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Ash tree necklace – handmade and Recycled silver Florin coin

This lovely silver tree pendant design, like the others in the collection, has been designed and fashioned around the restrictions of using an old English sterling silver coin as the raw material.

The tree is a vision of a summer approaching. Gorgeous greenery everywhere! Each pendant is unique, handcrafted and recycled. The outlined design of the tree is sketched onto the flattened coin. This is then carefully followed with an ultra fine piercing saw blade. Every ‘nook and crany’ is cut, filed and polished. The end result is quite remarkable.

100% Handcrafted & Recycled in Cambridge, UK. If you would like to see the making of this particular tree please click the following link and you will be directed to a film : Making the tree

Tree necklace pendant Size : Approx 44 mm * 37 mm

“The great world tree Yggdrasil full of magick, strong, light, quick, the tree of life. Protection, Power, Health and Courage.”– The Growler

The Ash is sacred and has an ancient history, as well as promoting health, courage and instilling a sense of rebirth and new life. In Norse mythology, Yggsdrasil, the World Tree. This a central part of the Vikings’ myths, featuring in almost all ancient Viking stories, and has many sacred animals associated with it too. Ash leaves have always been sacred in both Celtic and Norse mythology, and these earrings are a tribute to this long-standing tradition of displaying revered symbols in art.

World tree jewellery.  The Third Moon month of Ash.  The collection of jewellery celebrating the Ash tree of life and its connection to our existence.  The symbolic nature of protection, power, health and courage present in each piece.

The Sentinel of Worlds

In the ash, a cosmic axis breathes,
Where root-bound earth with sky’s high branch agrees.
An emerald crown against the sun-kissed blue,
A whispered wisdom ancient and anew.

From Norseman’s saga, Yggdrasil takes form,
A World Tree weathering every storm.
Its leaves, the souls, in cycles born and shed,
A tapestry of life, the living and the dead.

The Weaver of Fates

The Norns, at its roots, their prophecies unfold,
A wellspring of wisdom, secrets to be told.
Odin’s sacrifice, a knowledge deeply gained,
The runes inscribed, his wisdom self-obtained.

Ash staffs of Druids, bearing magic’s might,
Healing the broken, piercing through the night.
A guardian spirit, in its stature tall,
Resilience woven, to stand against the fall.

A Legacy of Resilience

Though blighted now by shadows, grim and gray,
Ash dieback gnawing, stealing life away.
Yet in each dying trunk, a warrior’s stand,
A symbol etched on this afflicted land.

From emerald borer’s wrath, a lesson flows,
Of human patterns, and the pain it shows.
To mend the harm, to nurture, and to learn,
For Ash, a mirror, for our spirits’ turn.

A Bridge of Hope

Even in stillness, the ash speaks of change,
Of life’s enduring, ever-shifting range.
New generations rising, green and bright,
A future blooming, in the fading light.