Mitzi Bespoke

Ruby, Ruby, Ruby

Bespoke jewellery is often commissioned to celebrate an anniversary. Here, my client was celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of meeting her husband, and wanted a bespoke ruby necklace. She like the rough form of the stone, and imagined it set with other stones as part of the finished piece. Ruby forms as a hexagonal crystal and can be found in geodes, within zoisite, a mint green rock. Impossible to source in the UK, a geologist friend and colleague found a wonderful geode, at the mineral fair in Tuscon, Arizona, which we imported, sliced, and polished in Hatton Garden, to make the central stone in this pendant. Here the ruby is set in gold, and surrounded by green quartz trillions to complete the piece. I also made her husband a pair of cufflinks to celebrate their anniversary, from a different slice the same rock. What a joy from start to finish.

Ruby	The most famed and fabled red gemstone, ruby is highly desirable due to its colour, durability and lustre and can command the highest per carat price of any coloured gemstone.
Green Quartz	Silica, commonly found as quartz is the most common mineral on the Earths crust, and is a component of almost every rock type. Quartz therefore has more colours and forms than any other stone including this wonderful, pale green quartz.
Gold	The most beautiful and highly sought-after precious metal has been used to make jewellery since long before the beginning of recorded history.