FORGOTTEN TIDE NECKLACE
Handmade in Australia from 100% recycled sterling silver. Shaped slowly, and made to last.
- Statement piece – 24.8g of sterling silver and recycled composite 'technofossil'
- Made to order – each technofossil is unique
- 14 Day Returns & 1 Year Warranty
The central stone is a "technofossil" made from mined waste, which replaces the conventionally-mined gemstone. It is made in-house with a combination of gemstone offcuts/chips (from gem carvers), sterling silver offcuts (from Loki production), sea urchin spines (shell waste from a gourmet NSW supplier) as well as a variety of other salvaged materials.
Each piece is handmade with variable materials, meaning every technofossil is unique and irreplicable. This is part of an ongoing Loki research initiative to revalue the minerals and materials we already have above ground, and avoid using materials that further damage the Earth.
"Something washed up on the muddy banks, dredged from the silt by Earth-churn and a seismic shuddering. It’s the crackingopen that always seems to happen as soon as things settle for too long. Did it hail from the Permian? The Carboniferous? Somewhere, sometime, in that neighbourhood. There is something off about it though, it doesn’t look like the other fossils I’ve seen around here…"
An heirloom in the making.
Loki Patera is the studio practice of Australian artist Harrison Pickering. Each piece is shaped slowly by hand in my studio, produced in limited batches.
FAQs
Yes. For example, even if your ring size does not appear in the product options, we can still usually make it.
Email lab@lokipatera.com, or fill out our contact form first to make sure, then we will ask you to put your size in the 'Notes' at checkout. We can also do variations on gems, surface finish, chain length etc, so follow the same process.
We can make most of our pieces in 9CT and 18CT gold. We also make bespoke pieces such as engagement rings, wedding bands and personal heirlooms. Email lab@lokipatera.com, or fill out our contact form to begin the conversation.
Often when companies manufacture their products in overseas factories, there is little to no transparency and oversight – leading to labour abuses, environmental pollution and compromised quality.
Although its more expensive, making Loki pieces in Australia ensures labour & environmental protections, and a high quality of life for every artisan that contributed to the piece.
If you trace the origin of precious metals extracted on an industrial scale, you find a wake of destruction. For example, to mine one ounce of gold, you need to process 2.8 tonnes of ore, use and contaminate ~2,286 litres of water, and generate 800kg of CO2.
With such extensive extraction, and all the damage that comes with industrial mining, it is time to rethink how we source the materials we use. Precious metals like silver and gold are incredible candidates for circularity. They are considered 'infinitely recyclable' because their chemical and physical properties do not degrade during the recycling process. With so much metal already available above-ground, it makes sense to recycle what we have and avoid newly mined metals.