Pieces
Shell art and jewelry documented as editorial artifacts. Each piece is available by inquiry only.
Spotted Nerite Specimen
A single spotted nerite shell — leopard-patterned, palm-sized, and heavy as a stone. Found on a painted green table on the North Shore, where it had been sitting for years.
Momi Shell Lei
A spotted momi shell lei with graduated puka accents and a hand-braided closure. The kind of piece that makes you reconsider what you thought you knew about shells.
Nassarius & Cowrie Strand
A strand of nassarius shells interspersed with polished cowrie accents, laid on lava rock like a sentence written in bone. Raw. Unfinished. Deliberate.
Sunrise Kahelelani Necklace
A double-strand kahelelani rope with a sunrise shell pendant the color of a North Shore dawn. Roughly four hundred shells, hand-drilled, hand-sorted, strung on monofilament by someone who doesn't believe in hurrying.
Sunrise Strand
A single strand of matched sunrise shells, graded for morning light. Each shell shows the amber-to-pearl gradient that gives this species its name.
Puka Gradient Strand
A single-strand puka shell necklace sorted by size from seed-small at the clasp to nickel-wide at the center. Each shell naturally drilled by the ocean. No two the same thickness.
Kahelelani Rope — Original Strand
Eleven months of sorting, grading, and stringing. A single rope of kahelelani shells from the west side of Niʻihau — the rarest shell lei material in the world.
Kahelelani Rope
A single-rope kahelelani strand sorted by color gradient. The most labor-intensive lei in the Hawaiian tradition — each shell hand-selected, drilled, and strung on twisted thread.