The Bearing | Green Aventurine, Copper & Brass Teardrop Bangle
Close to your pulse. Close to your intention.
The stone is a teardrop of forest green, deep and steady, like a pond at the end of summer. Aventurine is traditionally a stone of opportunity, long carried for luck and steady good fortune.
The Bearing sets it in a copper crown, an intricate gallery of tiny points shaped and fitted by hand, resting on a brass teardrop plate. Two sterling silver links join the plate to the band, and small brass sleeves hold the wires where they meet the silver. The band itself is two open brass wires, joined by a single small cross-bar, so it wears with ease and lets the stone take the light.
You will see it every time your hands do something. Typing. Pouring coffee. Holding a child's hand.
For the woman who knows that real strength is steady and rooted, and who carries what is hers with her head high.
The Magic Within
A teardrop is a shape that is carried. Rain, release, the dew that gathers before dawn. I chose it for the Threshold Collection because crossing from one season into the next asks us to let go of what is finished... and to stand firm in who we are while we do.
Green aventurine is traditionally associated with opportunity and heart-centred growth. I think of it as the stone of the first step, worn here at your wrist, where your pulse is.
Copper is the metal of conduction. It carries current, warmth and intention, and here it crowns the stone, so that what you hope for has somewhere to move.
Brass is the earth beneath it, steady and warm, the body of the whole piece. Rooted metal for a rooted woman.
Sterling silver is intuition, the light of the moon. It is the part that joins the stone to the band, and I like that. Your inner knowing is what connects what you carry to who you are becoming.
Wear it as you work, mother, create, and cross whatever threshold is in front of you today.
Let this piece remind you... that you are rooted, and that you can carry what is yours with strength.
Details
✦ 4.25mm x 3mm teardrop green aventurine cabochon
✦ Set in a hand-formed copper crown setting on a brass teardrop backplate
✦ Brass open double-wire band with a small brass cross-bar
✦ Two sterling silver links join the plate to the band, with small brass sleeves where the wires meet the silver
✦ Wrist fit: Medium wrist size between 6 mm-7mm
✦ Sterling silver JN maker's mark on the back of the plate
✦ One of a kind. This stone and this bangle will not be made again.
✦ Blessed and energetically cleared before shipping
✦ Arrives in ritual packaging with a handwritten note
Maker's mark line: Every piece I make carries my sterling silver JN maker's mark, pressed in by hand.
Care: Copper and brass develop a natural patina over time, part of their story. Polish with a clean, dry cloth if you prefer them bright. Please remove before washing hands or swimming, and keep away from lotions.
Part of the Threshold Collection, made to honour the turning of the season.