Little Back Ring 3

This is another of the series "Little Black Ring".
It has a large Hematite, again facetted, along with a border of 1-pointer white diamonds, and a border of 1-pointer black diamonds. It is in 18karat white gold, which we have left un-plated.

I love framing the negative space around the culet of a gemstone, even if most of the time you don't get to see it.

Rather than coating with a Rhodium finish like most of manufactured jewellery, we have left the ring with the natural colour of the white gold. This is something that we do a lot and something that I may post about in greater depth at some point in the future. There is a warmth to the colour tone of 18karat white gold which can compliment a lot of jewellery and gemstones instead of artificially masking it to look brighter, and then having it erode and wear off.
This is a good example, I really think that the white gold compliments the subtle warmth of tone in the Hematite, which has a very slight metallic green hue to the "black".

Little Black Ring

It has been a busy few weeks, thankfully, getting everyones pieces ready for christmas.

The finish line is in sight now, and the little elves are falling asleep on their feet and looking forward to Santa Claus.

Thought we would post something small and simple to keep the blog ticking over, and perhaps the nicest small and succinct idea from our archives is the "Little Black Ring".

We wanted to have a series that we could add to that would be an antithesis to the bright sparkle of most regular jewellery, but not sacrifice the idea of glamour and style. And we arrived at the idea of something that would sit in a woman's wardrobe as a staple item and eternally be ready to step out in and look a million dollars. Just like the little black dress, no woman's armoury is complete without a Little Black Ring !

We chose for LBR-1 a large Hematite with a beautiful dark metallic grey/green gemstone. 

The beauty of this stone is that though it is opaque, it is still cut in the fashion of a Round Brilliant, so you get the beauty of the symmetry and the faceting that your eye isn't usually drawn to. To our mind this is one of the most interesting gem stones we have seen. Given the interesting visual of the cutting, we couldn't resist opening up some of the underneath to highlight more of the stone.

And of course framing the dark circle with a border of small 1-point diamonds lifts the whole thing.

We have made I think 4 versions of Little Black Rings to date.

They are available to commission from our studio and also through DesignYard's fine jewellery gallery in Dublin's city centre.