The Mokoro Necklace – Ironwood

The Mokoro Necklace in Ironwood runs eighteen bloodstone hulls along a gold-plated sterling silver chain. It is part of the Mokoro Set in Ironwood, from the Mokoro Chapter.

A mokoro is cut from one tree and built to do one job, move weight through narrow water without an engine. The hulls here keep that shape and nothing else. No pavé, no accent stones, no detailing between them. The stone does all of it.

Bloodstone is a dark green jasper, deep enough to read as black in most light. The red is iron oxide, formed inside the stone rather than put there. Wear it to dinner and it is black. Wear it outside and it is not.

The hulls are long, 32mm each, which is what makes the row sit as one unbroken line across the collarbone instead of a string of separate stones. Forty-five carats of it, all natural.

Pairs with the Mokoro Bracelet in Ironwood.