For love

Burning Heart — Garnet Heart Ring

Named after the pomegranate — the oldest story there is about wanting something.

A red garnet held inside a flame — or a heart, depending on where you stop looking. The pavé runs up one side in red, a gold leaf folds over the top, and the band twists away like a burnt stem.

£129.00~~£149.00~~

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

Garnet was the stone travellers carried in the medieval world: it was said to hold a light of its own in the dark. It does not, but people carried it anyway, which is the more interesting fact.

Materials

Natural red garnet, 6 × 6 mm
Red cubic zirconia pavé
Solid 925 sterling silver, black rhodium and gold-tone plated details

Made to order.

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Seen closer

Burning Heart — Garnet Heart Ring

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

01 Garnet heart ring on a blackened branch band

03 Garnet heart ring, side profile

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What it has been carried for

Garnet

Named after a fruit, and carrying the oldest story there is about wanting something.

01
The one everybody knows
Safe return

Roman travellers carried it. So did soldiers, and later anyone setting out on a road they were not sure of. The idea is not protection from harm - it is coming back.
Roman and medieval travel custom
02
Less known
The pomegranate

Granatum. Break one open and the seeds are exactly this - dozens of small dark-red translucent things packed tight. Which puts it straight into Persephone’s six seeds: the thing you wanted, and the price, in the same hand.
Latin, and older than Latin
03
Almost nobody knows
The only light

Rabbinic commentary on Genesis holds that the single light Noah had through the flood was a stone hung from the ceiling of the ark, glowing for a year while it rained. It is not in the text. It is what people decided the text needed.
Talmudic commentary, Sanhedrin

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

Garnet. 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 →