Jewellery

A jade circle barely wider than a fingertip.This is the bi disc reduced to its smallest form, the open centre still carrying the old meaning of a clear path. It is the piece for someone who wants jade on every day rather than for...

Two charms in one carving: the pixiu, and the hulu gourd beneath it.The pixiu is the winged creature of Chinese myth with an appetite for gold and no way to pass it, so what it takes in, it keeps. The hulu does the same...

Jade on a hand-tied red cord. Nothing metal.Red cord and jade is the oldest pairing in Chinese jewellery, the stone for steadiness and the thread for connection and luck. Red is the colour worn at every threshold in Chinese life, at new years, weddings,...

A full disc of pale jade, taijitu at the centre.Yin and yang are not opposites at war. They are two halves that need each other, each carrying a seed of the other, and the eight trigrams around them are the eight ways that balance...

A ring of jade with an open centre.The bi disc is one of the oldest forms in Chinese jade, carved and buried with the dead for four thousand years before anyone thought to wear one. The hole at its middle stands for heaven, and...

A jade disc carved with the eight trigrams.The bagua is the map feng shui works from, eight trigrams ringed around a still centre, and it usually hangs above a door to settle a room. Carved small in jade it does the same job at...

Bronzite, unakite and red jasper, three earth stones for the long haul. Bronzite is a dark brown stone with a metallic sheen that shifts as it moves, long kept for composure and for holding your ground without heat. Unakite is a granite of green...

Rose quartz with a single bead of labradorite. Rose quartz is the stone of the open heart, the love offered to others and the gentler kind offered to yourself. Labradorite is a grey stone that flashes blue and green as it turns in the...

The Pixiu (貔貅), wealth guardian of Chinese feng shui, paired with unakite and red agate. A winged creature said to feed on gold and silver and, having no way to release what it takes in, to keep every bit of fortune it draws toward...

Red agate on a knotted red string, with a single disc of pale green jade. The red string is the oldest of Chinese protective threads, tied on for luck and for keeping the wearer bound to good fortune. Red agate carries the same warm...

Rose quartz with a small gold hulu (葫芦) charm. Rose quartz is the stone of the open heart, the love offered to others and the gentler kind offered to yourself. Its pale pink deepens in the light and softens again in shade, which is...

The Pixiu (貔貅), wealth guardian of Chinese feng shui, set among dark green jade and red agate. A winged creature said to feed on gold and silver and, having no way to release what it takes in, to keep every bit of fortune it...

Smoky quartz with a carved cinnabar mantra bead and a single tiger eye. Smoky quartz is the grounding quartz, its brown depth formed slowly in the earth, long kept for steadiness and for setting down what has been carried too long. Cinnabar is the...

Amethyst, fluorite and rutilated quartz, three stones kept for a clear and settled mind. Amethyst is the calm stone, long kept to steady the thoughts and soften the edges of a hard day. Fluorite, banded in violet and green, has been carried for focus...

Aquamarine, rose quartz and clear quartz, strung around a single rough quartz stone. Aquamarine is the stone of still water, named for the sea and long carried for calm under pressure. It is the one kept close when something needs to be said clearly,...

The vajra scepter, two thunderbolt heads meeting at a central sphere, cast in titanium steel. The vajra, or dorje, is the thunderbolt of Tibetan practice, a symbol of strength and steadiness that no force can break. In its scepter form the two heads face...

A phurba dagger crossed with a vajra and an axe blade, set with a single red stone. The phurba is a ritual dagger whose three-sided blade stands for cutting through ignorance, attachment and aversion. Crossed with the vajra, the thunderbolt of unbreakable strength, it...

The double vajra, four thunderbolts crossed at the centre, cast in titanium steel. The vajra, or dorje, is the thunderbolt of Tibetan practice, a symbol of strength that cannot be broken. Crossed into the double vajra it points to all four directions at once,...

A slender phurba dagger, cast in titanium steel for everyday wear. The phurba is a ritual dagger whose three-sided blade stands for cutting through the three things that cloud a clear mind: ignorance, attachment, and aversion. Worn at the neck it is less an...

A phurba dagger with a guardian face at its crown, cast in titanium steel. The phurba is a ritual dagger whose three-sided blade stands for cutting through ignorance, attachment and aversion. The wrathful face above the blade belongs to a protector, the fierce expression...