LAVENDER ~ For Happiness

LAVENDER ~ For HappinessFrom mummification to perfume, for washing and scenting clothes, a cure for migraine and a defence against the plague, lavenders history and importance to people is as old as time. Named after the Latin verb lavare meaning to wash due to its association with cleanliness, in medieval times washerwoman were known as lavenders. Jesus mother Mary, was said to have hung his clothes on a lavender bush to dry and thereby transferring his scent to the plant.

discovered a natural mutation with increased fragrance and huge frilly petals more reminiscent of today’s flowers and named it ‘Countess Spencer

Legend has it

and that eating bread with poppy seeds on New Year’s Eve would bring an abundance for the following year

and remember that some charms work best when they’re simply seen and left in place

but was cultivated in England by Henry Eckford specifically for the garden trade during the Victorian era

Our medal cufflinks are made with real flowers in sterling silver or solid gold

recalling heather’s use in brooms and besoms

a child doing so will disappear forever and adults will be led astray by pixies and wander lost until rescued

throughout the middle ages

with each link individually cast for durability and a comfortable drape

and nuns used it to ease “pain of the heart

Available as a pendant only or choose one of our necklace chains here