In this place, the summer earth is where the blue corn grows, stalks tall and ears a mix of cornflower and ivory, gold and violet. With this necklace, Wings honors the rich red-brown soil that births it, the green stalks and leaves that hold it gently, and the brilliant kernels that will become food, offerings, medicine. At either end, the strand is anchored by tiny round diamond-cut sterling silver beads that flash like the mica that makes the local clay shimmer, then alternates between round Chinese writing stone orbs in two shades of rich earthy brown and extraordinary chrysoprase barrel beads in glowing jade green marbled with golden-brown matrix. The chrysoprase dances with freeform yellow opal, luminous white-lip mother-of-pearl shell rounds, and freeform nuggets of stormy blue Dumortierite in a gradient that resembles the rows of kernels in an ear of blue corn. The best of the blue Indian corn sits at the center like an offering, an extraordinary violet-blue barrel of natural iolite flanked on either side by paired orbs of glossy Dumortierite in shades of indigo and cornflower. Necklace hangs 22″ long, excluding findings (dimensions approximate). Designed jointly by Wings and Aji. Another view shown below. Necklace coordinates with From the Richest Clay earrings [sold] and A Wild Earth Medicine coil bracelet [sold]. From the Earth series in Wings’s new collection, The Summer Elementals (all pieces shown below).

Strand:  Tri-ply foxtail plated with silver; sterling silver findings;
Beads: Iolite; Dumortierite; white-lip mother-of-pearl shell; yellow opal;
chrysoprase; Chinese writing stone; diamond-cut sterling silver
$400 + shipping, handling, and insurance

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