{"title":"Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo be met as you are. Not the kind of love you have to perform for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix pieces, and between them four stones. Garnet takes its name from the pomegranate and was given as a keepsake between people who expected to be apart for a while — rhodolite is its softer, raspberry end. Star ruby carries a six-rayed line that only shows under a single light source, so you have to hold it right to find it, which is a fair description of the thing itself. Amethyst is here for the people who are the reliable one. Moissanite came out of a meteorite crater and throws more colour than a diamond does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRings, a necklace and a set. All 925 sterling silver, made after you order, up to twenty days.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"rhodolite-garnet-butterfly-ring","title":"The Turning Wing — Rhodolite Garnet Butterfly Ring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA stone for the light you take with you, not the one you leave behind.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGarnet is named after a fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGranatum\u003c\/em\u003e — the pomegranate. Break one open and the seeds are exactly this: dozens of small dark-red translucent things packed in tight, catching the light. Whoever named it had held both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich puts the stone straight into the oldest story about eating something you were told not to. Persephone takes six seeds in the underworld and it costs her half of every year. The pomegranate is never innocent in these stories. It is the thing you wanted, and the price, in the same hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen there is the lantern. Rabbinic commentary on Genesis holds that the only light Noah had through the flood was a single stone, hung from the ceiling of the ark, glowing for a year while it rained. Later retellings name it as garnet. It is not in the text. It is what people decided the text needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stone for the light you take with you, not the one you leave behind.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis particular garnet is rhodolite — from the Greek \u003cem\u003erhodon\u003c\/em\u003e, rose. It was identified in 1882 in Cowee Valley, North Carolina, by a mineralogist who realised the local purple-red garnets were their own thing. Barely a century and a half old as a name, which for a garnet makes it new.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe setting is a butterfly, and the band is adjustable — which I want to be honest about: adjustable means you can wear it on more than one finger and change your mind on a warm day. It also means it is not a ring you should keep bending back and forth for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver, blackened, with gold plating on the butterfly. Made after you order it, up to twenty days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e£219 at launch, £249 after.\u003c\/strong\u003e Rhodolite of this colour and this size is the most expensive material in the first collection and I did not want to make it cheaper by using less of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural rhodolite garnet — 6×9 mm pear and 5×7 mm marquise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCubic zirconia accent stones on the butterfly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver, blackened, with gold plating\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdjustable band\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade to order, up to 20 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGarnet has been carried for centuries as a stone of the heart and of safe return. Some people feel something. Some don't. 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I nearly did not include a set in a first collection, because sets can look like a shop trying to increase a basket.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI kept it because this particular motif is the one that earns being repeated. A single butterfly is a decoration. Several of them is a migration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating, natural amethyst. Made after you order it, up to twenty days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e£309 at launch, £349 after\u003c\/strong\u003e — for the whole set. 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