Big is beautiful, at Ember Jewellery we have been busy making some big stuff, take a look at the latest trends to hit our workshop this year, it's big... it's bold and it's definitely out there.

The Constance Collection is our latest collection of designer jewellery. It comes as part of a 3 piece collection, ring, earrings and necklace.

Inspired by the flowing lines in celtic sculpture and art, it symbolises the harmony of life in an ever continuous pattern never ending and the idea that there is no real beginning or end, but one constant cycle.

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The Huguenot cross by Ember jewellery Belfast

The original Huguenot cross was designed and then made by Mystre of Nîmes in about 1688. It was thought to have been designed around the Hospitaler Knights of St John of Jerusalem's emblem also known as the Knights of Malta, a religious and Crusader order founded in Jerusalem in the 7th century AD.

The Maltese Cross is closely associated with fire and is the symbol of protection of fire fighters around the world. The symbolic meaning behing the maltise cross is as follows:

The four petaled flower an open four-petal Lily of France in which each petal radiates outward in the shape of a "V" to form a Maltese Cross. The four petals represent the Four Gospels. Each petal, has at its outside edge two rounded balls at the corners. These rounded balls represent the Eight Beatitudes.

The four lilly petals are joined together by four fleur-de-lis, also reminiscent of France, and each fleur has 3 sheafs which when added up represent the Twelve Apostles.

The space between the fleur de lis and the centre roughly make up a heart shape, This shape, a symbol of loyalty, suggests the seal of the great French Reformer, John Calvin.

A dove descending from the pendant representing the Saint Esprit or "Sainted Spirit" -- the guide and counselor of the Church, is suspended from a ring on the lower central petal.

Finally the centre of the Ember cross a red garnet cabochon which represents the blood shed for mankind on the cross at Golgotha.

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