Making a bead chocker

In the winter I really like to wear large pieces of jewerly as they fit better against wool sweaters and so forth. I tend to wear turtlenecks and scarfs as I do tend to freeze a lot.
When I was younger, my mother had a chocker necklace in black. I really liked it, and now I decided to try my hand at making this type of a chocker, with black beads.

Then, for a bit of color, I added a glass pendant with a lot of color against a black backdrop. The beads are braided, but I do not know what the technique is called. It makes for very firm and at the same time elegant knots.

Grey, gold and blue necklace

I am loving this Kumihimo braiding, although it does take bit of time. Especially as I have to redo the braid ever so often in order to fix mistakes.
But here are a couple of pictures of my last project:

Here you can see the beading plate. I was extremely glad when I got the bobbins, the little plastic circles that helped med avoid tangles. I had so tangles at the start that it wasn't even funny!

 Here is the finished product. The grey thread is velvet and then there is a gold colored wire braided in.

I don't know if you see it here, but is very nice up close :-)