Five beautiful CRED pieces, five inspiring stories

CRED seeks to create fair trade jewellery that you can treasure for a lifetime. While achieving design excellence, each piece has a story about how it was created, and that makes it all the more meaningful. You can also wear CRED proudly in the knowledge that it hurt nobody and nothing in the making, and infact helped communities to carve themselves sustainable businesses and brighter futures. In this gallery, Greenmystyle.com has picked five beautiful pieces, with five inspiring stories.

1. Mali Necklace, £115

The Mali necklace pictured here is an intricate and striking 40″ length chain with satin finish links made from recycled silver. It is part of the Mali collection, designed by Sir John Cass graduate Annabel Panes, a winner of  CRED’s Responsible Jewellery competition. A bracelet and earrings complete the range.

Annabel says: “The collection is inspired by the West African country of Mali. The pieces tell the story of the river Niger which brings life and hope to the barren landscape. The links map the patterns found as the river descends to the sea and the river splits into a web of tributaries that make up the Niger Delta. This bird’s eye view of the river is what inspired the line and shape found in each link that makes up the collection.”

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