Carried for
From the Root — Rhodolite Garnet Tree Ring
History and folklore, offered as such.
Every culture that drew a tree drew it reaching in both directions.
Made after you order it · up to 20 days · 925 sterling silver
- 01 A stone is chosen for your order by hand, held to the light.
- 02 It is set in solid silver, 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
Assyrian palace walls, ninth century BC. Winged figures stand either side of a stylised tree, holding a bucket and a cone, doing something to it that scholars have argued about for a hundred and fifty years — fertilising, blessing, tending. Nobody is certain. What is certain is that the tree is at the centre and the kings put it there.
The same shape keeps arriving. Yggdrasil holding nine worlds together. The tree in Eden with two names. The one in the Qur'an that is neither of the east nor of the west. Cultures that never met each other reached for the same diagram.
Every culture that drew a tree drew it reaching in both directions — as much root as branch, the same amount of the thing hidden as shown.
That is the form here, in silver, spanning two fingers, with rhodolite garnet set into it like fruit.
I will be straight with you about this one. It is the boldest piece in the collection and it is not for every day. A double-finger ring changes how you use your hand; you notice it constantly for the first hour and then you forget, and then somebody in a shop asks you about it.
It is also the piece I would put in a photograph if I only got one.
Rhodolite garnet, from the Greek rhodon — rose. 925 sterling silver with gold plating, hand-finished at every leaf. Made after you order it, up to twenty days.
£219 at launch, £249 after. There is more bench time in this than in anything else here, and it is the piece I most want seen.
Materials
- Natural rhodolite garnet — 4×6 mm (0.6 ct) and 3×5 mm (0.31 ct)
- Green nano peridot accent stones — laboratory-grown
- 925 sterling silver with gold plating
- Double-finger form, adjustable
- Made to order, up to 20 days
Garnet has been carried for centuries as a stone of nerve and safe return. Some people feel something. Some don't. If you don't, it is still four thousand years of the same drawing.
From the Root — Rhodolite Garnet Tree Ring
Every frame is the piece itself, photographed as it is — garnet, set in solid sterling silver.
Garnet
Named after a fruit, and carrying the oldest story there is about wanting something.
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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 -
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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 -
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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
Everything we can tell you
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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”.
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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 → -
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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. This one has an open band, so there is no size to choose.
Making & delivery → -
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Size & fit
Open band — adjust gently at the back of the shank, never over the stones.
How to measure at home →
- Free UK delivery
- 30-day returns
- Hallmarked 925 silver
- Nickel-safe fittings
- Gift box included
