Chữ Nôm Birthdate BraceletsDecember 2016 14 karat white gold A good friend of mine commissioned these bracelets for his wife to celebrate their two sons. He had seen the Princess Cuff that I'd done in the early Aughts, and wanted something similar. His wife is Vietnamese, so we used the ch nm characters for the numerals in their sons' birthdates to make up the shanks of the bracelets. Modern Vietnamese is, of course, written in a French influenced Latin script. While it isn't

but it appears to be either anti-oxidizing silver (Argentium or Sterlium

like something that Jacques-Yves Cousteau might have recovered from the floor of the Mediterranean

She noted that they were beautiful

To fully understand the weight of the word

stayed close to the maidservants of Boaz

including a Japanese type of mail called kikkō that uses hexagon-shaped plates

which means good fortune and luck

but through the process I wound up designing something completely different

but as I was shaping the business end of the tamper I realized that I had the opportunity to make something beautiful

The clasp is hallmarked (twice) with a capital B in a circle

This special piece was commissioned by Congregation Etz Hayim in Arlington VA to commemorate the rabbi's 15-year-anniversary at the shul

The characters 情比金堅 (qīngbĭjīnjiān) in this traditional Chinese saying literally translate to "love is stronger than gold"—although in ancient Chinese