I found some amazing necklaces the other day and wanted to share them with you. The beauty of the internet you see. I can show you something that is made in the UK and you can not only look at them but order one too, if you wanted. They are beautiful individual items created from recycled material. My favourites are the ones made from zips and watch parts. The creator is a trainee architect and has quite the eye for detail. Every rough edge is smoothed down and each piece is unique. Even the chains are made from recycled parts and warm up beautifully on the skin.

The top necklace is made from steel zips (zippers?) and is not as heavy as it looks. Substantial but a lot lighter than I had imagined. The one below is made from recycled watch parts and resin and is hung on a chain mail chain. I think it works best as a long pendant but the beauty of buying jewellery like this is you can specify just what kind of length you like.

Anathema Designs mostly takes commissions and is happy to work with what you want to make. She didn’t offer headpieces but when I explained that I wanted something more unusual than a fascinator to wear to a wedding next weekend we worked together to work out what sort of sized zip piece would work best. I am eagerly awaiting it’s arrival this week…

I also really liked the concept of jewellery that attempt(s) to change perceptions about what is beautiful and what isn’t. That is something we could do to take from jewellery and apply to a few other areas of life too.

(they’d also make excellent christmas presents)

{All photos from/by Anathema Designs}