The Crystal Cherry Blossom Brooch.

The story

Cherry trees flower for one short week across the Korean peninsula in early April and every photograph of those days ends up in a family album. The blossom carries the symbol of the moment that will not last. Korean ornament has translated the flower into metal, enamel, and bead for decades. The brooch puts the bloom into a body that holds year-round.

Crystal beads set in fine wire around a central crystal, shaped into five petals in the cherry blossom register. The back is hand-finished. The steel pin fastens cleanly without bending the cloth beneath. The whole piece is sized to land at the collar of a jeogori or at the lapel of a spring coat without crowding the line.

Worn at a spring wedding outdoors where the cherry trees are still in flower and the photographs land under them. A festival lunch where the wardrobe answers the week. The brooch that lets the wearer match the trees without explaining the match. Five petals carry the season at the chest.