Troll's Spindle

This was my final project in my Craft/Material Studies Project class. The assignment was to just make a piece of wearable art. Pretty broad, huh? 

Well, I decided I wanted to do something that involved constricting the movement of hands. So I look up some bondage techniques and found a nice one called "The Dragonfly." 

Intrigued, I looked up some information on dragonflies. There are interestingly quite a few myths and legends all around the world about dragonflies. A continuing thread in European legends was that they were evil and even the devil's servants. There was also a continuing sewing theme. One myth explained that dragonflies were used by trolls as spindles. Then another one said that dragonflies follow serpents and when they get hurt the dragonflies would sew up their wounds. 

So playing off the sewing and spindle ideas I created this piece of "wearable art".

I'll post some better pictures once my professor e-mails them to me.