A child learns to write their own name.
The letters lean, stretch and change almost as quickly as they do.
Paper doesn’t last. The mark can — if you let it.
The Childhood Archive begins with the most personal mark they can make: their name in their own hand. We trace its exact outline and raise it from a softly rounded silver form.
We don’t tidy the proportions or swap it for a font. We retain the untouched photograph, make only the adjustments required for safe casting, and show both layers in your proof.
Childhood changes quickly. Jewellery shouldn’t erase the evidence.
Their handwriting, lifted from paper and held in silver.
The studio
A one-person studio
Perth, Western Australia.
Orders are modelled, proved and packed from this bench. The workshop and product images on the site are design studies until there are pictures of real casts from founding orders.
The First Name Necklace