Name: porcupine quill open ring
Brand: Thicket
Price: 98.0 USD
Availability: InStock

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metal — sterling silver

sterling silver

14k yellow gold

ring size

5

This ring is made from a casting of a single porcupine quill. The daring shape curves around your finger with an open space between the ends.

Because of the open profile and the length of the cast quill this ring is available only in size 5. The closed version of the porcupine quill ring is available in a range of sizes.

NATURAL HISTORY

Erethizon dorsatum

The most common North American porcupine, subspecies E. d. dorsatum, is found across the northern United States and much of Canada. Porcupines are shy and solitary and most active at night. They can live to be 30 years old. Porcupines are excellent climbers and eat a diet of plant matter like leaves, roots, berries, and bark.

Branches stripped of bark and chewed hemlock twigs strewn on snow are signs of a porcupine's presence.

An adult porcupine has about 30,000 quills which are modified hollow hairs that serve as both protection and insulation.

METAPHOR

Protection and self reliance. The quiet of snow on a stand of hemlocks.

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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.

porcupine quill open ring

NATURAL HISTORY

METAPHOR

Why metaphor?

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