The Mokoro Necklace – Midnight

The Mokoro Necklace in Midnight runs eighteen hulls along a gold-plated sterling silver chain, alternating solid lapis with white topaz. It is part of the Mokoro Set in Midnight, from the Mokoro Chapter.

Ten hulls are cut from lapis, the deep blue stone mined in Afghanistan for six thousand years. Its color does not shift with the light, which is unusual for a stone this saturated, so the blue reads the same at a desk as it does outdoors.

The eight between them are filled edge to edge with white topaz. Each holds nine stones that step down through eight sizes from 4.5mm to 1.2mm, so the pavé narrows at exactly the rate the hull does. Filling a tapered shape with one stone size is quicker and it never looks like the shape. This does.

Eighty-two stones in all, every one natural, on a row that alternates dark and bright the whole way across the collar.

Pairs with the Mokoro Bracelet in Midnight.