Alina Garden Flower lapis hoop earrings

Silver with lapis

Inspired by the flower motifs found on Afghan embroidery, these beautiful and versatile silver earrings can either be worn complete as drop earrings or separated and worn as small lapis studs.

Afghanistan was the source of lapis lazuli for the ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, as well as the later Greeks and Romans.The best lapis lazuli is found in Badakhshan province in north-eastern Afghanistan and has been used for millennia in jewellery. The word lazuli is derived ultimately from the Persian lazhward, the name of a place where it was mined and which came to be associated with the stone and, eventually, with its colour.