Enameled Memento Mori Rings - These Skeleton rings are enameled with black glass in the recesses and polished to a high shine inside and brushed finish outside. If you are looking for an oxidized ring, they are in a different listing here.
Choose from these 5 variants, each width is its own skeleton design.
5 DESIGNS:
1)Thin - 2.7mm - This thin band is thicker than the narrow band and has a Skeleton flanked by crossbones on one side and Hearts and an Hourglass on the other. In a size 5 there is no blank space on this band there is as much band covered as I possibly can and still make it to be sized from 5-11 in response to your reviews! I can make it smaller but it will remove one of the pattern borders.
2)Narrow - 3mm - This narrow band has a tiny Skeleton with shy knees flanked by hearts on one side. This band is about 1/2 blank half-round band depending on your size.
3)Medium - 4mm - This band has a Skeleton flanked by Crossbones on one side and an Hourglass on the other.
4)Wide - 5.5mm -This band has a large skeleton flanked by 2 bars. The skeleton spans the majority of the band, so I think the smallest I can make this ring without cutting off the design is a size 5.
5) Widest - 8mm - This band has a large skeleton with his hands up making the sign language for "OK" topped by crossbones. The skeleton spans the majority of the band, so the smallest I can make this ring without cutting off the design is a size 7, but I can cut off the crossbones for sizes 4.5-6.5. See photos to see what the back will look like in your size.
These have turned into one of my best selling designs. I ship them around the world year-round!
Here is a process video of me carving the 2.7 mm design https://youtu.be/f4eoAzuaNhg?si=FuXI-hcZd-TjD6t_
Sterling Silver and Black Vitreous Glass Kiln-Fired Enamel
Made to Order. Usually ships in 3-5 days, depending on how busy I am.
This ring looks great as part of a stack, as a wedding band, a right-hand ring, or a promise ring, and all by its damn self, thank you very much. And as always, my rings are Unisex. Y’all wear what you want!
I made these Memento Mori rings for my older sister Jill, a famous poet and Professor who turned 50 this year. Well, I made the first one for her, the second because I wanted to make more knees, the third because I wanted to redo a jawbone. Skeletons are rad, even for nerds like me. And they look better the more you do.
While I was thinking about my design, I researched the history of Memento Mori jewelry. Memento Mori, literally translated as “Remember Death”, was a jewelry style popular in the 16th., 17th, and 18th C. as a tribute to the deceased, and a reminder to live a just and moral life.
We McDonough girls have always said, “Life is one big party that starts right after high school”, a sarcastic misquote of someone who thought that less of a good time was a better plan. Well, from where I sit that seems like as true of a 21st. C. restating of “Memento Mori “as any. Time friggin flies! Live every day to the fullest, as you see fit. If we had a sisters’ motto it would sound something like that.
So, here is my 21st C. Memento Mori ring collection. Each is carved in wax by hand and then cast using the ancient lost wax process. I then make a mold from which I can pull a wax copy of the original that can be resized to fit you and cast.
Enjoy! Live! 50 years pass in the blink of an eye.
