Elena Adams Designs – News

I’ve been building up a good slave earring collection in the last few months. “Slave Earrings” is one of my most successful keyword searches on Google and they’re definitely my best sellers. I’ve been adding a lot of single strand earrings like these Sterling Silver Malachite Slave Earrings with Butterfly Charms, so I thought it was time to try something a little more elaborate.

Sterling silver slave earrings with multiple strands of chain and garnet.

I bought a pack of layered ear cuffs a few weeks ago and thought they’d be the perfect start to a multiple stranded pair of slave earrings. I knew I wanted a single strand of just wire-wrapped garnet, so started with that connecting the cuff to the post with the standard length. Next I added two strands of fine sterling silver chain, and dropped rose-toned garnet rounds from the lower one. The middle strand looked a little bare, so I wrapped in pretty, cushion-cut garnets at odd spacings.

I’m never entirely sure on what to add to the second post. It usually becomes obvious as the design progresses, but I usually keep them short, so it doesn’t verge on early ’90s tacky. With the extra strands in these slave earrings, I decided to push it a little longer than usual and added a short stretch of chain along with two garnet beads to carry the design over to the other ear.

See the new Sterling Silver Multi-Strand Garnet Slave Earrings here.

You may have also noticed that I’ve split slave earrings into their own category. There are plenty of shopper who are looking specifically for them, so I thought they deserved their own home. You’ll still see them scattered through the regular Earrings page, but now you can find all the sterling silver slave earrings here.

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