{"title":"Rings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA ring is the piece you see most often — on your own hand, all day. These are worth looking at. Real stones, handworked settings, one-of-a-kind.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"anethyst-ring-38","title":"Amethyst Ring #38","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePiece 38 — Amethyst Ring with 24K Gold Leaf\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis amethyst ring is a piece that began as an experiment. Not a ring — an exploration. I was testing ways of working with gold leaf, seeing what it could do in different contexts, different applications. I was not focused on making something. I was simply making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then I looked up and there it was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is how art actually works — not in the focused, deliberate moments of intention, but in the ones where your hands are moving and your mind is somewhere else and suddenly the thing in front of you is finished and extraordinary and completely itself. I love the piece most for exactly that reason. It arrived as a surprise. The best ones always do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe amethyst cluster is small by comparison to some of the stones I work with — but small is entirely the wrong word for what it does in this setting. Set into a hand-sculpted body finished with 24 carat gold leaf, its deep violet crystal points rising from the dark sculptural form, it becomes a ring that takes over a hand completely. Statement is too small a word for it. It is a declaration worn on a finger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe gold leaf catches the light differently at every angle — sometimes barely visible, sometimes blazing — because it was applied by hand, in layers, in the particular way that only an exploratory process produces. You cannot plan that quality of surface. You can only arrive at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmethyst works with the crown and third eye chakras — intuition, clarity, spiritual protection. Worn on the hand, it travels with you into every gesture, every conversation, every room you enter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterials:\u003c\/strong\u003e Raw amethyst, 24K gold leaf, hand-sculpted proprietary medium \u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 37.42 g \/ 1.32 oz \u003cstrong\u003eStone:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3 cm \/ 1.18 in high, 5.5 cm \/ 2.17 in long \u003cstrong\u003eRing size:\u003c\/strong\u003e approximately European 53 (US size 6.5). Because each ring is made entirely by hand and is not a perfect circle, the size is approximate rather than exact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne of a kind. Made once. Yours alone.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lisa Marie Armstrong Jewelry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64313870352733,"sku":null,"price":790.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1054\/9008\/8285\/files\/IMG_2185-Photoroom.jpg?v=1780244203"},{"product_id":"amethyst-ring-51","title":"Amethyst Ring #51","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis amethyst ring was born of trial and error — and to tell you where it comes from, I have to go back to the very first ring I ever made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat ring is the one you see the moment you arrive at lisamariearmstrong.com — the amethyst ring on the homepage. I made it in Magdeburg, on a visit to my mother-in-law. She spent the afternoon with my children, and I took the time to make something. I had always wanted an enormous amethyst ring, so I made one from raw amethyst — quickly, almost without thinking, and somehow it simply worked. That ring is what made me want to make more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis one came later, and it came hard. About five months after my first jewelry show, I injured my ankle and could not walk for three months. Stranded at home, I decided it was as good a time as any to make rings. It turned out to be far more difficult than I expected — getting the size right, getting my medium to hold a true circle, getting everything to behave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis particular piece has been reshaped three times. It was too big once. It was off balance once. I ground it, sculpted it, and worked through it again and again until it finally settled into the form it has now. Some pieces give themselves to you. This one made me earn it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe texture along the side of the band — the part that reads like cut crystal — is exactly that. It comes from a mold I took of a cut crystal glass I have kept in my family for years, something very dear to me. So the ring carries a small, private inheritance pressed into its surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe metallics were their own long experiment. I galvanized this piece — electroplating, but onto a nonconductive surface, which means I first have to make the surface conductive before any plating can begin. It is difficult, unpredictable work, and there are many test pieces behind this one. Fine silver, palladium, and 22 carat gold. The places where the band is plated and the places where it is left bare are intentional — a deliberate conversation between metal and form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmethyst works with the crown and third eye chakras — intuition, clarity, spiritual protection. Worn on the hand, it stays with you through every gesture and every room you walk into.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI had to earn this ring three times over. I love it for exactly that. I hope it finds its person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterials:\u003c\/strong\u003e Raw amethyst, hand-sculpted proprietary medium, fine silver, palladium plating, 22K gold plating\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 54.75 g \/ 1.93 oz\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStone:\u003c\/strong\u003e oval, 4 cm \/ 1.57 in long, 3 cm \/ 1.18 in wide; the ring stands approximately 2 cm \/ 0.79 in high\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRing size:\u003c\/strong\u003e approximately European 54 (US 6.75). This is a wide-banded ring, and wider bands tend to sit more snugly than narrow ones, so please allow for that. And because each ring is made entirely by hand and is not a perfect circle, the size is approximate rather than exact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne of a kind. Made once. Yours alone.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lisa Marie Armstrong Jewelry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64849956438365,"sku":null,"price":990.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1054\/9008\/8285\/files\/IMG_2180-Photoroom.jpg?v=1780244129"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1054\/9008\/8285\/collections\/IMG_8852.png?v=1779385760","url":"https:\/\/shop.lisamariearmstrong.com\/collections\/rings.oembed","provider":"Lisa Marie Armstrong Jewelry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}