One of one
Stones with stories.
Handcrafted necklaces and bracelets. Every stone chosen by hand, in the place it was born.
See the collectionEach piece begins as a walk. A cliff in Newfoundland. A market in Fez. A riverbed in the Andes. What comes home becomes the necklace at your throat, the bracelet at your wrist — quieter than gold, warmer than silver, and yours alone.
The collection
Recent pieces, in hand
Six of the current pieces available in the studio. Each is one of one; when a stone is set, it is gone.
The journeys
Where the stones came from
A stone without provenance is only a stone. A note from three of the places these came from.
The blue that Cleopatra wore
Six thousand years ago, caravans carried this stone across the Hindu Kush to the workshops of Ur, of Thebes, of Byzantium. The mine is still open. The stone still travels. This piece came home in a leather pouch, wrapped in a page torn from a paperback.
The stone that only glows at a certain angle
The Inuit call it the frozen fire of the aurora. Turn it in your hand — nothing. Turn it again — a slow flash of green, of copper, of a blue that has no name. It is a stone that keeps its beauty for the person willing to move.
The color of the sea, before you touch it
Larimar was found in 1974, when a Peace Corps volunteer and a local fisherman climbed together into a hillside above the Caribbean. It exists on one hill on one island. Wear it and you carry that particular water.
About
The maker
Tamsyn is a jeweler, traveler, and quiet observer of stones. For fifteen years she has kept a small leather pouch in her bag on every trip — into it go the pieces of the world she couldn't leave behind. Later, in the studio, each becomes a bracelet or a necklace, set by hand in silver, brass, or waxed cord.
She works slowly. There is no second edition. When a stone is used, it is gone.
If you have a stone of your own — from a beach, a mountain, a person you loved — she will set it for you.
— Tamsyn
Inquire
Write.
Every piece is one of one. Reach out for pricing, sizing, or to commission something from a stone you've been carrying.
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