"It doesn't look all that fragile."
"Great lady, the cage is woven tight and solid. The casing has taken the blow of a sledgehammer with nary a scratch. Never, in the thirty years I have been constructing these charms, have any shattered, save at the will of their bearers."
"Then why warn me to be careful with it?"
"Because, great lady, such baubles have been known to rend the hearts of those who carry them."
--from "Lampwork, and Other Glass"
(inspired by a pendant by Elise Matthesen, after R. Sean Borgstrom)
"Great lady, the cage is woven tight and solid. The casing has taken the blow of a sledgehammer with nary a scratch. Never, in the thirty years I have been constructing these charms, have any shattered, save at the will of their bearers."
"Then why warn me to be careful with it?"
"Because, great lady, such baubles have been known to rend the hearts of those who carry them."
--from "Lampwork, and Other Glass"
(inspired by a pendant by Elise Matthesen, after R. Sean Borgstrom)