
All jewellery is handmade and shipped from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and therefore is exempt from tariffs for USA customers under CUSMA, the free-trade agreement. I always ship with a certificate of origin for customs.
All jewellery is handmade and shipped from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and therefore is exempt from tariffs for USA customers under CUSMA, the free-trade agreement. I always ship with a certificate of origin for customs.
*Caveat on using the term “recycled gold”:
While I am very careful to source my precious metals only from SCS® certified suppliers (SCS® stands for Supply Chain Sustainability; they are the global leader in the field of sustainability standards and third-party certification). Most of my precious metals suppliers are also members of the Responsible Jewellery Council. However, I want to point out that ‘recycling gold' is not what is commonly understood by the term.
True recycling avoids things ending up in landfills. Gold, of course, wouldn’t.
Instead, gold is simply melted, refined and repurposed.
Although SCS® certified refineries must maintain auditable records of their suppliers, there are loopholes globally which make it very easy for gold from unregulated and/or illegal sources to enter their supply chain.
This makes even 'certified recycled' gold untraceable.
Further reading:
Is Recycled Gold Ethical?
Materials, Sustainability, & Fairmined Metals
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Flow Ring No. 40
Grandeur 6.5
This ring gives the clear notion of ‘no hesitation’ – initially shaped in wax in one fluid motion, you can see the movement. Like the wrapping of a blanket, it connotes comfort, being held.
Naturally, this makes a perfect allegory for a marriage or union – Two coming together as One, the perfect ethical wedding band – or the completion of a cycle, a big task finished.
Created in the ancient Japanese technique Mitsuro Hikime: a mix of local beeswax and pine resin – you can’t imagine how glorious the studio smells when I work with this fragrant mixture! Worked at body temperature, and folder again and again over itself, eventually the distinct striations form from the tension between resin and wax.
The technique is fickle, though, and I make many many wax versions before the perfect one comes into existence. Only then do I go ahead and cast it in lost-wax method. That means that the wax is ‘lost’ during the casting process, and cannot be re-created. It also means that each ring exists only once.
Casting these in ethically mined gold is the perfect fit: a unique, handcrafted, ethical wedding band or simply a warm hug of 18k Fairming Gold To Be Proud Of
With the purchase of this ring, you improve lives of the miners and their communities at the artisanal Iquira Mine in Columbia.
This gold is traced meticulously, and audited by 3rd parties.
This product was proudly made of certified Fairmined™ Ecological gold, meaning:
• Small-scale operations with minimal environmental impact
• Guaranteed minimum price for workers
• Safe working conditions
• No link to conflict zones
• Better trade relationships
• Fairmined Premium for social, economic and environmental development
• Rehabilitation of native ecosystem
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Flow Ring No. 40
Grandeur 6.5
This ring gives the clear notion of ‘no hesitation’ – initially shaped in wax in one fluid motion, you can see the movement. Like the wrapping of a blanket, it connotes comfort, being held.
Naturally, this makes a perfect allegory for a marriage or union – Two coming together as One, the perfect ethical wedding band – or the completion of a cycle, a big task finished.
Created in the ancient Japanese technique Mitsuro Hikime: a mix of local beeswax and pine resin – you can’t imagine how glorious the studio smells when I work with this fragrant mixture! Worked at body temperature, and folder again and again over itself, eventually the distinct striations form from the tension between resin and wax.
The technique is fickle, though, and I make many many wax versions before the perfect one comes into existence. Only then do I go ahead and cast it in lost-wax method. That means that the wax is ‘lost’ during the casting process, and cannot be re-created. It also means that each ring exists only once.
Casting these in ethically mined gold is the perfect fit: a unique, handcrafted, ethical wedding band or simply a warm hug of 18k Fairming Gold To Be Proud Of
With the purchase of this ring, you improve lives of the miners and their communities at the artisanal Iquira Mine in Columbia.
This gold is traced meticulously, and audited by 3rd parties.
This product was proudly made of certified Fairmined™ Ecological gold, meaning:
• Small-scale operations with minimal environmental impact
• Guaranteed minimum price for workers
• Safe working conditions
• No link to conflict zones
• Better trade relationships
• Fairmined Premium for social, economic and environmental development
• Rehabilitation of native ecosystem
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