'The Folklore Wall'

The Folklore green is the color of a garden wall in late May — the green that appears for a few weeks at the height of spring before the full heat of summer pushes it toward a harsher saturation. This bracelet uses it as a literal ground: a painted green wall behind which verbena, forget-me-nots, bridal veil spirea, bronze balls, and grapevine blooms are pressed and held. The wall is the context. The flowers are what grows against it.

In cottage gardens, the wall is often the most important element: the thing that makes the garden feel enclosed, intentional, like a room rather than a field. Against the Folklore green wall here, everything that grows feels chosen, placed, certain of its position. The bronze balls catch the light differently than the blooms. The spirea trails. The grapevine holds its woody form. The forget-me-nots stay blue. The whole piece is a cottage garden in miniature, pressed into a bezel, worn on the wrist.

This bracelet is for the woman who has always known exactly where her garden ends and everything else begins.