Ancient Egyptian Faience Pendant
Ancient Egyptians crushed quartz or sand, mixed with alkalis, and glazed with a silica mixture, to produce turquoise-colored ceramics called faience. This circular amulet hangs from Jewels’ signature hand-woven cord.
Jewels, the founder of her eponymous, Marrakech-based business, scours market souks all over North Africa and Asia to source her rare antique amulets, tools, coins, artifacts, talismans, and trade objects.
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Jewels Arts
Morocco
Jewels, who goes by one name, designs bold, statement jewelry in her home studio in Marrakech, where she employs women artisans to create and assist with her designs. Each piece pairs antique treasures she has collected, such as ancient bronze coins, Tibetan charms, Moroccan fibulae, and coral, with exquisite hand-set silver settings.
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Heritage Craft, Reinterpreted
Re-imagining India’s most beautiful textile traditions. Every garment begins with both a reverence for tradition and a devotion to the maker’s hand.
A Movement Made by Women’s Hands
Since 2013, we've connected thousands of women artisans across 50+ countries to the growing global market for ethical luxury goods—building sustainable marketplaces, funding capacity-building grants, and forging the long-term partnerships that turn craft into lasting economic sovereignty. We’re not correcting poverty. We’re correcting a market failure: the systematic undervaluing of women’s work.
Years in action
13
Countries
50+
Artisans
100K+