Silver,every day.
Film, 12s loop — the studio at 8am: benches, torches, Elenor sawing a band, window light
ByElenor started at a kitchen table with a jeweller's saw, a borrowed torch and one opinion: the things you wear most should be the things you love most.
Elenor trained as a sculptor and fell into jewelry by accident — making rings for friends who couldn't find anything they wanted to wear every day. The first collection was twelve pieces, sold from a folding table at a Providence market.
Today the studio is six people and a ten-minute walk from the caster we've worked with since the start. We still make everything in small runs, still in sterling silver, and still with the same question: would you wear it on a Tuesday?
Portrait, 35mm — Elenor at the bench, mid-laugh
How a piece is made
Four stages, about three weeks.
Process — sketchbook, pencil, ring blanks
Every piece starts as a pencil sketch, then a rough model in wax or card, tested on the body before anything is cast.
Process — hands carving wax, macro
Elenor carves the master in jeweller’s wax by hand. Small marks from the tools are kept on purpose.
Process — molten silver, flask, sparks
Masters are cast in 100% recycled sterling silver by our caster in Providence, in runs of fifty or fewer.
Process — polishing wheel, finished collar
Each piece is filed, polished or oxidised, and checked by hand. Then it goes in a pouch and on a shelf.
Fewer things,made better.
All of our sterling is 100% recycled and certified. Packaging is recycled card and cotton, and nothing ships in plastic.
We make pieces in batches of fifty or fewer. It means less waste, and room to improve a design between runs.
Snapped chains, bent hoops, lost backs — send any ByElenor piece back and we will fix it, free, for as long as you own it.
Studio — front room, display table, morning
Detail — trays of finished rings
Try it on in person.
Our Providence studio is open Thursday to Saturday by appointment. Come in, try everything, and see what's on the bench.