Artist Collaboration

Fibres of Meaning

A Collaboration with Claudia Alarcón

Artist Collaboration

Our first artist collaboration turns to the source of our creations, the Earth. The practice of creating high jewellery centres on celebrating stones formed over millions of years by the Earth, and harnessing their striking beauty to craft masterpieces that enchant. A similar process occurs for Wíchi textile artist Claudia Alarcón, with whom we are honoured to present our first ever artist collaboration. It is also the first time fine art textiles have ever been encased in high jewellery objects.

Artist Collaboration

Necklace I

Claudia Alarcón's weavings are a nexus of significance. The ancestral practice of hand-weaving the spun fibres of local chaguar plants, whose juices are used as natural dyes, is a core component of Wíchi culture handed down through untold generations of women. According to Wíchi tradition, women descended from the stars nightly along chaguar threads they themselves wove.

In Necklace I, this takes the form of a hexagonal encasement featuring pear and baguette-shaped colourless diamonds and vibrant yellow sapphires — speaking to the geometry and expansiveness of Alarcón's weaving practice. Natural saltwater pearls embody the warm white of the weaving, whilst the black silk threads linking them represent the black in the weaving.

Radiance

Resplendor Pendant

The Resplendor Pendant honours Alarcón's first artistic textile, whose title is Resplendor (Radiance). Using magenta, yellow, and black threads, Alarcón created a design that references the Sun's glow.

As jewellers, our practice also centres on light — particularly the way diamonds shine as they are worn and turned in one's hand. Yellow gold was selected for the weaving's encasement, its warm radiance mirroring that of the weaving, while diamonds of varying size represent a constellation in reference to Resplendor's cosmic theme.

Material & Workmanship

Centuries-old tradition, a century of craft.

Our collaboration unites the process of weaving with the workmanship of our goldsmiths, combining centuries-old Wíchi tradition with our century in high jewellery — a synergy of material, style, and form, and the first high jewellery piece ever made to encase a fine art textile.

The process entailed months of research and testing by our master goldsmiths. In our London workshop, we developed an advanced mechanism to protect Alarcón's weaving, entirely encasing the commissioned sample with a level of precision and technical mastery characteristic of the world's leading jewellery craftspeople.

The Artist

Claudia Alarcón

Claudia leads the Silät collective, a group of over 100 Wíchi woman weavers from the Gran Chaco region of northern Salta, Argentina, and is a member of Union Textiles Semillas — weavers, artists, and activists highlighting the work of textile artists from northern Argentina.

Her work was included in the 2024 Venice Biennale and the Arts of the Earth exhibition at the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. Her exhibition Claudia Alarcón & Silät: Living, Weaving opened at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) in March 2026. In 2025, she was named the ARTnews Emerging Artist of the Year.

LACMAMASPMALBADenver Art MuseumMinneapolis Institute of Art

Represented by James Cohan, New York · Cecilia Brunson Projects, London · Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala.

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