Simplest Knot Ring, handcrafted in Sydney using a single length of 1.5mm thick round 9ct Gold wire, a simple enough job but one requiring good technique and concentration to arrive at a cleanly-crafted look.
Knots as decorations are as old as fire building, and have always been used as symbols of attachment; the Victorian English, with their love of designs that sent a message, created in Gold and in Silver “knot” rings of wondrous complexity, and all crafted entirely by hand.
The above “Simplest Knot Ring” weighs 3.4 grams. At current world Gold price, December 2024, the base cost of the Gold granules required to produce an item of this weight represents almost 50% of the final retail price before GST, and this before factoring in labour and skill, and the inevitable”wastage”, where in the process of making a Gold item a certain amount of Gold is inevitably lost, in Gold dust or filings not re-captured, in a clipping skying off over the ear somewhere; all bench jewellers will put this “wastage” at approx 10% of the weight of the finished product.