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A Step-by-Step Guide to Cleaning Your Jewellery

bring you along with me through my whole design process, from initial research, inspo to sketching through to the jewellery making process, in real time. As I plan to launch my next jewellery collection

The art of Keum Boo, how I apply the gold. Keum Boo is an ancient Korean technique used to bond 24k gold foil onto fine silver using heat and pressure. I use this process by hand in my studio to create my handmade silver and gold jewellery. If you have bought a piece of jewellery from the Achillea Collections, or follow my processes on Instagram, you may have wondered what gold I use and how the embellishments are applied to the silver pieces. How Keum Boo Works. The gorgeous

When I started Achillea Jewellery, I knew I wanted to create sustainable handmade jewellery in the UK. Every piece is made slowly in small batches using fine silver, 24k gold and thoughtful materials, inspired by nature and made, by hand, with time with care. I never set out to shout about sustainability or to talk about the importance of it when considering how I wanted to make, and package my jewellery. In fact I probably have avoided talking about it, as I feel it is a wo

I’ve always believed that jewellery holds so much meaning beyond style. That’s why I started Achillea Jewellery. Named after the golden yellow wild flower, that represents Everlasting Love.

Slow-made, small-batch, and full of intention. Every piece of Achillea Jewellery begins life in my workshop in Eton, Windsor, not in a...

When I’m designing jewellery, I think about the kind of pieces people reach for day to day without thinking. Not saved for special occasions, not trend driven, but worn again and again because they feel like you.

My handmade jewellery is inspired by warm sunlight, wildflowers and the changing seasons, creating nature inspired silver and gold jewellery made in the UK. I wanted to share why. When I stepped away from the fashion industry and into making, I found myself craving peace, out of London. I found it outside, walking in nature around my new home in Windsor, Berkshire. I started noticing change of seasons, the trees, hearing birdsong in morning light. I would sit by the river in

It’s a story I’ve heard so often lately: a fashion job that once defined me, working in the same office day in and day out, with a long...