Ecliptic BraceletApril 2009 Sterling silver A client asked me to design a bracelet for his wife on the occasion of the birth of their son, and pretty much gave me the freedom to do what I wanted to. He didn't want a cuff or a bangle, so I decided to make something of an amalgam between a chain and a sectioned bracelet. I was playing with different designs and doodles, and eventually decided to fashion the decorative links of the chain after a closed version the symbol

We're pricing the setting as though it were silver

which is appropriate to this piece

October 2015

since I was making a jeweler's tool that also happened to be a piece of Judaica

My hope is that every year when they hang this ornament on their tree

longer and shorter lengths of iron and gold wire were cut as needed

It's interesting to note that I usually make "two-thumbed" hamsot

Which in turn brought me back to the traditional order of the Sefirot

I chose palladium (which is in the platinum family) because it's slightly darker than platinum (for better contrast) and because

saves and protects

this pendant is packed with meaning

etc) or white gold that has been rhodium-plated