Lois Silver Earrings

## Lois Silver Earrings by Miriam Wade Jewellery There is a particular quality of light in the Irish midlands — soft, unhurried, falling across ancient earthworks and rolling drumlin fields that have held their shape for thousands of years. It is this landscape, so quietly extraordinary, that Miriam Wade carries into her studio in Mullingar, County Westmeath, and breathes into silver. The Lois earrings are born from that same stillness: their double-sided domed circles echo the curved silhouette of Ireland's ring forts, those enduring monuments to a civilisation that understood beauty as something worth building to last. To wear the Lois earrings is to carry a small piece of that ancient Irish terrain with you — not as a souvenir, but as something genuinely felt. The pattern pressed into each dome is not decorative for decoration's sake; it is a conversation between a skilled goldsmith and the land she has known all her life. --- Miriam Wade trained at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin before completing the rigorous Jewellery & Goldsmithing Skills programme with the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland in Kilkenny. She graduated as a qualified diamond grader with a deep command of metallurgy — a foundation that informs every decision she makes at the bench. The Lois earrings are crafted entirely by hand in sterling silver, with each domed circle shaped, patterned, and finished individually. No two pairs are ever quite identical; the hand that made them ensures that. The earrings hang from handmade ear hooks, and every piece carries the Irish hallmark, independently verified by the Irish Assay Office in Dublin — the oldest assay office in the world, and a guarantee of both metal purity and provenance. Each pair is presented in a Miriam Wade branded gift box, ready to be given exactly as it arrives. - **Material:** Sterling silver (925) - **Hallmark:** Irish Assay Office, Dublin - **Finish:** Hand-polished - **Closure:** Handmade ear hooks - **Presentation:** Miriam Wade branded gift box - **Origin:** Handcrafted in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland --- Some gifts mark a moment; others mark a person. The Lois earrings belong to the second kind. They are the sort of piece a mother passes on, or a daughter receives on the morning of her wedding. They suit a significant birthday — a fortieth, a fiftieth — when the occasion calls for something with genuine weight and meaning behind it. They are equally at home as a graduation gift for someone stepping into their own, or as a considered anniversary piece between two people who have long since moved past the gesture of flowers. For anyone with Irish roots living abroad, the Lois earrings carry something harder to name: a connection to a particular place, rendered in silver, that no distance can quite diminish.