I really don’t like clasps. So I am always daydreaming about ways to make bracelets and necklaces that side-step the issue completely. Lately, I have been playing with a new necklace design that comprises linked components that collapse on eachother so that a necklace can just slide over your head, but not hang too loosely around the neck.
I have been trying a few different three-sided triangular elements, in both black and natural flax paper shrunk over flexible steel armatures.
Here are two of the first stabs at it.