, or Thousand Flowers bead, is made of individual canes made of six layered Chevrons cut into beads and then fused into a background of glass piping thus forming a long cane. These Venetian beads are early Nineteenth-Century Trade beads that I have collected for over thirty years. Below are pictured two Yellow with Green and White Matching Millefiori trade beads made for a his and hers necklace set.

Nineteenth Century Millefiori beads used in a Necklace. — White, Green, and Yellow matching Millefiori Beaded Necklaces with Bone, Buffalo Hair Pipe and White Hearts of yellow and green Pony Beads.

During the past thirty years more and more people have become interested in period bead collecting such as the romantic period of the First Traders and Mountain Men in the early Nineteenth Century. Pictured below are Trade Beads dating back from the Sixteenth to early Nineteenth-Century.

Sixteenth Century to Nineteenth Century Trade Beads — Sixteenth Century seven-layer Chevron to Nineteenth Century Trade Beads. Including Hudson Bay, Venetian Glass, Feather and Ghost, Beads.

Contemporary Trade Beads with old Sixteenth-Century Chevron, Rare Cane Chevron, Red Skunk Beads, and rare Black Chevron with Feather Beads.

A seven layered sixteenth-Century Chevron Trade Bead from Venice, Italy. — Sixteenth Century seven-layer Chevron Trade Bead from Venice, Italy.

Chevron beads, Venetian Glass beads, Czechoslovakian glass beads — Contemporary Trade Beads of Chevrons, rare Cane Chevron, Feather beads Venetian Glass, Czechoslovakian beads with Watermelon Beads from Africa.

Featured below are some of our Contemporary Mountain Man Designs.

Skunk Beads and Earrings — Contemporary Skunk Beaded Necklace with matching Earrings.

Matching rear Claws of a Mountain Lion Necklace — Rear Claws of a Mountain Lion in matching Necklaces.

Blond Grizzly Bear Claw Necklace. — The Blond Rear Grizzly Bear Claw Necklace with amber colored horn Hair Pipe.

Mink Skull, Red Skull Bead Necklace. — A Mink Skull with a Red Skull Bead Necklace with bone Hair Pipe and Red White Hearts.

Mink Face Medicine Bag — Mink Medicine Bag with Pheasant Feathers, Brass Pony Beads and White Deer Fringe.

Millefiori Necklace with Feathers. — Yellow, Green, White, Millefiori Bead Necklace with Colorful Matching Feathers.