The Jharna Necklace

The Story Named for the Sanskrit word for a waterfall, jharna, this necklace is built around the idea of cascade: of silver pouring downward in chains, of history flowing through an object into the present. The pendant is a striking triangular composition, its apex pointing downward as though drawing the eye into the fall of chains below, each strand threaded with leaf-form drops that catch the light differently with every movement. At the heart of it all, a crescent-shaped kundan centrepiece, ruby red and seed pearl white set in gold, burns like a coal in the silver, ancient and insistent.

The Craft The triangular pendant frame is worked in fine pierced filigree, silver cut and laid in intricate lattice patterns that reveal the light through them, with a stamped floral motif at the apex. The kundan centrepiece is set in the traditional Mughal technique, with rubies and seed pearls arranged in a crescent form within a gold setting, their placement deliberate and deeply considered. From the base of the pendant fall multiple silver chains of varying lengths, each strung with small hand-stamped marquise and petal-form drops, creating a cascading fringe that moves with extraordinary fluidity.

The Materials Forged in oxidised sterling silver with a gold-set kundan centrepiece of rubies and seed pearls, the pendant is strung on a hand-selected strand of mixed oxidised silver beads, rough spheres, ribbed rounds, and faceted forms, that give the necklace a deliberately unpolished, collected quality, as though assembled bead by bead over a lifetime.