This will be a miniature (under 3″) coptic-stitch fiber art book pendant with inlaid shell covers. Embroidered cotton pages are accented with scrimshaw on white shell plaques. 
I’m really happy with the technique I learned for scrimshaw on shell, and plan to use more of it in future books. This is a trial run.
The text: “Twilight Arc/Cleaves Day/From Night/Earth Shadow/Cast/On Air/In That/Opal Chasm/Bats and/Night-hawks/Flyte – twilight arc, MC 2016”
‘Twilight Arc‘ aka twilight arch or earthshadow, is simply the Earth’s shadow cast into the atmosphere, above the horizon opposite the sunset or sunrise.
‘Flyte‘ from our friends at Wikipedia: “Flyting is a ritual, poetic exchange of insults practiced mainly between the 5th and 16th centuries. The root is the Old English word flītan meaning quarrel (from Old Norse word flyta meaning provocation).”