Turquoise & Sterling Silver Threader EarringsDrive far enough west and the sky starts to change. Not just the color the weight of it, the way it presses down against dry land and opens up all at once. There's a blue out there that doesn't exist anywhere else, caught between mineral and atmosphere, stone and air. The Persians called turquoise "piruzeh" victorious and wore it as protection. The Navajo called it the fallen sky. Every culture that has encountered this stone has understood the same

There was a time in America when even poverty had a quiet grace to it

each piece layers giclée-printed imagery over stainless steel

crushes both stones and sets them in resin

At 1¾ inches including the ear wire and just 3 grams per earring

All metals are hypoallergenic

carrying forward a tradition of micro-mosaic craft that traces its lineage through centuries — from the tiny tesserae of Byzantine church walls to the miniature mosaics that Grand Tour travelers brought home from Rome in the eighteenth century

Copper ear wires add warmth at the top and are fully hypoallergenic and nickel-free

At 1¼ inches in diameter

Every curve responds to every other curve

these sit close and light — the kind of earring you forget you're wearing until someone across the table notices

Malachite has been carved and crushed and coveted since the Bronze Age

and in skilled hands it produces something no other medium can: color that appears to have depth