White Beach Tile Necklace and Earring Set

THE ARTIFACT

These white tile fragments were reclaimed from the shores of Lake Erie. Each piece is unique. I have hand-wrapped each of them in silver wire to follow the shape of the tiles and added accents of hematite.

DIMENSIONS & SCALE

• Artifact type: reclaimed Lake Erie tile
• Artifact size: necklace approximately 1.75 inches tall x 1.25 inches wide, earrings approximately 1 inch wide x 0.25 inches wide (see reference photo with quarter for visual scale)
• Metal: silver wire
• Earring style: Artisanal French ear wires
• Drop length: 1.75 inches

THE ORIGIN

These unique porcelain artifacts began as early 20th-century industrial or domestic tiles, reclaimed by the lake and meticulously sculpted by decades of shifting sands into the smooth, organic ‘shore-gems’ they are today.