• WELCOME TO ARIL JEWELS

  • A little bit about us...

    Aril Jewels makes fine jewellery with the soul of the past, designed and made by hand in London, for the way women actually live today.

    If you’ve ever stood in a museum jewellery gallery and felt that pieces from the past have a warmth, character and joy that modern jewellery rarely matches - you’re exactly right. I have spent my career completely obsessed with it. But antique jewellery was mostly made for ladies delicately sipping tea who never had to do the washing up. I wanted to create jewellery that would be entirely yours, with your history and your meaning, that you could wear to work, on the tube, to a party, or while sipping tea, with all of the best qualities of jewellery from the past. That’s why Aril Jewels was born.

  • Chloë Woodmansterne MA (Hons.) FGA DGA co-founder of Aril Jewels and gemmologist

    Hi, I'm Chloë

    Chloë Woodmansterne MA (Hons), FGA DGA
    "Growing up, my family dragged me (very reluctantly) around antique shops constantly. They were looking at furniture, paintings, ceramics, you name it. I was only ever looking at the jewellery"

    By fifteen I’d started silversmithing classes, which was when my obsession with sparkly things became something that was probably going to be a big problem for my bank balance. It became a career instead: gemmology and diamond diplomas at the Gemmological Association in London in my gap year, a history degree at the University of Edinburgh, and years working across fine jewellery in London, from Selfridges and Liberty through to the ateliers of Mayfair.

    Working in fine jewellery at the highest level taught me what genuinely exceptional work looks like and, just as importantly, how it is made and when it falls short. It is also where I developed strong opinions about the makers worth working with, which is why every Aril piece is made by the best specialist craftspeople in London and the UK.

  • Our inspiration

    Aril Jewels pieces draw on specific historical eras and iconic women from the past, but they are never direct replicas of historical pieces. The research goes deep, because that is where the interesting details are, and a history degree will do that to you. We look at what each era feels like - from jewellery (of course), to paintings, textiles, decorative arts, and cultural shifts - and try to distil that into a piece with an echo of the past but made very much for today.

    Everything is handmade in London using antique old-cut diamonds and coloured stones I source and select myself, chosen for their individual character. Much of what we make is bespoke, working with clients on something completely one of a kind, with meaning built in from the start. The goal is always a piece worth keeping for a very long time, and perhaps handing down one day to become a future antique.

  • Kayla Rimmon, co-founder of Aril Jewels painting one of the gouache renderings we're known for

    Kayla Rimmon

    Aril Jewels was co-founded in late 2022 with Kayla Rimmon, an award-winning jewellery designer who trained at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Kayla has a particular brilliance for colour and gemstone combinations, and it is her hand that produces the sketches and hand-painted gouache renderings that first bring an Aril design to life. She remains a much-loved collaborator on Aril's design work.

  • Why Aril Jewels?

    The pomegranate has been a symbol of abundance, fertility, love, and marriage for thousands of years the world over. When extended as an offering, it signifies goodwill and the best of intentions from one heart to another. It is the jewel-like seeds that make up a pomegranate that are called arils. At the heart of Aril Jewels is the desire to express love and a connection with the past. So what more perfect symbol, or name, could there be?