Materials & inlay

The material is part of the story.

Inlay brings contrasting materials together within a recessed area of a piece — base and inlay balancing color, texture, and form.

Set into the metal.

Method: Stone set into metal, not on top of it.
No prong, no bezel: Nothing raised to catch or bend.
Built in sections: Each pocket in the band is filled with material cut, fitted, and bonded into place.
Finished flush: Shaped and polished level with the metal — the picture runs all the way around; an inlay ring has no front.

Prismatic Mosaic · 13 sections

Swatches are illustrative colors, not photographs of the stones. Every material is natural unless tagged.

Natural stone: Cut from real material. Two sections of the same stone won’t match exactly — that variation is the evidence the piece is what it says it is.
Onyx: The black: the contrast everything else is measured against.
Synthetic opal: Made opal — grown to be opal, with opal’s play of color, produced rather than dug. Not fake; honestly named. Here: orange and purple.
Dyed coral: Red bamboo coral, dyed for its color — said in its name, not in a footnote.

Natural

Cut from real material, with natural variation.

Dyed

Named dyed in the material’s name itself, not in fine print.

Synthetic

Made, not mined — and always called synthetic.

Metal: Stainless steel — hard, polishable, takes a clean finish and holds its sections as one surface.
Profile: Polygon: flat facets instead of a smooth round outside.
Sections: Each facet takes its own inlay material.
Finish: Polished.

The verified list is short because the practice is young. New core materials are added when work in them exists to point to.

Are synthetic opals fake?

No. Synthetic opal is made opal — produced rather than mined, with opal’s structure and play of color. What would be fake is calling it natural.

Is dyed coral a problem?

Only if it’s hidden. Dyeing is a long-standing way coral takes a deep, even red; here you are told in the material’s name.

Is the ring in the photos the one I’d receive?

Yes. Every piece is one of a kind, photographed as itself — it is the ring that ships, in days, not weeks.

Can inlay rings be resized?

No. There is no plain section to cut, stretch, or rejoin. See ring sizing.