Slavic goddess of earth, fate and spinning.
 
Some stones refuse to be tidied up. This one got a setting that didn’t even try.
 
A freeform slab of Siberian charoite, 3cm across, swirls with violet and lilac like threads spun loose, flecked with dark inclusions.
 
With no flat surface, there was never going to be a neat setting for it. Instead it’s held by silver claws shaped one at a time to grip its curves, each finished with a small molten bead, reaching over the stone like roots over rock.
 
The band is just as untamed, with a rippled, hand-worked surface.
 
Charoite is found in only one place on earth, a remote corner of Siberia.
 
Mokosh was the Slavic goddess who spun the threads of fate, and this stone’s swirling fibres look as if they came straight off her spindle.
 
One of one.