If jade has one definitive form, it is the bangle: a single unbroken circle cut from a single stone, no clasp, no seam, no second chances for the carver. It is also the piece most often passed from mother to…
Ask why jade is worn against the skin, and someone will offer you the old saying: 人養玉，玉養人 — people nurture jade, and jade nurtures its keeper. It is sometimes dressed up as medicine. It is better understood as something truer…
Between the formality of a bangle and the lightness of a cord pendant sits the beaded jade bracelet — the most forgiving way to wear jade daily, and the piece we most often see become a habit its owner cannot…
A ring is the only jewellery its owner sees all day. Necklaces and earrings perform for others; a ring keeps you company — at the desk, on the steering wheel, around a teacup. That changes what matters in choosing one.…
When the occasion is too large for flowers — a wedding, a birth, a new home, a sixtieth birthday — Chinese tradition reaches for jade. A figurine given at a threshold moment becomes part of the family’s story: displayed, dusted,…
Of all jade jewellery, the pendant is the most personal. It hangs at the chest, usually out of sight, worn for the wearer and not the room. Which is exactly why the choice matters: a pendant is a wish you…
A jade carving is never only decoration. For centuries, every motif has carried a wish — carved into the stone so the wearer carries it too. Knowing the language helps you choose a piece that says what you mean. The…
Not all jade is worn. Some of the finest stones are too large, too dramatic, or too complete in themselves for jewellery — and these become sculpture: dragons rising over carved pools, mountain scenes, flowers opening out of the rough…
The most common mistake people make with jade is saving it. Kept for special occasions, a fine piece spends its life in a drawer. But jade is one of the few precious things that is genuinely improved by wearing —…
The word jade covers two different stones: jadeite and nephrite. Both have been treasured in Chinese culture for thousands of years, but jadeite — rarer, harder, capable of finer colour — is the stone this house is built on. Colour…