TUTORIAL: Ouroboros Beaded Hoop Earrings Beading Pattern

Ouroboros is a symbol of eternal cyclic renewal or a cycle of life, death and rebirth.
This is the ancient Egyptian symbol of which it is said: It slays, weds, and impregnates himself. It is man and woman, begetting and conceiving, devouring and giving birth, active and passive, above and below, at once. 
As symbol of the origin and of the opposites in it the ouroboros the “Great Round” in which positive and negative, male and female, elements of consciousness, elements hostile to consciousness and unconscious elements are intermingled…


This beading pattern is fun to make…learn how to make beaded circle from the herringbone rope and how to make the tiny serpent’s head. The seed beads I use: Delica #11, Toho #11 and Rocaille #15 size glass seed beads. And I’m using the simple tubular peyote and herringbone rope stitches.