Trois Tessellées Vân Cam

Three shells sit at the front of this necklace, each one a tessellated cone — patterned in warm amber and cream, their surfaces mapped with small interlocking markings like a mosaic worn smooth by the sea. Vân cam is Vietnamese for orange grain, which is exactly what these shells carry: a warm, sun-bleached colour that deepens toward the tip of each cone.

They're found along the central Vietnamese coast around Khánh Hòa, gathered from the same stretch of shoreline near Nha Trang. The strand between them is small pale shell chips, hand-knotted one at a time, leading the eye inward to the three pendants at the centre.

Because the shells are found, not made, the patterning and tone of each cone vary — yours will be its own arrangement of markings, its own depth of colour.

Hand-knotted in Khánh Hòa, Vietnam. Beachcombed tessellated cone and accent shells.