Name: catbriar thorn necklace
Brand: Thicket
SKU: NB04OG-18
Price: 140.0 USD
Availability: InStock

gold catbrier thorn necklace worn with lace dress and waxed canvas jacket, pine trees in background

$208.00

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metal — 14k yellow gold + oxidized sterling silver

sterling silver

14k yellow gold + oxidized sterling silver

14k yellow gold

Chain Lengths

18 inches

This glinting thorn necklace pendant is cast from a catbriar thorn - a determined and tenacious climbing vine that forms dense thickets when left to its own devices.

NATURAL HISTORY

Smilax rotundifolia

Catbriars, also known as greenbriars, are a tenacious climbing vine that reaches out with tendrils to grow and spread into dense thickets when left to its own devices. The plant blooms with small yellow-green flowers in May and June. Although catbriars cause trouble for gardeners they are an important native species and their berries feed black bears, bluebirds and sparrows and deer feed on their leaves.

Greenbriars take their name from the Greek myth of Crocus and Smilax. Crocus, a mortal man, fell in love with the nymph Smilax and was transformed into a flower and Smilax, the woodland nymph, was transformed into a brambly vine.

METAPHOR

Tenacity and love. The feeling of a summer morning before the heat arrives.

catbriar thorn pendant is approximately .47 x .12 inches | 12 x 3 mm
1.1 mm oxidized sterling silver cable chain with spring clasp
available chain length: 18 inches | 45.7 centimeters

Each and every piece of Thicket jewelry is carefully made by hand in Thicket's studio. Production typically takes about one week before your order is ready to ship.

For best chance of delivery by 12/24 order by 12/12 with Ground shipping or 12/16 with Priority shipping. Check our page on holiday ordering and shipping cut-offs for more information - including deadlines for international and in-store pickup orders.

Thicket jewelry is meant to be worn and loved but fine jewelry requires proper care. You can read more of our recommendations on our jewelry care and repairs page.

Thicket offers lifetime repairs on all Thicket jewelry.

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Details of the natural world to carry with you

About the process

Each piece of Thicket jewelry begins with taking a mold of a found or foraged natural object. This mold is used in the process of lost wax casting to create a perfect replica, in solid fine metal, of the original natural object.

about the studio

A note from Rebecca

Why metaphor?

Jewelry is not only adornment - it is symbolism. Jewelry can be a talisman, a reminder, a covenant, a spell.

Humans have been ascribing meaning to the natural world for a very long time. In selecting natural objects to cast I think not only about the form and aesthetics but also the valences of meaning the object holds and I include these in the description of each Thicket piece. Each of these metaphors is a beginning, waiting for you to layer your own meanings and stories onto.

catbriar thorn necklace

NATURAL HISTORY

METAPHOR

About the process

Why metaphor?

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