Caravan Fusion Necklace

Silver traveled down from the plateau. Silk traveled west from the lowlands. They met, over centuries, on the caravan roads — a Tibetan trader exchanging a hammered amulet for a Miao coil of wire, somewhere between a mountain pass and a river crossing. This necklace is a small piece of that meeting: hand-hammered Tibetan silver set with a single turquoise, finished with a coil of Miao filigree, on a hand-woven silk cord. It is not any one tradition. It is the moment two of them shook hands, and the handshake held.