Purple Root — Amethyst Branch Jewellery Set

For a clear head

Purple Root — Amethyst Branch Jewellery Set

Worn for nine hundred years by people other people were relying on.

Branches in blackened silver, budding gold leaves and marquise-cut amethyst. The earrings drop the length of a jaw; the ring runs along the finger rather than sitting on top of it.

£239.00~~£259.00~~

Made after you order it · up to 20 days · 925 sterling silver

Ring size

Not sure of your size? Measure it in two minutes

Two minutes with a strip of paper now saves three weeks later. Everything is made after you order, so a size change afterwards means starting again.

1. Cut a strip of paper about 5 mm wide.

2. Wrap it round the base of the finger — snug, but it should pass the knuckle with a little resistance.

3. Mark the overlap, lay it flat, measure in millimetres. Find that number in the circumference column below.

Ring size	Circumference	Inside ø	UK	EU
4.5	48.0 mm	15.3 mm	J	48
5	49.3 mm	15.7 mm	K	49
5.5	50.6 mm	16.1 mm	L	50
6	51.9 mm	16.5 mm	M	52
6.5	53.1 mm	16.9 mm	N	53
7	54.4 mm	17.3 mm	O	54
7.5	55.7 mm	17.7 mm	P	56
8	57.0 mm	18.1 mm	Q	57
8.5	58.3 mm	18.5 mm	R	58
9	59.5 mm	18.9 mm	S	60
9.5	60.8 mm	19.4 mm	T	61
10	62.1 mm	19.8 mm	U	62

Measure in the evening. Fingers are largest at the end of the day. Measuring at 8am in January is the single most common reason a ring turns out tight.
Between two sizes? Take the larger. A ring you cannot get off is a worse problem than one that turns.
Wide bands run small. 6 mm or wider, go up half a size.
Adjustable pieces need no size at all — they open a little and hold.

Not sure? Email your measurement to asi8@gmail.com and we will tell you which number to choose. We would far rather spend five minutes on that than remake a ring.

The millimetres are the inside circumference of the band. Between two sizes, take the larger.

Add the gift box Linen-lined, wax sealed, with the stone card set into the lid. +£25

01 A stone is chosen for your order by hand, held to the light.
02 It is set in solid silver and cut to your size, finished, and checked.
03 It rests, and is wrapped by hand with its card — the stone, and the date it was finished.
04 Dispatched with tracking. Up to twenty days.

Free delivery, no minimum
Tracked worldwide
14-day returns

The story

Blackened silver is oxidised, not painted — the surface is deliberately darkened so the gold and the amethyst have somewhere to stand against.

What is in the set

One pair of branch drop earrings
One matching branch ring

Materials

Natural amethyst, marquise cut
Nano emerald-green pavé
Solid 925 sterling silver, black rhodium and gold-tone plated details

Made to order. The ring is sized — give us your UK size at checkout.

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The Garden Rule — Amethyst, Peridot & Topaz Ring £179.00

Seen closer

Purple Root — Amethyst Branch Jewellery Set

Every frame is the piece itself, photographed as it is — amethyst, set in solid sterling silver.

01 Amethyst branch jewellery set: earrings and ring

04 Purple Root amethyst branch set, ring and earrings laid out together

05 Purple Root amethyst branch earrings, amethyst and nano emerald leaves

06 Purple Root amethyst branch ring, open band seen from above

Made after you order it Take this one

01 — 06 Drag, scroll or use ← →

What it has been carried for

Amethyst

Two and a half thousand years of being worn by people who had to keep their head.

01
The one everybody knows
Sobriety

The Greeks cut wine cups from it and drank all night on the belief that the stone would keep them clear. The name says it outright: a-methystos, not drunken.
Greek, from the 4th century BC
02
Less known
Office

From the early middle ages an amethyst sat in the ring a bishop wore, and it was kissed. Not pleasure denied - clear-headedness because other people were relying on you.
Latin church, 11th century onward
03
Almost nobody knows
Rank, lost

Until the 1700s it sat with ruby, emerald and sapphire in the top rank of stones. Brazil was opened, the price collapsed in a generation, and nothing about the stone had changed. Only how many there were.
Brazilian deposits, 18th-19th century

All of the above is history and folklore, written down because it is real and it is interesting. It is not a claim about what the stone will do. Some people feel something. Some don’t. More in The Codex

Before you decide

Everything we can tell you

01
The stone

Amethyst. What we know about the material in this piece is written on the page above, in the measurements we were given. Where a stone is lab-grown or treated we say so by name. We never call a treated stone natural, and we never use the phrase “semi-precious”.
Read what it has been carried for →
02
The metal

Solid 925 sterling silver. This design carries a plated finish over that silver. Plating is a surface, and it wears with time; the silver beneath it does not. We never plate base metal, and we never describe plating as solid gold.
How to keep it →
03
Made after you order

Nothing here sits in a warehouse. Work begins when the order does, and the piece takes up to 20 days before it ships. Your ring size is cut at that point, which is why we ask for it at checkout.
Making & delivery →
04
Size & fit

Ring sizes run 4.5 to 10 (UK J to U). Measure warm, at the end of the day, and take the reading three times.
How to measure at home →