Necklace

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...

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...

A phurba dagger crowned with a vajra head, cast in titanium steel. The phurba is a ritual dagger whose three-sided blade stands for cutting through ignorance, attachment and aversion. The vajra above it is the thunderbolt, a symbol of strength and steadiness that no...

The Dog of the Chinese zodiac, carved in cinnabar beneath its seal character. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the...

The Pig of the Chinese zodiac, carved in cinnabar beneath its seal character. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the...

The Rooster of the Chinese zodiac, carved in cinnabar beneath its seal character. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the...

The Monkey of the Chinese zodiac, carved in cinnabar beneath its seal character. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the...

The Goat of the Chinese zodiac, carved in cinnabar beneath its seal character. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the...

The Horse of the Chinese zodiac, carved in cinnabar beneath its seal character. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the...

The Dragon of the Chinese zodiac, carved in cinnabar beneath its seal character. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the...

The Snake of the Chinese zodiac, carved in cinnabar beneath its seal character. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the...

The Ox of the Chinese zodiac, carved in cinnabar beneath its seal character. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the...

The Rabbit of the Chinese zodiac, carved in cinnabar beneath its seal character. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the...