Lumoi

Lumoi is an on-line ethical jewellery boutique offering handmade pieces designed and made by Louise Hall from her studio in London.

Louise has worked in the jewellery industry for 9 years. She started her career as a buyers assistant on the jewellery desk for a TV shopping channel. 

This fueled her passion for jewellery and allowed her to work with a wide range of designs from the UK and abroad, visiting many of the UK based jewellery shows and the Vincenza Jewellery show in Italy.

Lou went on to London's jewellery quarter, Hatton Garden where she then worked for a major Diamond and Gold importers. Intrigued by the intricate processes involved, specifically in handmade jewellery production, Louise decided to dedicate her spare time to exploring jewellery making techniques and design herself, often taking apart broken jewellery and working it into a new design.

In Jan 2008 Lumoi was born. 

Since launching Lumoi in 2008, Lu has launched a jewellery recycling service for all of your unwanted/broken jewellery in exchange for a voucher to purchase a new piece from lumoi.com.

Lumoi jewellery

Fascinated by the uniqueness of nature Louise transforms creatively marked stones and precious metals into objects of beauty.

"I believe jewellery is a personal and precious possession, I create jewellery for ladies who appreciate handmade arts. 

Louise's favourite medium to work with is Precious Metal Clay (PMC) which is a wonderful material that is relatively new to the jewellery industry. PMC is finely ground pure silver particles mixed together with an organic binder to form a clay like material. The 'clay' can be shaped and

moulded by hand and interesting textures and shapes can be made with the use of hand tools.

Once dried PMC can be fired in a kiln or with a hand torch. Here's where the magic happens; during the firing process the organic binder holding the silver particles together burns away, fusing the silver (sintering), leaving a solid piece of .999 pure silver.

Once cooled the piece of jewellery is burnished by hand and polished in a tumbler to add shine and strength. One of the best things about PMC for us (and you) is it's low impact on the environment.

The ground fine silver particles are recycled & reclaimed from scraps, x-ray and film plates.

Much of her PMC jewellery is teamed with beautiful natural stones and sterling silver where strength is needed (chains, clasps etc.)

Louise predominantly works with fine silver (.999), sterling silver (.925) and 9ct gold (.375).

Every piece of Lumoi Alchemy jewellery has been hallmarked by the London Assay Office and carries an appropriate mark, guaranteeing the quality of metals we use. Louise also uses base metals in some of the designs recently launched in her Chromatic range, these metals do not require a hallmark.

Our precious metals are bought from suppliers who are members of The British Jewellery Association (BJA). They have their own code of ethics which members must abide by.