There are a number of fun and clever resin jewelry tutorials to create what looks like rain or water drops! Clear fishing line is used to help with the illusion. 

First up is the tutorial from @arty_creations170 who uses UV resin. She adds the resin drops on a silicone sheet and then adds short lengths of fishing line before curing. Her method of grouping the strands for a tidy capped ending is lovely. 

Please make sure you use adequate ventilation for UV resin work because there is usually a lot of off gassing in a short period of time.



A much quicker way is demonstrated by this tutorial from @HeyClear-Studio where the resin drops are placed onto prepared lengths of fishing line. 


You can also use regular epoxy resin which takes longer to cure - it usually sets up in about two hours.  It fully cures over 24 hours.  The demonstrator of this tutorial by @AyrikResin also mentioned in one of the replies that nail polish enamel will also work. I like the idea of placing the fishing line across a cardboard box. Neat!


The Auspicious Rain Dance

I enjoy China's annual Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) gala performances. Remember the amazing aerial koi fish dance which I shared sometime ago? The Spring Festival is not just a cultural festival but an agricultural celebration. (Note : It is incorrect to call this Lunar New Year. It is actually a Lunisolar new year. Other cultures also celebrate around the same time but they call and practice their New Year celebrations differently. It's Tet in Vietnam, Soellal in Korea etc.)

Well, this year's gala included this beautiful Auspicious Rain dance (besides dazzling the martial arts robots performance). It's inspired by the rain of early spring. In the past people believed that this rain was a blessed sign that nature was beginning to blossom again after winter. 

The dancers' movements are gentle and soft like spring rain. They wear large Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) inspired veiled hats called weimao, which were likely worn to protect against wind and sand when out and about, At the beginning of the dance, the hats with long crystal strands at the edges slowly descend onto the stage to the dancers. The dancers then gracefully move and twirl flaring out the strands. Each hat weighed about 5.5 lbs. The background changed from green to gold signifying the full agricultural cycle of spring to autumn harvest. 

The performance was also inspired by the Tang Dynasty poet sage, Du Fu who wrote about the rain :
A good rain knows when to call
In springtime it will fall


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