Gold cut, folded and fastened like cloth. The last thing you put on.
Brooch
Protea18k yellow gold
US$1,572Sample price, from an example manufacturer. Not for sale.
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Ring
18k yellow gold
One flat band parted along a wave into two rings.
Worn together the crests of one sit in the troughs of the other and the line between them runs round the finger like a seam; worn apart, each is a ring of its own.
US$2,743Sample price, from an example manufacturer. Not for sale.
Veld is a clothing designer's jewellery. We cut clothes in a small studio in Nachlaot, in Jerusalem, mostly in linen, cotton and wool, and the jewellery began where the clothes stop: at the buckle, the button, the pin that holds a wrap closed.
So the gold behaves like cloth and tailoring. A band is topstitched along both edges. A brooch is a fan of pleats. A ring is a strap run through its buckle. A bracelet is mesh woven flat, a collar is a fringe. Each piece is a fastening or a finish first, and made in gold second.
It is sized to be seen against linen: a pin that reads across a room, a cuff wide enough to answer a sleeve. And it is quiet. One piece worn well does more than three.
Veld is the open country of the Cape, grass to the horizon. We keep it to the name and a single flower, a protea, and leave the rest to the cloth.
Not yet. Veld is shown here as a sample store on the Atelier template. The prices are real sample prices for each piece in its gold, but nothing here can be ordered.
Yes, solid gold, and only gold. No plating, no silver, no stones, pearls or enamel. Most pieces are 18k yellow; each piece's page names its gold and the other karat it can be made in.
The karat is the share of pure gold. 18k is 75% gold: the richest, warmest yellow, and a little softer. 14k is 58.5% gold: slightly paler, harder-wearing, and less expensive, because there is less gold in it. 10k is 41.7% gold, harder and paler again; we don't offer it, because beside natural fabric the colour is the point. The price follows the gold: the same piece costs less in 14k than in 18k.
Yes. Each piece is cast and finished for the order, in the gold you choose, so allow a few weeks. Rings are made in your size.
The sizing page explains it. The buckle ring and the topstitch band are wide, so size them a half up from a fine ring you already wear.
Not if it goes in the right way. The pins are fine and their points polished. Pass the pin between the threads rather than through them, and on silk, fine knit or a loose weave, pin through a seam or a doubled layer, where the cloth can carry the weight.
Because the clothes carry the colour. Gold alone, polished or satin, finishes an outfit without arguing with it, and it lasts as long as the garment it goes with, or longer.
Warm soapy water, a soft brush, a soft cloth. Gold doesn't tarnish. Mesh, tassels and fringe go in their own pouch, flat, so they don't tangle. The care page says more.
Write to the studio. We answer in the afternoons, between fittings, usually within a day.
