New Product - Dragonfly Patterning and Manchu Rings

Ottoman rings bronze and silver over metallic copper with dragonfly patterning

This blog post is a little late in coming, but better late then never perhaps? Our carved rings have been incredibly popular, however most of our patterns paired best with our middle-eastern rings and we wanted to add another pattern which would go well with our Asian styled rings. The dragonfly inhabits a special place in Asian art, and the patterning in their wings is incredibly striking, so we thought to combine the two and a new design was born. There was a question of orientation though, how should the wing be laid across the ring, and so we created the two above samples and put it to a vote. Longitudinal, the style on the right, won and so was added to our lineup.

On a related note, we’re now patterning our Manchu rings circumferentially, that is to say the pattern covers the surface the entire way around the ring. This might make it an excellent canvas for the aforementioned dragonfly pattern. Just a thought…..

Manchu ring silver over noctural blue, weave pattern.