From the maker

IMPORTANT: This strand is One of a Kind based on the small quantity of pearls we sourced by hand and for that reason, recommend Express Shipping with Signature required upon delivery to ensure it arrives safely in your hands.

This strand is Ready To Ship and will leave the studio in 3 - 5 business days.

Details :

- This strand is comprised of oblong and round pearls as well as sterling silver beads. At its heart is our medium eye of protection pendant.

- At it's closure is our Medium Eye clasp, meant to be a talisman of comfort and protection.

- Approximately 23.5 inches in length including clasp

- Eye clasp, and jump rings are all solid sterling silver, hand oxidized to achieve our favorite gloomy grey and finished to highlight the shining silver beneath.

- The clasp is tactile in nature making it easily held between the tips of your fingers and rubbed for comfort in times of grief, anxiety, dissociation, as well as during moments of joy and wonder.

Pearls :

Have an ancient history of reverence as well as a long legacy of beauty. Pearls are formed when an external irritant, like a grain of sand, breaches the shell of an oyster or shelled mollusk. Once this irritant has gained entrance within the dark fleshy confines of the oyster, it goes to work protecting itself. If this irritant can’t be expelled, it begins to ‘bandage’ the grain, coating it with concentric rings of calcium carbonate, named ‘narce.’ Each layer that is built up forms the shape of the pearl, awash in a brilliant iridescence, a beauty born of a tiny trespass. Thusly, a pearl has at its center, the object of its creation, a foreign intruder.

I associate the pearl and its strange construction to so many things: the jellied caterpillar struggling within a chrysalis, its liquefied body forms a new winged shape. An embedded star smoldering within the shell of our hearts. An ink dot, a pin prick, a moon in miniature. History, who has always loved and revered the pearl, writes that we once believed pearls were the result of lightning striking the shell and penetrating the inner skins of the oyster. A small beauty made in duress, a ‘stone’ of initiation. To possess a pearl means to own something that is hidden, sacred.

Lore has it that Cleopatra, to win a wager with Antony, dissolved a large, exquisite pearl in her drinking glass. She swallowed it in one sip. I wonder about her dreams that night.

Please note that these pearls are entirely natural and earth made. The color and clarity will vary from bead to bead; every one of them has been hand selected for its quality and beauty.