{"title":"Garden of ASI8","description":"\u003cp\u003eBees, flowers, branches. A garden only pays because something works it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree pieces: a chrome diopside flower on a blackened band, a citrine butterfly on an open ring, and the bee garden — peridot, amethyst and topaz set among gold-plated bees and leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the ones where the silver is doing as much as the stone. Every leaf edge is finished separately, which is where the hours go. 925 sterling silver, natural stones, made to order.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bee-garden-multi-stone-ring","title":"The Garden Rule — Amethyst, Peridot \u0026 Topaz Ring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome of it never belonged to this planet at all.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is an island in the Red Sea that the Egyptians worked for three and a half thousand years, and for most of that time they did it at night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZabargad. Topazios to the Greeks, which is where the word topaz comes from — except the island never produced topaz. It produced peridot. The naming has been wrong since antiquity and nobody has managed to fix it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey mined it after dark because peridot is hard to spot in daylight and shows itself under a lamp. Miners marked the stones at night and dug them out in the morning. The island was guarded; the penalty for landing on it without permission was death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA good deal of what Cleopatra was said to wear as emerald was almost certainly peridot from that island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the part that still stops me. Peridot is olivine, and olivine forms far down in the earth's mantle under pressure that does not exist at the surface. It arrives here by volcano. It also arrives here by meteorite — pallasites, iron meteorites shot through with olivine crystals, fall to earth carrying gem peridot formed at the core of a shattered planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSome of it never belonged to this planet at all.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis ring is a garden. Amethyst, peridot and topaz set among bees and flowers in silver — the peridot is the green you keep coming back to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI nearly left this one out of the collection for being too much. I kept it because too much is occasionally the correct amount, and because the bee is not decoration here: a bee is the only reason a garden pays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating on the bees and flowers. Made after you order it, up to twenty days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e£169 at launch, £189 after\u003c\/strong\u003e — for three natural stones and this much bench time. The band is wide and every flower on it is finished separately, which is where the hours went.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural peridot 4×6 mm, natural amethyst 4×6 mm, natural sky blue topaz 4×6 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSynthetic ruby accent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade to order, up to 20 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeridot has been carried as a stone of prosperity since before Rome. Some people feel something. Some don't. If you don't, you are still wearing the mantle of the earth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asi8","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49038640447658,"sku":"ASI8-PER-002","price":179.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/3313\/2970\/files\/p02a.jpg?v=1786491298"},{"product_id":"citrine-butterfly-floral-open-ring","title":"The Flower of Plenty — Citrine Butterfly Ring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe merchant's stone. Kept where money was counted.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCitrine has been called the merchant's stone for so long that the reason has almost been forgotten. It is not poetic. Traders kept it in the till.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe logic was plain: a yellow stone the colour of gold, kept where money was counted, on the principle that like calls to like. It was in cash boxes, in ledger drawers, sewn into the lining of a coat that carried takings home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is one of the very few stones whose folklore is about commerce rather than love or war, and I find that refreshing. Every other stone in this collection is about how you feel. This one is about what you are owed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuartz is hard enough to be worn without ceremony — 7 on the Mohs scale, the same as the sand that scratches everything softer than it. A ring you can put on in the morning without thinking about it, which is the point of a stone you keep near the money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe merchant's stone was for the ordinary Tuesday, not the occasion.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe setting is open floral silver with a butterfly, and the citrine sits where a bud would. Open band, so a little give in the fit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating on the butterfly. Made after you order it, up to twenty days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e£199 at launch, £219 after.\u003c\/strong\u003e Priced for the silver work, which is where the hours actually went.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural citrine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpen band — adjusts a little\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade to order, up to 20 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTraditionally kept where money was counted. Some people feel something. Some don't. If you don't, it is still the only stone in the collection with a head for business.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asi8","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49038643265706,"sku":"ASI8-CIT-005","price":189.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/3313\/2970\/files\/p05a.jpg?v=1786491298"},{"product_id":"chrome-diopside-flower-ring","title":"Dark Shoot — Chrome Diopside Flower Ring","description":"\u003cp\u003eChrome diopside is a green that reads almost black in low light and turns emerald under a lamp. Here it is massed into a flower head with a gold bee landing on the edge, on a band shaped like a cut branch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stone comes mainly from Siberia and is mined in a short window each year, when the ground is hard enough to work. It is not a substitute for emerald; it is a different, darker green.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural chrome diopside, 4 × 6 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNano emerald-green pavé\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolid 925 sterling silver, black rhodium and gold-tone plated details\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade to order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asi8","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49045092335786,"sku":null,"price":189.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/3313\/2970\/files\/41-1.jpg?v=1786612740"}],"url":"https:\/\/asieight.com\/collections\/garden-of-asi8.oembed","provider":"Asi8","version":"1.0","type":"link"}