Daryaft - Lapis Lazuli Silver Bracelet

From the Mehr collection by Orah Jewels and Crafts, Daryaft is a lapis lazuli silver bracelet built around restraint. A single piece of lapis lazuli from Afghanistan sits at the center of a sterling silver band, the stone positioned to face the wrist rather than point away from it, a wearing position that makes the color visible to the wearer as much as to anyone else.

Lapis lazuli from Badakhshan, Afghanistan has been mined from the same high altitude deposits for over six thousand years, making it one of the oldest continuously extracted gemstone materials in recorded history. The deep blue color is produced not by a surface treatment or enhancement but by lazurite, a mineral that forms inside the rock under specific metamorphic conditions and generates a blue of extraordinary interior density. Ancient civilizations ground it into ultramarine pigment for their most important paintings and shaped it into objects of ceremony and protection. The pyrite inclusions that thread gold through the field of blue in Daryaft are part of the stone's geological identity, iron sulfide that crystallized alongside the lazurite during formation, and they are not removed or concealed. The white calcite veining, where present, belongs to the same story.

The bracelet form in Daryaft is deliberately understated. The band is narrow enough that the lapis reads as the primary element rather than the silver, and the setting holds the stone securely without framing it so heavily that the frame competes with the stone face. At 8 inches, this is a bracelet sized to wear alone or alongside other pieces without bulk. Daryaft was made for someone who wants to carry a material with genuine geological and historical depth on their wrist without announcing it. Made in Lahore at the Orah Jewels and Crafts facility. One piece.

Stone: Natural Lapis Lazuli (Badakhshan, Afghanistan)
Metal: Sterling Silver
Size: 8"