RELIQUARY WAVE DESIGN PENDANT

THE GREEN LAKE SHOP YOUR CUSTOM DESIGN MODEL & CASTING THE JEWELER'S BENCH YOUR FINISHED PIECE

THE GREEN LAKE SHOP

Translating our client’s ideas into beautiful custom jewelry
to celebrate the iconic moments in life since 1996.

Your piece was crafted in the
the Seattle studio

The Seattle shop was our first large scale facility with room for 50+ artists. It includes a state of the art casting and production shop, all visible to the public. The design studio has 14 design stations, private meeting rooms and a full scale coffee and wine bar.

Green Lake Jewelry Works opened its doors on Seattle’s Green Lake Drive in 1996. Since then, its craftspeople have grown to win national recognition for excellence in the art of fine jewelry making with two distinct workshops where each piece is made by hand.

The flagship Seattle studio is home to all metal casting and a majority of 3D printing technologies for Green Lake Jewelry Works. Its workshop is also home to some of the most talented jewelers in the country, where a tradition of dedicated craftsmanship is passed from masters to journeymen and women.

YOUR CUSTOM DESIGN

Custom jewelry at Green Lake always begins with ideas, inspirations, and a sketch, where the many design elements that make for the perfect ring are discovered through ideation.

Oftentimes, a ring will go through many iterations and changes along the way before the final look is achieved.

DESIGNER

Nina graduated from the jewelry and metalsmithing program at Syracuse University. Her hands on experience with the process of creating a piece from design to finish allows her insight to compose an informed and eloquent invoice for each custom piece that goes through the shop. She enjoys being able to see the original sketches for each piece alongside the tangible finished object.

CLEANUP & DETAILING

Each ring in a small casting batch shares a common vein of gold or platinum, from where it’s cut and prepared for setting. Rough castings first need to be carefully cleaned and polished before more bench work can be done. Even the inner surfaces are carefully detailed.

100 PERCENT RECYCLED

Green Lake’s use of gold and platinum comes from 100% recycled or certified Fairmined sources. We are one of the nation’s first adopters of recycled casting grain certified by SCS Global Services. Today we return all scrap and unused noble metals for refining in a transparent supply chain.

CRAFTSMANSHIP

All areas of old-world jewelry making are completed in a single workshop. Master gold and platinumsmiths receive rings from casting and set to care for each pieces as a one-of-kind, collaborating with designers to ensure each detail is included.

MOKUME GANE

Mokume gane, Japanese for woodgrain metal, is a process of forging layers of different metals into a thick billet, then creating patterns through carefully hand working and forging techniques.

Mokume gane was originally used to create and adorn swords in 17th century Japan. Over time, Japanese metalsmiths turned their attention to other objects, with a crafts revival in the 1970’s that eventually translated this tradition into rings and other jewelry.

Like the forged steel Samurai swords from which this technique originated, Mokume rings exhibit undulating waves of different noble metals, and no two patterns are ever precisely the same. Your own Mokume piece is a handmade one-of-a-kind heirloom.

CELESTE
Mokume Artist

FINAL POLISH

Each custom made item in the Green Lake workshop receives a final polish before it’s carefully inspected and reviewed for standards of excellence. Each project is at last stamped with the Green Lake leaf quality mark before delivery.

YOUR FINISHED PIECE

Reliquary wave design pendant

Custom Sterling silver wave design reliquary pendant with 14kt rose gold and mokume inlay. Carved and cast design as a hollow form pendant ~ 3.5x2cm. Attach to Sterling silver 3.1mm wide flat cable chain 20" length.