{"product_id":"turquoise-sterling-silver-threader-earrings","title":"Turquoise \u0026 Sterling Silver Threader Earrings","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrive far enough west and the sky starts to change. Not just the color — the weight of it, the way it presses down against dry land and opens up all at once. There's a blue out there that doesn't exist anywhere else, caught between mineral and atmosphere, stone and air. The Persians called turquoise \"piruzeh\" — victorious — and wore it as protection. The Navajo called it the fallen sky. Every culture that has encountered this stone has understood the same thing: it holds something larger than itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurquoise has been traded across the American West for thousands of years, long before borders gave the landscape its current names. It forms slowly in arid rock, copper and aluminum and water conspiring over millennia to produce that unmistakable blue-green. No two stones are alike — each carries its own matrix, its own internal map of the earth that made it. To set one in silver is to honor a tradition as old as adornment itself, one that runs from ancient Puebloan silversmiths through the trading posts of the nineteenth century to the independent studios of today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese threader earrings from Bijou by SAM pair a small, genuine turquoise stone with clean sterling silver lines, letting the material speak without interruption. The threader design draws a slim chain of silver through the ear and lets it fall in a quiet, asymmetric drop — modern in feel, ancient in material. At 1½ inches including the ear wire, they sit close and light, weighing just 1 gram per pair. Sterling silver and naturally hypoallergenic, they're built for skin that notices everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted in Montana by Bijou by SAM, a woman-owned studio.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bijou by SAM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43666629885999,"sku":"014-E-10014","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/1065\/8863\/files\/IMG-4253.jpg?v=1746407347","url":"https:\/\/haroldandhazel.live\/products\/turquoise-sterling-silver-threader-earrings","provider":"Harold \u0026 Hazel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}