Butterfly Wing Pendant Necklace

Real things died to make this, and that's kind of the point. There's a long tradition in gothic and dark aesthetic jewellery of finding beauty exactly where most people flinch, and a pressed butterfly wing suspended in sterling-plated resin sits right in that sweet spot between natural history museum and Victorian mourning cabinet.

Each pendant contains actual preserved butterfly wings, which means no two are identical, and the iridescence under light has that slightly unsettling quality that great alternative fashion jewellery should have. Wear it with a black lace collar or a band tee, it doesn't matter. It's doing its thing either way.

Sterling-plated pendant with rhodium chain. Real pressed butterfly wings, preserved in resin.