Ruth Finkelstein Jewelry Designer

When I was a little Girl, one of my two favorite things was reading and being read to. Nothing could beat the trip into a completely different world and the goings on there.

From the minute I could read, more often than not, you could find me with my nose buried in a book reading away.

Lights out meant nothing to me and my sister - or maybe that is not quite accurate. Lights out actually meant we needed to creep out of bed into the door way to continue our reading on the sly, and with noses buried in our books, our ears were tuned to the end of the passage, just in case we needed to make a giggly dash to our beds in the event of a parent closing in.

Time passed and I still continued reading a lot, probably more than most, until recently, when I had my children and seem to run out of time and mainly brainpower.

That has not dulled my love for books and stories though, and the fact that I am a jeweler is evidence of that, because jewelry might as well be a synonym for stories.

Very rarely will you come across a piece of jewelry that lacks a story.

It could be a heirloom piece, like the ring my mother wears. She inherited it from my paternal grandmother, and will in turn leave it to my brother’s wife, who will continue the tradition, leaving it to the wife of her first born son and so on.

It could be an engagement ring brought at great expense with great excitement, or, in the case of one of my friends it could be the ring that was brought to replace the engagement ring which was lost one day, playing with the dog on the beach. This dog, like all dogs, loves running after balls that are thrown for him into the sea, and luck had it that as my friend threw the ball into the sea, the ring flew right in after it.

"Replacement" Ring

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The connection between jewelry and stories is not just on a personal level. The actual materials jewelry is made out of are full of history tradition and myth. There is hardly a gem stone to be had that is not strongly connected to mythology and believed to be full of qualities and abilities that in the end will rub of on or influence the wearer.

Throughout history, there have been many influential pieces of jewelry that have supposedly affected the course of history, like the ring of King Solomon.

Making jewelry is in a way like writing stories, or to be more accurate, supplying future buyer or wearer of my jewelry with the paper and pen with which to write their own personal story.