Philomena Jewellery
Every knot is a prayer
Philomena Jewellery makes micro macramé flower jewelry in Halifax, hand-knotted using beeswax thread from Mexico and natural stones. Each piece is made by Fernanda Foster, slowly, one knot at a time.
Philomena Jewellery
Every knot is a prayer
Philomena Jewellery makes micro macramé flower jewelry in Halifax, hand-knotted using beeswax thread from Mexico and natural stones. Each piece is made by Fernanda Foster, slowly, one knot at a time.
Philomena Jewellery
Every knot is a prayer
Philomena Jewellery makes micro macramé flower jewelry in Halifax, hand-knotted using beeswax thread from Mexico and natural stones. Each piece is made by Fernanda Foster, slowly, one knot at a time.
Our Rooted Tale
Knotted from memory, blooming in Halifax
Fernanda grew up in a part of Mexico that is mostly desert but has beaches nearby. As a teenager she went to those beaches and collected seashells, enough to fill her house. She didn't know what to do with them yet. Then she met people in her circle who did macramé.
She learned from YouTube. She paused videos repeatedly to get each knot right, practicing the left and the right, the under and the over. The thread available in her hometown wasn't the best material for the work — harder to control, less cooperative than what she uses now. She didn't know that at the time. But that difficulty gave her grip and precision that easier thread might not have. The hard start built the foundation.
She started combining the craft with what she had collected: making jewelry from seashells and thread, selling pieces on a blanket beside friends at parks and plazas and beaches. Casual, small, very much a beginning. She was also studying industrial engineering, which she never liked. The real plan, the dream she kept privately, was to finish the degree and then leave with a backpack and her jewelry and see what happened.
She has always been drawn to nature. The flowers she recreates in micro macramé now, the tiny detailed pieces she hand-knots in Halifax, come from a long-standing wish to hold on to the natural world through her hands.
Seashells, threads, and a YouTube tutorial
The life that turned 180 degrees
Why she named it Philomena
When someone thought it was plastic
Our Rooted Tale
Knotted from memory, blooming in Halifax
Fernanda grew up in a part of Mexico that is mostly desert but has beaches nearby. As a teenager she went to those beaches and collected seashells, enough to fill her house. She didn't know what to do with them yet. Then she met people in her circle who did macramé.
She learned from YouTube. She paused videos repeatedly to get each knot right, practicing the left and the right, the under and the over. The thread available in her hometown wasn't the best material for the work — harder to control, less cooperative than what she uses now. She didn't know that at the time. But that difficulty gave her grip and precision that easier thread might not have. The hard start built the foundation.
She started combining the craft with what she had collected: making jewelry from seashells and thread, selling pieces on a blanket beside friends at parks and plazas and beaches. Casual, small, very much a beginning. She was also studying industrial engineering, which she never liked. The real plan, the dream she kept privately, was to finish the degree and then leave with a backpack and her jewelry and see what happened.
She has always been drawn to nature. The flowers she recreates in micro macramé now, the tiny detailed pieces she hand-knots in Halifax, come from a long-standing wish to hold on to the natural world through her hands.
Seashells, threads, and a YouTube tutorial
The life that turned 180 degrees
Why she named it Philomena
When someone thought it was plastic
Our Rooted Tale
Knotted from memory, blooming in Halifax
Fernanda grew up in a part of Mexico that is mostly desert but has beaches nearby. As a teenager she went to those beaches and collected seashells, enough to fill her house. She didn't know what to do with them yet. Then she met people in her circle who did macramé.
She learned from YouTube. She paused videos repeatedly to get each knot right, practicing the left and the right, the under and the over. The thread available in her hometown wasn't the best material for the work — harder to control, less cooperative than what she uses now. She didn't know that at the time. But that difficulty gave her grip and precision that easier thread might not have. The hard start built the foundation.
She started combining the craft with what she had collected: making jewelry from seashells and thread, selling pieces on a blanket beside friends at parks and plazas and beaches. Casual, small, very much a beginning. She was also studying industrial engineering, which she never liked. The real plan, the dream she kept privately, was to finish the degree and then leave with a backpack and her jewelry and see what happened.
She has always been drawn to nature. The flowers she recreates in micro macramé now, the tiny detailed pieces she hand-knots in Halifax, come from a long-standing wish to hold on to the natural world through her hands.
Seashells, threads, and a YouTube tutorial
The life that turned 180 degrees
Why she named it Philomena
When someone thought it was plastic
Bestseller spotlight
The piece people reach for first
Three flower earrings
These are the simple ones. Fernanda spends more time on the intricate work, the forget-me-nots she really enjoys, the pieces that take the longest. But the three flower earrings are the ones that go first. Every time she has been to a market, someone has chosen them. The blue ones especially.
She uses beeswax thread sourced from a company in Mexico she knows and trusts. Each earring is hand-knotted from scratch, small enough that people at the stall assume they're plastic before they pick them up. They are not. The detail is just that fine.
Bestseller spotlight
The piece people reach for first
Three flower earrings
These are the simple ones. Fernanda spends more time on the intricate work, the forget-me-nots she really enjoys, the pieces that take the longest. But the three flower earrings are the ones that go first. Every time she has been to a market, someone has chosen them. The blue ones especially.
She uses beeswax thread sourced from a company in Mexico she knows and trusts. Each earring is hand-knotted from scratch, small enough that people at the stall assume they're plastic before they pick them up. They are not. The detail is just that fine.
