Ships worldwide. This piece is held at our workshop and ships internationally.
One of a kind
Every carving is cut from its own block of rough. The photographs on this page show the exact piece you will receive — not a sample from the same batch.
Natural stone, untreated
100% natural stone, never dyed or reconstituted. Veins, inclusions and small shifts in colour are how the material formed; they are marks of origin rather than faults.
Carved by hand
Cut, shaped and polished by hand. Proportions differ a little from piece to piece because each one follows the block it came out of.
Checked and packed
Hand-inspected before dispatch and shipped in shockproof packaging.
Something Held Back
Labradorite is traditionally associated with what is not immediately apparent in a person, and with the value of not showing everything at once.
Turn it slowly rather than displaying it fixed.
Transition
Its reputation is specifically as a stone of thresholds and change of state rather than of arrival.
Keep it through the move, the change, the interval.
Keeping Your Own Weather
Traditionally credited with maintaining a person's own state in draining company.
Carried rather than displayed, by most accounts.
Perspective
Because the flash only appears from certain positions, the stone is read as an argument about where you are standing.
Move rather than moving it when it looks dull.
Why We Carve Animals
Animals in stone are old — older than writing. What a carved animal carries is whatever its own culture gave it: the elephant's memory, the owl's night sight, the bear's patience. The stone lends its own weight to the borrowing.
Keep it in view rather than in storage; these are traditionally companions rather than talismans.