Coiled Twice
Coiled Twice
Here’s a quick overview of this unique piece:
- Ring: Rings have symbolised eternity, unity, and love for thousands of years, remaining ever‑popular.
- Bronze: An ancient copper-tin alloy with rose-gold warmth, enduring strength, and a naturally evolving patina often imitated, but never equalled.
- Design Type: Spiral – Nature's favourite pattern, it appears in everything from galaxies to seashells to the double helix of life itself.
- Collection: Echoes of the Ancestors – A collection inspired by ancient traditions and timeless artistry.
At Stuff By Rox, I create unique, handcrafted pieces designed to make you stand out from the crowd. Owning a one-of-a-kind creation is a truly special feeling. Every piece is individually crafted from raw materials without formers or moulds—which means even pieces featuring my signature designs are made especially for you with love and care.
This piece is part of the Echoes of the Ancestors collection, inspired by ancient traditions and timeless artistry.
Bronze
Bronze is an ancient alloy made from copper and tin, and one of the earliest metals shaped by human hands. Its discovery marked the beginning of the Bronze Age, when access to tin — often traded over long distances — became as valuable as the metal itself. Prized for its strength and warm, rose-gold colour, bronze has been used in art and jewellery for thousands of years.
Made from a mixture of copper and tin, Bronze has a warmth and depth that feels instinctively human. Over time, a natural patina can develop if left unpolished, adding individuality and character to each piece. With a quick polish using a silver cloth, its bright lustre can be restored.
I adore working with Bronze. Knowing it’s an alloy of copper and tin — the same combination that shaped tools, art, and trade routes in the ancient world — gives it a sense of history you can feel through its core. There’s something immensely grounding about holding it, as if it carries a direct connection to ancient bronzesmiths and their work.
Bronze inspires me to create jewellery that feels both ancient and modern. Formed from copper and tin, it instinctively feels like a link to our ancestors — a material that once connected distant places through trade and craftsmanship. That sense of shared human history affects me in a way no other metal does.
Ring
Rings have been worn for thousands of years, with the circular design symbolising eternity, unity, and protection. In ancient Egypt, rings were exchanged as tokens of love and immortality, while Roman betrothal rings marked promises of marriage. Medieval signet rings carried authority and lineage, and were used to press into wax as seals. Whether it's to symbolize commitment, power or just because they're pretty, rings are just as popular now as they've ever been.
Dimensions
While I try to be as accurate as possible, measurements are a rough guide to give you a sense of scale and overall balance.
Total height: 32.5mm
Total width (at widest point): 22.6mm
Spiral
The spiral is everywhere once you start looking. Galaxies spiral. Seashells spiral. The very DNA that makes you who you are spirals. It's nature's way of saying 'this is how things grow, this is how things move, this is how things are.'
A simple spiral design connects you to all of that. It's not trying to be complicated — the spiral itself does all the work. My job is just to render it in metal and let its ancient, universal beauty speak for itself.
I love the spiral because it's simultaneously the simplest and most profound shape in existence. One continuous line, curving in on itself or out from itself, and yet it contains the mathematics of growth, the pattern of evolution, the very structure of life.
There's a reason the spiral appears in art from every culture and every era. It's primal, fundamental, instantly recognisable as something meaningful even if we can't quite articulate why. Our ancestors carved it into stones and painted it on cave walls because they sensed what science would later confirm — the spiral is woven into the fabric of reality.
My Spiral designs honour that universality. These aren't complicated pieces; they don't need to be. The spiral carries its own weight of meaning, its own accumulated significance from millennia of human recognition.
Wearing a spiral is connecting yourself to the largest and smallest structures in existence. Galaxies spiral. Hurricanes spiral. The cochlea in your inner ear spirals. It's a reminder that you're part of something vast, something patterned, something beautiful.
The spiral might be the first abstract symbol humans ever created. Before we had words for growth or change or evolution, we had this shape that somehow captured all of them. It's been sacred longer than any religion, meaningful longer than any philosophy.
I keep coming back to spiral designs because they never stop revealing new things. The same form that represents cosmic expansion also represents inner journey. The same curve that echoes seashells also echoes galaxies. It's infinitely scalable, infinitely meaningful.
People who choose simple spiral pieces often understand something important — that the profound doesn't need to be complicated. Sometimes the deepest meaning comes in the most elegant form. The spiral says everything it needs to say with one continuous, beautiful line.
This piece has found its forever home