Bestseller spotlight
The piece people reach for first
Three flower earrings
These are the simple ones. Fernanda spends more time on the intricate work, the forget-me-nots she really enjoys, the pieces that take the longest. But the three flower earrings are the ones that go first. Every time she has been to a market, someone has chosen them. The blue ones especially.
She uses beeswax thread sourced from a company in Mexico she knows and trusts. Each earring is hand-knotted from scratch, small enough that people at the stall assume they're plastic before they pick them up. They are not. The detail is just that fine.
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Meet the maker
Knotting flowers from desert roots
Fernanda Foster
Fernanda is, by her own admission, not someone who finds it natural to share her story publicly. She is private in the way people who do serious creative work tend to be. The work carries what she wants to say better than words do.
She is a painter first. Macramé is what she reaches for when painting is out of reach - which makes it, paradoxically, the art form she has built a business around. Both require the same quality of attention: sustained, patient, quiet.
When she makes a mistake in macramé the only option is to go back and undo the knots, however many, however far back. Sometimes she has made the same mistake ten times in a row and kept going. The work demands that kind of patience, and she has built it over years of practice, not temperament.
What is unusual about how she works is the intention she brings to each piece. While her hands are moving, she thinks about the person who will receive what she is making. She prays for them. This is not a private detail separate from the craft. She considers it as much a part of the piece as the thread itself.
She gives a lot of work away. She always has.
Meet the maker
Knotting flowers from desert roots
Fernanda Foster
Fernanda is, by her own admission, not someone who finds it natural to share her story publicly. She is private in the way people who do serious creative work tend to be. The work carries what she wants to say better than words do.
She is a painter first. Macramé is what she reaches for when painting is out of reach - which makes it, paradoxically, the art form she has built a business around. Both require the same quality of attention: sustained, patient, quiet.
When she makes a mistake in macramé the only option is to go back and undo the knots, however many, however far back. Sometimes she has made the same mistake ten times in a row and kept going. The work demands that kind of patience, and she has built it over years of practice, not temperament.
What is unusual about how she works is the intention she brings to each piece. While her hands are moving, she thinks about the person who will receive what she is making. She prays for them. This is not a private detail separate from the craft. She considers it as much a part of the piece as the thread itself.
She gives a lot of work away. She always has.
Meet the maker
Knotting flowers from desert roots
Fernanda Foster
Fernanda is, by her own admission, not someone who finds it natural to share her story publicly. She is private in the way people who do serious creative work tend to be. The work carries what she wants to say better than words do.
She is a painter first. Macramé is what she reaches for when painting is out of reach - which makes it, paradoxically, the art form she has built a business around. Both require the same quality of attention: sustained, patient, quiet.
When she makes a mistake in macramé the only option is to go back and undo the knots, however many, however far back. Sometimes she has made the same mistake ten times in a row and kept going. The work demands that kind of patience, and she has built it over years of practice, not temperament.
What is unusual about how she works is the intention she brings to each piece. While her hands are moving, she thinks about the person who will receive what she is making. She prays for them. This is not a private detail separate from the craft. She considers it as much a part of the piece as the thread itself.
She gives a lot of work away. She always has.
Thank you for appreciating it, and for buying it.
When I start a new piece, I always begin with a prayer for whoever will end up wearing it. And whenever someone buys a piece, it makes me happy because I get to meet the person I was praying for. I know that might sound unusual. But it felt worth saying.
Every piece takes longer than you might expect. Some earrings take six hours and are only finished after undoing and redoing many mistaken knots. The thread I use comes from Mexico, from a place I have visited, worked into something I hope you find beautiful.
Philomena was a saint who was very difficult to stop. I think about her when I work. Her strength, her conviction, the flowers that have always been associated with her name. I want each piece to carry something of that.
If you came to a market and picked something up: thank you for looking closely enough to see what it was. And if you are buying for the first time: every piece was made with you in mind.
— Fer
A heartfelt Note
Thank you for appreciating it, and for buying it.
When I start a new piece, I always begin with a prayer for whoever will end up wearing it. And whenever someone buys a piece, it makes me happy because I get to meet the person I was praying for. I know that might sound unusual. But it felt worth saying.
Every piece takes longer than you might expect. Some earrings take six hours and are only finished after undoing and redoing many mistaken knots. The thread I use comes from Mexico, from a place I have visited, worked into something I hope you find beautiful.
Philomena was a saint who was very difficult to stop. I think about her when I work. Her strength, her conviction, the flowers that have always been associated with her name. I want each piece to carry something of that.
If you came to a market and picked something up: thank you for looking closely enough to see what it was. And if you are buying for the first time: every piece was made with you in mind.
— Fer
A heartfelt Note
Thank you for appreciating it, and for buying it.
When I start a new piece, I always begin with a prayer for whoever will end up wearing it. And whenever someone buys a piece, it makes me happy because I get to meet the person I was praying for. I know that might sound unusual. But it felt worth saying.
Every piece takes longer than you might expect. Some earrings take six hours and are only finished after undoing and redoing many mistaken knots. The thread I use comes from Mexico, from a place I have visited, worked into something I hope you find beautiful.
Philomena was a saint who was very difficult to stop. I think about her when I work. Her strength, her conviction, the flowers that have always been associated with her name. I want each piece to carry something of that.
If you came to a market and picked something up: thank you for looking closely enough to see what it was. And if you are buying for the first time: every piece was made with you in mind.
— Fer
A heartfelt Note
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