About

A bit about RHUBARB & DISCO

I started wax carving in 2021 for fun, to fuel my obsession with chunky jewellery - there was no big plan to start a business. I’d grown up admiring my mum’s collection of massive rings from The Great Frog: mainly her original glass eye ring that my dad once wore in a meeting to impress people… and lost (we don't mention it around her), and the wedding rings Patterson Riley made for them using Labradorite they’d bought in Sri Lanka.

When I did think about selling, I panicked a bit. Lost-wax jewellery was suddenly everywhere online. I worried people would think I was just another victim of the hobbies everyone discovered during Covid - the holy trinity for 20-somethings: pottery, knitting, and jewellery making. Well, I’d been knitting since I was small and made my fair share of shitty pots, so I might as well start making rings.

But then I started to notice that a lot of what I was seeing was soft, drippy, organic texture with lots of tiny stones. I could relax a bit - because whilst that’s really pretty, it’s not what I’m drawn to making. I want to obsess over tiny lettering, go cross-eyed carving angular faces, and basically give myself arthritis one skull at a time.

RHUBARB & DISCO is chunky silver jewellery made to be worn everywhere: corner shops, mosh pits, the beach, the laundromat, or to just sit on the sofa and slob. No “save it for special occasions” nonsense.

I want you to tear open the box, drop the ring, add your own scuffs, and never take it off. That’s pretty much what we did before doing proper product photography. 🙃

Your turn to dent it.

Enjoy

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