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A delicate gold chain necklace with small dark blue bead accents spaced along the chain, featuring a gold clasp, shown on a light gray background.
A close-up of a person wearing a delicate gold chain necklace with small dark blue bead accents, paired with a dark navy shirt against a warm brown background.
A close-up of a woman wearing a delicate gold chain necklace with small dark blue bead accents, paired with a dark navy button-down shirt against a warm brown background.
A close-up lifestyle shot of a woman wearing a gold rectangular pendant necklace with blue beads on a dark brown background.
women wearing rectangular gold-plated pendant with lapis stone, on a beaded choker chain, with brown background.

Path Beaded Choker

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Sale price £270.00

Part of the new collection designed in collaboration with IAIA. 

The Path Choker evokes the winding, striated topographies of Northern Afghanistan. Made with alternating gold-plated silver beads and lapis beads, the design is playful yet sophisticated.

Pairs well with our Detachable Summit Pendants.

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A delicate gold chain necklace with small dark blue bead accents spaced along the chain, featuring a gold clasp, shown on a light gray background.
Path Beaded Choker Sale price £270.00

The Collection

Designed in collaboration with Arianna Calabrese of IAIA, this collection is inspired by the mountains of Badakhshan, and from studies of topographical maps
and geological sections. It takes its inspiration from contour lines, stratified layers, and the
mountain terrain. Lapis lazuli comes from this region, where it has been mined for over four
millennia and traded across continents. Here, it is both the material and the reference point.

Tillya Tepe to Today

Afghan Craftsmanship

In 1978 an Afghan-Soviet team of archaeologists discovered a hoard of over 20,000 ornaments, jewellery, and precious artefacts in Northern Afghanistan. Dated back to the first century BCE, the Tillya Tepe hoard is renowned for its staggering beauty and finesse.

Afghanistan's rich jewellery tradition continues to this day. Stimulated by influences from across the ancient silk road and tribal traditions within Afghanistan, Afghan jewellers benefit from direct access to an array of fine precious and semi-precious gemstones, including emeralds, rubies, lapis lazuli, tourmaline and kunzite.

The bluest blue

Lapis Lazuli

Blue is one of the rarest colours found in nature. Up until the 18th century, whether you were a Pharaoh or an artist, there was only one place you could find blue in its natural form - the high peaks of north-eastern Afghanistan.

When ground into a fine powder, Lapis gives a strikingly blue pigment. This made Lapis a priceless commodity, surpassing the price of gold up until the industrial age,

To this day, Afghanistan remains home to the world's largest deposit of Lapis Lazuli. Due to this, you'll find Lapis in many of the jewellery pieces we offer.