What is Handwriting Jewellery? A Complete Guide

Handwriting jewellery takes a message someone you love wrote by hand like a special note or a few words in a card, and engraves it onto a bracelet, necklace or charm exactly as it was written. Every loop and slant of the original is copied stroke for stroke, so what ends up on your jewellery is theirs and not just a font that only looks similar.

What is handwriting jewellery good for, beyond keeping a keepsake safe? It works with almost anything handwritten, a birthday card from years ago or your child’s own wobbly first letters, and once it’s engraved onto silver or gold, that precious bit of paper becomes something you can wear every day instead of tucked away in a drawer.

A Quick Answer: What Is Handwriting Jewellery?

• Handwriting jewellery is real handwriting engraved onto jewellery, not a font or a lookalike script
• All we need is a clear photo of the handwriting when you order, so the original note or card stays safe with you.
• We can engrave handwriting on necklaces, bracelets, charms and keyrings, in silver, gold and rose gold
• If you have a particular message in mind, but you don’t have it in its full form from your loved one, we can create a bespoke message using different sources of each letter.

How Does Handwriting Jewellery Work?

Turning someone’s handwriting into a piece you can wear starts with something you already have like an old birthday card kept safe in a keepsake box or a note you’ve kept for years in a drawer. You just need to send us a clear photo of it, taken on your phone or scanned in, so the original never has to leave your hands.

1. Once that’s ready, ordering through our website only takes a few steps:
2. Head to our Handwriting Jewellery collection and choose from our range of designs, each made in 925 sterling silver or 18k PVD gold.
3. On the product page, choose whether to upload your handwriting image now or send it to us later. If you’re not ready yet, that’s fine. We’ll get in touch to collect it and only start once everything’s exactly right.
4. Pick any options that apply to your design, like necklace chain length or additional charms.
5. Add an engraving to the back if your design allows it, whether that’s another piece of handwriting or something different like a photo, a print or a date.
6. Then simply checkout, and we’ll take it from there.

What You Need to Get Started

You don’t need anything fancy to get started, just a clear photo of the handwriting you want us to use, taken in good light with the whole message in frame.

That’s all our engravers need, since they work from the image itself rather than a professionally staged shot. There’s no need to send us the original card, letter or note either, the photo is all we ask for, so that can stay exactly where it belongs, with you.

Can You Combine Handwriting from Different Sources?

Yes, absolutely! And there’s more than one way to do it, depending on what you want the finished piece to say.

If you’re bringing together two different people’s handwriting, a design like our Duo Disc Handwriting Necklace is perfect because it holds two pendants side by side, each engraved with its own message. A necklace or charm that engraves on both sides works well too, with one side holding one person’s handwriting and the other holding the second person’s.

You can also combine handwriting from a few different sources, for example a couple of words from one card and a line from another. Just send us photos of everything you’d like included and let us know the exact wording you want engraved, (there’s a space for this at checkout), and we’ll do the rest.

How Many Words Fit onto Handwriting Jewellery?

How many words fit onto your handwriting jewellery depends on the piece you choose and how long each word is, since five short words can sit just as clearly as four long ones.

Our smaller charms usually hold around one to three words per side, while a larger heart charm on a necklace can hold closer to five, so the design you choose shapes how much you can include.

If you’d like a longer message, engraving both sides of your piece doubles the space, or our rectangle handwriting keyring gives you more room to work with. If you’re ever unsure, we’re always here to help with any questions you have.

What Can Be Engraved on Handwriting Jewellery?

Almost anything handwritten or drawn can be engraved onto a piece of handwriting jewellery. Here are some of the most popular choices.

• A note or letter: We’ll engrave the words exactly as they appear on the original, whatever it’s written on.
• A message written just for the piece: You don’t need an existing note, you can write something specifically for your jewellery instead, whether in your own handwriting or someone else’s.
• A date or location: It doesn’t have to be just words either. You could choose a date like a wedding or a birthday, or a location such as coordinates for somewhere that matters to you.
• A child’s first writing: Their name or a few early words from when they were just learning to write can be something truly special to keep close.
• Drawings: If your little one loves to draw, or you have a doodle from a loved one you want to keep close, we can engrave that too.
• Photos & Prints: If handwriting jewellery doesn’t feel quite right, we can engrave photos, pawprints, fingerprints, handprints and footprints too, so whoever your’re remembering can have a place by your side.

Types of Handwriting Keepsakes

Handwriting can be engraved onto more than just necklaces and bracelets. Here’s the full range, split into jewellery you wear and keepsakes you keep close in other ways.

Handwriting Jewellery

• Handwriting necklaces: Worn close to your chest, a necklace keeps a message from someone you love near your heart.
• Handwriting bracelets: You’ll catch sight of the words on your wrist throughout the day, which makes a bracelet a good choice if you want the message somewhere you’ll see it regularly.
• Handwriting charms: A charm can be added to a bracelet or necklace you already wear, so it joins a collection of other pieces that already mean something to you.
• Handwriting cufflinks: An option for men who want to carry a message. They work especially well as gifts for weddings

Handwriting Keepsakes

• Handwriting photo frames: Pair a photo with the handwriting of the person in it, and you get a keepsake for a shelf or bedside table rather than something worn.
• Handwriting keyrings: Practical enough to use every day, a keyring keeps a message with you all day.
• Handwriting trinket boxes: A small box engraved with handwriting gives you somewhere to keep other keepsakes, like jewellery, small notes or a photograph.
• Handwriting Christmas tree ornaments: Hang a message from someone you’ve lost on the tree each year, so they’re part of the same Christmas as everyone else in the room.
• Handwriting watch straps: For anyone who already wears a smartwatch, a strap engraved with handwriting turns something you check dozens of times a day into a keepsake too.
• Handwriting wallet cards: Slim enough to sit behind your cards, a wallet card keeps a message with you everywhere you go.

Why Choose Inscripture for Handwriting Jewellery?

Trusting someone with a loved one’s handwriting is an important decision and you deserve to know that whoever’s recreating it will treat it properly. It shouldn’t be recreated through a font that only mimics the shape of the letters but should be engraved as though your loved one has written it straight onto the metal, with every tiny detail preserved.

That standard goes back to how Inscripture started. Our Handwriting Jewellery collection began with a birthday card, when our founder Hayley recognised her nan’s handwriting on the envelope before she’d even opened it, and got thinking about just how recognisable someone’s handwriting really is. Not long after, in 2016, she started engraving handwritten words onto jewellery instead of leaving them on paper, and Inscripture became the first company in the UK to do it.

There was no one else doing it yet, so we learned everything ourselves, order after order, including how to read a faded signature or a line scrawled in a rush.

Hayley and her partner Andre have built every part of Inscripture together since, and they’re still hands-on with the business today, from design through to how each order gets made. We’ve picked up a few awards along the way too, largely because the same care that went into that first piece back in 2016 still goes into every one we make now.

Conclusion: What is Handwriting Jewellery?

Handwriting jewellery is someone’s real handwriting, not a font or a copy, engraved onto a piece you can wear every day. It becomes special because handwriting is so recognisable, in the way you’d know your mum’s signature or your child’s first attempt at their name anywhere. And turning that into something you wear and keep close means it’s with you far more often than the card or note it came from ever could be.

If you’ve got a message like that of your own, whether it’s still sitting in a keepsake box or one you’re yet to write, our Handwriting Jewellery collection is ready whenever you are.

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