Pearl and Copper Beaded Collar Necklace with Copper Cross

For the Water Goddess — the one who keeps sea glass on the windowsill and a prayer in her pocket.

There is a kind of woman who never separated the sacred from the beautiful and saw no reason to start now. This collar was made for her. Eight-millimeter glass pearls, warm and faintly luminous, strung close to the throat on antique copper, with a small copper cross falling just below the hollow of the neck — exactly where a pendant should sit, catching the light every time she turns her head.

It sits high, a true collar, so give it an open neckline: a white linen shirt unbuttoned one past sensible, a scoop-neck tee, a black knit dress in December. The pearl-and-copper pairing is unusual and that is the point — warmer than silver, softer than gold, and kind to skin that has seen some sun.

18" with a 2" extender · 8 mm glass pearl beads · antique copper chain · 2" copper cross pendant · clasp closure · $40