Website: https://www.elinorcambray.com/

Ellie handmakes sustainable jewellery with a focus on the theme of nature. She has been working as a jeweller for 15 years and is based in the medieval city of Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Ethics has always been a priority for her, and she wanted to ensure this was reflected in her business while exploring her creativity and love of nature.

Materials:

• Hand pierced from recycled sterling silver sheet, textured using a real leaf skeleton and hand-forged to give a delicate curved form. The silver has been oxidised to enhance the delicate veining of the leaf

• The necklace comes with an adjustable 16"-18" sterling silver belcher chain

Environmental responsibility:

• Handmade sustainable and ethical jewellery

• Uses recycled metal

• Scrap metal is recycled with gold and silver scrap melted down to create new sheet, wire and castings

• Natural, responsibly sourced and conflict free gemstones as well as lab grown gemstones

• Recycled paper used for stationary, packaging and business cards

• Recycles any office waste

• 2% of every purchase is donated to support Plantlife’s Ryewater Farm Nature Reserve

Offers:

• Bespoke designs

• Off the shelf for popular items

• Can use gems and materials from other jewellery you have. You would need a consultation to check this

On a personal note: Ellie made my engagement and wedding band – scroll. I had a very specific idea and she helped craft this sharing images of stones and look of the ring before working on it. She would share professional advice about the stones and settings to make sure it would work with my lifestyle. For example, I wanted a different setting for the diamonds but as I am very clumsy, she advised that these claw settings were a lot more secure. I also asked her for leaves on my ring and shared a couple of examples. She worked on an example which I loved and approved before she started work.

She is my go to person for any jewellery as I love the nature aspect of her work as well as her drive to be sustainable in a business that is fraught with so much controversy.