Gold Update 2026
We want to share a thoughtful update on the changing realities on the value of gold. Gold has always been at the heart of our work, and in recent years, its price has risen dramatically. Over the past year alone, the price of gold has doubled due to global economic and political insecurity.
While we absorb as much as we can of the increased costs, our prices will have to reflect the current value of gold.
I fell in love with gold nearly thirty years ago when I started working in India. I fell for its warmth, its soft glow and ability to mould into anything, a flower petal, a bird, to wrap around an uncut diamond and bring its gentle majesty to any piece.
Gold is a fascinating and mysterious material, formed even before our solar system, before the creation of our planet, it has sat on our earth’s crust for 4.6 billion years.
Since humans started to work in gold, over 216,000 tons have been extracted, roughly the size of a seven-story building. All of that gold is still in use after 6000 years - It neither corrodes nor rusts, it is the ‘eternal’ material because it is indestructible and will last forever. It is probable that in any piece of modern jewellery there may be traces of Etruscan or Egyptian gold that has been melted and reused, it is never out of circulation.
Humans started to link gold with currency and national wealth, and today the price of gold has reached an unprecedented high. I remember being in the jungles of Choco in Colombia a few years ago, buying gold from the lady panners, and the price of gold leapt one morning - the war in Ukraine had started, a whole world away, and yet the gold price, so sensitively linked to all global activity, went up immediately.
Gold has always been an insurance policy, from Roma gypsies in Europe, the nomads in the Sahara Desert, to farmers in India. Women particularly have invested in, relied on, worn, bought, sold and inherited gold for every rite of passage, encircling wrists all over the world for centuries; gold bangles, chains, rings and earrings have meant independence and safety, to melt when needed and enjoyed when not, to be passed down through the generations, and to pass that security on. A safe haven, an investment, a beautiful material imbued with meaning and emotion in a jewel. Gold has been a part of human history forever.
As a business, we are committed to working responsibly with gold. We have worked with gold from around the world, from the first Fair Trade gold from the Cotopata mine in Bolivia, the Colombian panners in Choco, to the skilled goldsmiths from a long line of master goldsmiths in Myanmar and India. Whenever possible, we have worked with small-scale mines that were certified, ensuring the impact on both miners and the surrounding environment is as protected as possible as well as working with recycled materials. Care for craftsmanship and the environment remain central to everything we do.
We want to reassure you that our values, quality, and support of the artisans we work with all over the world will remain intact, but gold is finite and while we absorb as much as we can of the increased costs, our prices will have to reflect the current global gold prices.
We hope this transparency helps you understand the reality behind the pieces we create, and the care, skill and material that go into them.