Collection
Broome and Australian South Sea pearl strands, necklaces and pendants, hand-knotted and finished in our Cottesloe workshop. Choose a graduated strand, a uniform choker or a single pearl on a chain, and have it cared for by the same hands that knotted it.
88 pieces
The strands and pendants here centre on Australian South Sea pearls from the waters off Broome and the Kimberley coast, grown in the silver-lipped Pinctada maxima, the largest pearl-producing oyster in the world. Thick nacre gives these pearls a deep, soft lustre that glows rather than flashes, and that lustre is the first thing we grade for when pearls are matched into a strand. Tahitian pearls bring naturally dark peacock and charcoal tones, Akoya a smaller, mirror-bright white, and both appear through the collection alongside freshwater pieces.
Choosing usually starts with a simpler question: a strand, or a pendant? A strand is pearls as the jewellery itself, graduated or uniform, and it asks for silk care over the years. A pendant sets a single fine pearl on a chain and wears more easily every day. Clients often weigh a graduated strand against a lighter chain that can take a pendant later, and seeing both in daylight at the Cottesloe atelier usually settles it faster than any photograph.
Every strand is hand-knotted between pearls, so the nacre never rubs and a broken silk cannot scatter the strand across a floor. The same bench restrings and alters strands, ours or anyone's: we recommend fresh silk every few years for a strand worn often, sooner if the knots flatten or the strand goes slack. A pearl farm can sell you a beautiful strand; a workshop keeps it beautiful, and that aftercare is the difference we ask you to judge us on.
Strands, chokers and pendants read differently in person. Book time at the Cottesloe atelier and compare Broome pearls side by side before you choose.
