Handcrafted with Ethically Sourced Metals and Gemstones

Ruby bracelet designs, entirely crafted from recycled or ethically sourced metals and fair trade gemstones; unique cuff and bangle styles; unusual one of a kind designs; affordable prices – dozens of international designers – ready to wear or custom pieces.

Ruby jewellery sold in shops and online, especially from mass-produced sources, are often made without consideration for where the metal or gemstones come from, how the environment was affected during the mining process, how obtaining metals and ruby gemstones may have adversely affected the lives of workers/miners/craftspeople, or whom the ruby gemstone or precious metal profits may be benefiting. This is especially true in the case of ruby gems.

Why Not To Buy Ruby Bracelet Creations Made From Burmese Rubies

If Burmese rubies are used in jewelry, the gemstones purchased from that region will have profited a military dictator and added to human suffering, not to mention that the stones being traded from the area (and are often used in the affordable commercial ruby jewellery), will have been filled, enhanced and/or heat treated despite claiming to be natural. What alternatives are there? There are many buying options when it comes to loose ruby gems as well as ready to wear creations that use pink sapphires and red rubies, even pigeon blood rubies of the finest quality.

Alternative Choices For Ruby Rings and Bracelets

There are ruby rings and jewelry designers and outlets around the world that ONLY buy ethically sourced metals, blood free diamonds and fair trade rubies that do not come from Burma (Myanmar). Many of the fine designers who create custom diamond, sapphire, ruby, gold and silver bracelets use metals and gemstones that are mined in such a way as to minimize the negative effects on the environment and benefit the lives of workers. Many of these unique, conscientious jewelry designers are choosing to buy ruby gems from private companies such as RubyFair, who mine stones in Tanzania, not Burma, and who guarantee their gems are natural, untreated, not heated, not filled or enhanced in any way.

Where To Buy Ethical Ruby Bracelets and Ruby Jewellery

Here are some of the designers and jewelry shops that offer hand crafted jewelry and only use ethically sourced gemstones and metals, and who offer their customers the choice of either lab created rubies or ruby gems from ethical mines like RubyFair.

1. One designer who creates contemporary ruby bracelet designs is April Doubleday who works from her studio in North Devon, in the UK and crafts pieces with both genuine ruby gemstones (ethically sourced) and lab created stones. She offers custom pieces as well as a ready to wear collections, using Ruby Fair ruby gems, amongst other choices.
2. Another place that’s unique and offers conscientious gemstone jewellery buyers an outstanding selection of pieces (in Brighton) is called Baroque Bespoke Jewellery. Designers include Pippa Knowles, Jason French, Kyle Mcintosh, and a variety of top guest artists who create collections of gemstone jewellery and work with ethically sourced ruby gemstones from RubyFair in wedding rings, ruby bracelet creations and an array of pieces ranging from bridal sets that use diamonds and sapphires to bespoke designs that use raw gems in hand hammered gold settings.
3. Alan Vallis at OXO, in London, is another designer who uses ethically sourced gemstones to create ruby bracelet styles as well as a variety of unusual mixed gemstone rings, necklaces and custom creations.

4. McCaul Goldsmiths, in Exmouth Market, London have a range of delicate creations using a variety of gemstones, amongst them the rubies from Ruby Fair. From bespoke commissions to singular collections of fine gold jewellery, McCaul Goldsmiths offers a chance to have the perfect sapphire, diamonds or ruby bracelet using ethically sourced materials.
5. Mahailia Jewellery Design, situated in West Loch Tarbert, Argyll Scotland, is a place for handcrafted jewellery that uses only responsibly sourced materials and gemstones ethically obtained through fair trade. The beauty of their jewelry is that it’s inspired from nature found on the west coast of Scotland. Mahailia will set your rubies in 18ct fair trade gold or recycled silver. You can also select from a variety of gems, including those from the Ruby Fair mines. Mahailia Jewellery Design emphasizes simplicity and nature.

These are just a few suggestions for places where you can order your bespoke or ready to wear gemstone jewellery. These designers operate online as well as offering personal service in private studios or small shops.

When deciding on a specific ruby bracelet, pendant or ring style, be sure to ask for RubyFair gemstones or ethically sourced stones, and get gold and diamonds as accents also from artisans who deal only in fair trade products. Let’s all try to move away from Burmese rubies until such time as these precious gems cease to fund a corrupt dictatorial regime.

For more information on what Ruby Fair is all about please see the related post about Ruby Gems. If you’d like more recommendation on where to shop for rings, ruby stud earrings and wedding rings with blood free diamonds and ethically mined rubies (including ruby eternity ring bands), continue to browse articles that deal with individual ruby jewellery items.