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A death in the family is always a traumatic time and when the dust has settled it’s natural to want something to remember your loved one by. I have quite a few commissions for remembrance jewellery, often including jewellery that has been passed down as an inheritance. I recently designed one such piece of jewellery for a client who had two diamond rings and an important saying of her Grandma’s, and it was around this that we designed a remembrance piece.
“I believe in the wind in the trees and the stars in the sky” was my client’s grandmother’s answer if she was ever asked her religion. So I designed a tree of life pendant, adopting an asymmetrical design to represent an off-beat and much-loved grandma. I set round brilliant diamonds among the tree-branches to represent the wind in the trees, and a larger diamond which belonged to her grandma, to represent a star in the sky. I used the gold from both rings, melted it down, refined and recast it, helping to keep the costs down as well as make the piece even more sentimental. I also used four-claw settings for the three smaller diamonds, to help them stand-out but a six-claw setting for the larger “star” diamond to help it appear more astral.
“I believe in the wind in the trees and the stars in the sky” was my client’s grandmother’s answer if she was ever asked her religion. So I designed a tree of life pendant, adopting an asymmetrical design to represent an off-beat and much-loved grandma. I set round brilliant diamonds among the tree-branches to represent the wind in the trees, and a larger diamond which belonged to her grandma, to represent a star in the sky. I used the gold from both rings, melted it down, refined and recast it, helping to keep the costs down as well as make the piece even more sentimental. I also used four-claw settings for the three smaller diamonds, to help them stand-out but a six-claw setting for the larger “star” diamond to help it appear more astral.
It always feels like such a privilege to be part of this really personal process, whether it be just after a loved one has gone or several years later. Often clients’ come to me with a very specific idea but even if you’re not sure what you want, we can have a chat about who it is you’d like to remember and come up with a design together. If you have any gold or precious stones that you’ve inherited and would like to turn into a piece of remembrance jewellery then please do get in touch.
