The lapis comes from Badakshan, where the ancient mines continue to produce this heavenly blue stone. The ring has a contemporary graphic feel with its rectangle setting and sits elegantly across the finger. Hand made in Kabul, Afghanistan by the men and women artisans of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation.

Turquoise Mountain was founded in 2006 by HRH The Prince of Wales to revive historic areas and traditional crafts, to provide jobs, skills, and a renewed sense of pride. Training and employing young people in meaningful creative jobs is vitally important now in Afghanistan when the young desperately need hope and a sense of purpose in a beautiful country tragically caught up in violence and conflict.

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