The Pin began during my training to become a jeweller - a brief to make a brooch, something I quietly thought no one really wore anymore. Looking for meaning in it, I researched symbols of life and fertility and found the Egyptian ankh. I made it, and gave it to a close friend during her fertility treatment, with no expectation.
What I hadn't foreseen was how it would be worn. During procedures, when rings and other jewellery had to be removed, the pin could often stay — fastened to her hospital gown, kept close when everything else couldn't be.
She has since had her son, and in the years since has passed the pin from woman to woman — many of them strangers, each enclosing a handwritten note for someone facing the same thing. In time, they simply began asking for "the pin."
She asked me for a long while to make these for others. This is that piece, designed now to be worn first as a pendant, then transferred onto its procedure pin whenever it's needed. What began as a quiet gesture, when words and gifts didn't feel like enough, has become this.
Love, Prudence x
The Pin is a handcrafted sterling silver talisman, inspired by the ancient ankh - the Egyptian symbol of life. It's made to be worn as a pendant on a chain, and can be moved onto its procedure pin to stay close during treatments and surgeries, when other jewellery often has to come off.
I originally made it for a friend going through IVF.
What I didn't expect was that after her own journey, she’d begin lending it to other women - each heading into appointments and surgeries of their own. Often it travelled with a handwritten note for the next woman to hold - strangers sharing love & hope with one another.
In time it became more than jewellery: a quiet symbol of comfort and connection between women who understood what the other was carrying - a reminder that someone is thinking of you, and holding hope with you.
This piece was born from that story.
x Prudence
