Lot 01 sold out · 113 of 153 remain · Lot 02 opening soon

Made one strand at a time

The fish are the fun part.

Everything holding them together is the serious part. Glazed porcelain, semi precious stone, 14k gold filled findings, knots between the beads. The same construction a jeweler would use on a piece meant to be worn for years rather than a season.

That is the whole idea. A necklace can make you laugh and still be built properly. Those two things usually get sold separately, and they should not be.

Close up of a coral fish bead between gold spacers and pale stone rounds in raking sunlight.

The making

A strand takes the better part of a day, and most of that day never shows up in a photograph.

  1. 01Lay out the strandColors get chosen in daylight, bead by bead. Glaze pulls differently in every firing, so two strands laid out from the same tray still come out different.
  2. 02Glaze and fireEvery fish is porcelain, glazed and kiln fired, then sorted by hand. Anything with a soft edge or a crooked eye goes back in the bin.
  3. 03String and knotStrung and knotted by hand, then finished with 14k gold filled hardware and a clasp that opens one handed.
  4. 04Number and sign itEach finished strand is checked at the clasp, given its number in the edition, and sent out with a card signed by hand. Not printed, signed.

The edition

153 pieces.
Not one repeat.

Not 153 copies of one necklace. 153 different ones, strung separately, numbered as they are finished, and released in lots. Lot 01 was 40 pieces and it is gone.

Pastel porcelain fish necklace laid flat, with a gold clasp and stone spacer beads.

The full school

Porcelain fish end to end, spaced with stone rounds. The loudest thing we make, and the one strangers stop you about.

Beads
Porcelain fish and stone
Length
About 16 in
Findings
14k gold filled

Numbered and signed

Pastel porcelain fish necklace worn at collarbone length, mint, lilac, butter and pink fish between pale stone rounds.

Made to your colors

You pick the palette, the length, the clasp, and the crystal if you want a charm. If you are trying to carry someone around, dog included, say so and the colors can follow from that. About two weeks from the day the details are settled, and it takes its own number in the edition.

Beads
Your palette, our glazes
Length
15 to 20 in
Findings
14k gold filled

Numbered, about 2 weeks

Stone strand worn at the collarbone with a gold carabiner clasp and a carved crystal fish charm hanging from it.

One fish, one meaning

A carved crystal fish on a gold carabiner, hung from a stone strand. Eight stones are in rotation and each one carries its own meaning. The strand arrives with its fish already chosen, and a card that tells you what the stone stands for.

Charm
Carved crystal fish
Strand
Stone rounds
Findings
14k gold filled carabiner

Numbered and signed

The charms

Eight stones, one to a strand

Charm strands are finished with the stone that suited them, which means the fish is chosen before the piece ever goes up. That is what an edition of 153 with no repeats actually means in practice. If you have your heart set on a particular stone, that is what a made to order strand is for.

Rose Quartzlove, kindness
Tiger Eyecourage, focus
Green Aventurineluck, opportunity
Natural Quartzclarity, a clean start
Obsidianprotection, grounding
Unakitebalance, patience
Blue Spot Jaspercalm, steadiness
Synthetic Turquoisesafe travels

The drawings show which stones are in rotation, not the exact piece you will get. Real stone varies from one to the next, which is most of the reason to want it. The turquoise is synthetic and we call it that, because you should not have to wonder. The other seven are natural. Meanings are the ones these stones have carried for a long time, offered as folklore rather than as a promise.

How many there are

153, and then never again.

The edition is 153 pieces. They go out in lots rather than all at once, because a lot is as many as can be strung properly at a time and rushing that is how a necklace ends up feeling like a souvenir. Lot 01 was 40 pieces and it sold out. When the last of the 153 is claimed, the edition closes. There is no lot after the last one.

40 claimed · 113 remaining · edition of 153

Numbered

Every piece is marked with its place in the edition, 1 through 153, and that number is yours alone.

Signed by hand

The card that comes with it is signed, not printed. It takes a second and it means the thing came from a person.

Closed at 153

No colorway is strung twice and the edition does not reopen. Lot 02 is next, and there are only so many lots left.

Our story

His name is Fisher.
Nobody calls him that.

He is Fish. He is the baby of the family in the way that only a dog manages, which is to say completely, and without anybody having voted on it.

You cannot take a dog everywhere. That is the whole problem this started with. His person wanted something to wear on the days he had to stay home, something with a little of him in it, and nothing on any shelf was close. So she made one for herself. Then people started asking where she got it.

That is the entire origin. One dog, and the ordinary want to keep him nearby.

It is also the reason the parts nobody photographs get taken seriously here. Something you wear because it means something gets worn constantly, and constant wear is hard on a necklace. So the porcelain is fired to hold its glaze, the stone is real, the findings are gold filled rather than plated, and there are knots between the beads. Sentiment is why it exists. Construction is why it survives.

If you have someone of your own to carry around, dog very much included, that is what the made to order strands are for.

playful by nature. made with intention.

Named for a dog. Made by hand in South Carolina.

Restrung free, for life

Thread wears out eventually. Send it back and it comes home restrung, no charge beyond shipping.

Thirty days to be sure

If it is not right on you, send it back unworn within thirty days for a full refund.

Ready to give

Every order ships in a linen pouch inside a gift box, with the run number on the card.

What are you drawn to

You are on the list.

Lot 02 lands in your inbox a day before it goes anywhere else. 113 pieces left in the edition, no two the same, and then it closes for good.