Duskgild · The Register · Gothic Necklaces & Pendants
Knell Gothic Arch Pendant with a Lab-Created Red Stone
knell · the bell rung to mark a death
925 silver · lab-created red stone · oxidized
Free US shipping · thirty-day returns · twenty-four-hour cancellation · Etsy buyer protection.
Images are AI-generated renders of the design, not photographs of your cast piece — which is made to order in solid 925 sterling silver to this same design.
A chapel window, cut down to the size of a throat. The arch is engraved with scrollwork and topped with a small cross, and a pear-cut lab-created red stone hangs free inside it — a clapper in a bell, roughly 32 mm tall. The window beneath is left empty, so what shows through it is whatever you wear behind. It hangs from a sterling chain, included.
Solid 925 sterling silver, oxidized by hand so the engraving reads dark against the polished edge and the stone keeps the only colour on the piece. It comes from the same chapel as the Troth engagement ring — the same gothic windows, the same red lab-created stone, worn at the hand instead of the throat.
Details
- Solid 925 sterling silver — not plated base metal
- Lancet arch with engraved scrollwork and a cross at the apex, approx. 32 mm tall
- One pear-cut lab-created red stone, bezel-set, hanging free inside the arch
- Open window — it takes the colour of whatever is behind it
- Flat in profile, so it sits flush under a collar
- Sterling chain included
- Made to order
Why you can trust it
- Solid 925 sterling silver. The real metal all the way through, not a coating.
- Any detail of this piece can change. The stone, its colour and cut, the metal finish, the size, the engraving, the proportions — because it is cast after you order, nothing here is fixed. Ask for the changes you want before you buy. Change enough and it stops being this design and becomes yours, at no extra cost beyond what the new piece takes to make.
- Every stone is lab-created and named. No mystery stones, no natural-stone pricing games.
- No plated base metal. Solid sterling all the way through — not silver-coloured brass.
- We tell you how it ages. The dark is an oxidized patina, not a coating — only microns thick. Worn every day it wears brighter along the raised edges while the recesses stay black. That is how oxidized silver ages, and it is not a fault.
- Made to order, and protected. Free US shipping, thirty-day returns, and Etsy buyer protection on every order.
- Wearing it on Halloween? Order by September 23 — it is cast after you order, so that is the last day the making and the post office both fit. Intricate casts take longer; ask us first.
Wearing it
The drop swings when you move, which is the piece's whole argument and the reason to wear it where it is seen rather than under a collar. It sits flush enough for a shirt but earns an open neckline. Pair it with the Troth ring if you want the chapel twice, or wear it against black so the open window disappears and only the red stone reads.
Read more: how our lab-created stones are made →
Made to order
Every Duskgild piece is made after you order it — cast in solid 925 sterling silver, hand-oxidized, and shipped — most pieces in 3–4 weeks; intricate casts can take up to 5. Nothing comes off a shelf. Ordering and payment run through our Etsy shop, so buyer protection is handled for you. Want something that isn't in the register? Commission your own piece — bring a reference, a sketch, or three words.
- You place your order
- We cast it in solid 925 sterling silver
- Most pieces ship in 3–4 weeks — intricate designs up to 5
- Free tracked US shipping
- 30 days to return
Keep dry; polish the raised silver gently and leave the oxidized recesses dark — the finish is meant to deepen with wear.
