The Piece
Its body is composed of two tsavorite garnets: the torso is a coffin cut at 0.80 carats and the abdomen a shield cut at 0.78 carats.
The main body is made of yellow gold, with white gold claws. All the legs are white gold, and at the tips of the front legs hangs a hessonite garnet in a faceted drop cut at 0.71 carats in a claw mount. A 1.5mm diamond is also mounted on dangling settings. At the top of the legs is a petite cabochon cut citrine to complete the spider’s shape.
The web is entirely hand-made from one length of wire. It is approximately 80cm in total length, making a 31cm choker. The sides of the chain form a web of diamond settings to mimic the way rain or dew collects in webs during a summer storm or autumn.
The clasp is a yellow gold beetle, which conceals a hand-crafted mechanism with spring-loaded dual-looking pins. In the beetle’s eyes, there are 1.3 cab-cut emeralds and two 1mm diamonds on the locking pins.
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The total length and size of this piece can be altered to the owner’s specifications and is recommended. It currently is 31cm long
The ring comes in a sustainably sourced wooden box as well as the Serpent Cove treasure chest with all its Cove trinkets. Standard postage within Australia included, express and international postage available at an additional cost.
Story
Inspiration
The spider and the beetle
The sun’s hot glow starts to simmer off into a warmth as it leaves for another day, replaced with tints of reddish hues. A beetle surges forth, its golden carapace catching the last of the sun and soon the cooling glow of the night’s sky.
The slow, methodical movement above reveals a calculating beast in the branches. A single strand is slowly floated into this cooling twilight breeze. It dances and whips its way in the breeze and finds a place in the branches. The beast slowly makes its way across this strand that catches the now glowing moonlight and drops another line down and another and another.
With the night’s chill starting to settle in, the beetle is unfazed and armours forward, seeking its prize for the taking— a first orange fruit . Pushing and blowing its way forward, it has a simple objective in mind: the sweet fruits of the tree. It climbs up the tree. The spider’s creation grows in the foreground, silky strand at a time. It finally rests in its creation, waiting for its meal. (Waiting in the cold air, the web slowly collects the early morning dew, which the spider slowly drinks.) While waiting, the web’s strands pick up vibrations of something coming— dinner, it hopes, but these gentle, unrhythmic vibrations turn into thumping, lumbering beats that shake the spider’s delicate web. Slowly tangling in the outer foundations of the web, the beetle continues to slowly move forward towards its fruity delight but to no avail. The spider waits under the fruit and will only move once in striking distance. The two are forever in a loop of waiting and moving but in an unmovable tangle.
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