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 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