MATERIALS

Silver is one of nature’s noble metals. Considered to be precious both for its purity and lustrous properties, many ancient cultures have linked it to healing, immortality and protection. 

All Brave Edith jewellery is made using solid sterling silver, which is a minimum of 92.5% pure silver and a small proportion of copper, zinc or palladium. The additional metals make the alloy more durable as 100% fine silver is too delicate for most jewellery. To preserve nature’s reserves of this beautiful material, we only source silver from reputable suppliers and recycle our silver wherever possible.

All our gold items are gold vermeil, which is the highest grade of gold-plated sterling silver. To be classed as gold vermeil, jewellery must be made of solid sterling silver and plated with a minimum of 1.5 microns of 10 carat gold.  Brave Edith takes this standard higher, and we plate our gold vermeil items with an extra thick hard layer of 2.5 microns, 14 carat gold. This enables our plating to last longer than both standard gold-plated items and other gold vermeil pieces of thinner thickness.

 Learn more about our sterling silver jewellery here.

Learn more about gold vermeil here.