Today I managed to make my delayed trip to The British Museum to see their Treasures of Heaven exhibition.

My favourite piece, from a jewellery maker's eye, was this striking necklace which is designed to hold small artefacts. You can learn more about the necklace here.

I was pleased to see that the 'chain' of the necklace looks as though it is made using Viking Weave. Glad to see some things don't change in jewellery making. Viking Weave is perfect for this and looks beautiful so I guess if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

One annoying thing about the exhibition, in my eyes as a jewellery maker, was that nowhere did there seem to be any infomation about how the pieces were made. Every label mentioned whose remains were in the piece etc but nothing about how it was made. I even noticed on some pieces that materials (such as what looked like embroidered cloth) were left out of the materials lists. But I guess not everyone was wandering around looking at it through the same eyes as we were.

There were many beautiful things to look at, in fact by the end the combination of so much to see and our eyes constantly having to change from very dark to very bright light meant I was all reliquaried out.

A quick visit to the book shop on the way out and I was ready for home and itching to start some new beading.

For years now I have had an idea for a stiff, basic triangular bangle which spirals around. Simple enough an idea, but I fear that actually producing it in beadwork may prove to be impossible.

The first stumbling block is making a triangular tube. If you bead a tube, even though it may start out triangular and continue to have the same number of beads added in the same way etc, it will naturally turn into a round tube. For a long time I have pondered how to alter this and, although I worked out a method I thought would work a few years ago, it's taken me this long to put needle to thread and try it out.

My first attempt gave me the stiff triangle I wanted but the technique left too much 'scarring' on the surface of the beadwork which I wasn't happy with.

As I beaded this I realised that there was a much simpler way of doing what I wanted and also that the size tube I was beading was too large for the finished look I wanted. Cue a new attempt.

My second attempt went much better and, as you can hopefully see, I managed to produce a triangular tube which holds it shape but is completely hollow- I was so pleased!

Except it holds its shape a little too well. It's just too stiff to bend nicely into a bangle. So back to square one.

A bit more experimenting later I realised how I could make the tube but give it that little bit of movement it needs to bend. Except of course I haven't yet beaded a length long enough to see if it works. Just another 5 or so hours and I'll see if this experiment works...