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Commemorate Your Loved One
Inscripture is an award-winning online store selling customised jewellery, trinkets, and other memorabilia. We create everything from accessories engraved with a loved one’s handwriting to jewellery that contains a lock of hair or the ashes of the deceased. Among our many different products, Ashes Jewellery is some of the most sought after. But despite the rising popularity of ash jewellery, there is still confusion as to what this type of jewellery is for.
Losing a loved one is always distressing, and the thought of no longer having them with you inevitably takes its toll on your well-being. Jewellery that’s designed to hold a small amount of a loved one’s ashes offers the opportunity for the owner to honour their memory and keep them close at all times.
Ashes jewellery, also known as cremation jewellery, is a type of memorial jewellery created to commemorate a loved one who has passed away. This could be a spouse, a parent, a dear friend, or even a pet. As the popularity of cremations increases, so wearing or keeping ash jewellery has become more common too.
If the idea of carrying someone’s ashes with you wherever you go seems strange, it may surprise you to learn that it has become a more acceptable practice in recent years. But it might even come as a bigger surprise that memorial jewellery is by no means a new thing. Historically, it has been a commonplace practice in some parts of the world for centuries.
History Of Ash Jewellery
The idea of keeping loved ones close through jewellery is far older than most people realise. While ashes jewellery feels modern, its roots stretch back centuries.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, families in the UK wore mourning rings engraved with a loved one’s name and dates, a treasured symbol of connection and remembrance. By the Victorian era, memorial pieces became even more personal; it was common to preserve a lock of hair inside a brooch or pendant. Even Queen Victoria kept a lock of Prince Albert’s hair after his passing, worn close to her heart.
As cremation grew in popularity during the 20th century, families looked for new ways to honour those they had lost. Some kept ashes in urns, others chose to scatter them, but many sought something more intimate, a way to keep their loved one’s memory present in daily life.
This led to the resurgence of ashes jewellery: a personal, subtle, and deeply meaningful keepsake that allows you to carry a part of someone special with you wherever you go.
How To Have Ashes Jewellery Made
Your memorial piece should reflect your loved one and the relationship you shared, which is why every item we make is crafted with intention, care, and personal meaning.
We offer two meaningful ways to create your memorial piece:
• Ashes Into Jewellery – crafted by our artisans placing the ashes, hair or fur
• Self-Fill Ashes Jewellery – designed for you to fill at home, allowing you to complete the process in your own time
Both options are safe, discreet and deeply personal.
1. Choose Your Design
Explore our collection of pendants, rings, bracelets, charms and more.
Each piece includes either:
A dedicated memorial setting where we carefully place your loved one’s ashes, hair or fur
or
A secure chamber for self-fill jewellery, allowing you to complete the process privately at home
Every design is created to be safe, lasting, and deeply meaningful.
2. Personalise Your Piece
For Ashes Into Jewellery (crafted by us)
• Choose your resin colour
• Add Aura Shimmer (diamond dust)
• Request a Sacred Moments Video of your piece being made (optional)
• Provide your loved one’s name for your Certificate of Authenticity
For Self-Fill Ashes Jewellery
• Choose your preferred piece in your chosen metal
• Self-fill items can be engraved with your loved ones handwriting, photo, prints or standard personalisation. Simply upload a photo of a card/note, favourite photo or their prints, and specify how you wish your item to be engraved.
3. We Carefully Craft Your Keepsake (Ashes Into Jewellery)
When you choose for us to set the ashes, your piece is created with the utmost respect.
Handled With Care & Dignity
Your loved one’s ashes, hair or fur are treated gently and securely at every stage.
Made One Piece at a Time
We never batch-produce memorial jewellery.
Your piece is crafted individually, from start to finish.
Sterile, Controlled Studio
All memorial settings are created in our clean, sterile workspace for precision and purity.
Secure Memorial Setting
The ashes, hair or fur are placed into your chosen design and combined with resin (and optional Aura Shimmer) to form a permanent, protected keepsake.
4. Your Ashes Kit or Self-Fill Kit
For Ashes Into Jewellery
Before crafting begins, we send your Ashes Collection Kit, which includes:
• A secure, labelled ashes pot (sized for a teaspoon of ashes)
• Step-by-step instructions
• A ring sizer (if required)
• A prepaid, tracked returns label
Track your loved one’s ashes at every stage of their journey
Once we receive your kit back, your jewellery is created with care in our sterile studio.
You will receive your finished piece beautifully presented along with your Certificate of Authenticity.
For Self-Fill Ashes Jewellery
Your jewellery will arrive with your requested personalisation, accompanied by:
• A funnel kit
• Simple instructions
This allows you to carefully place the ashes at home, privately and in your own time.
Your Finished Keepsake
Whichever option you choose, your jewellery will arrive beautifully presented in a Free Gift Box, ready to wear, cherish and treasure forever.
Other Customised Jewellery To Remember Loved Ones
Not all keepsakes need to contain ashes. We also offer:
Handwriting & Message Jewellery
Preserve a message or name in your loved one’s handwriting or your own.
Photo, Fingerprint & Paw Print Jewellery
Featuring your favourite photographs, their fingerprints, paw prints, nose prints, handprints or footprints.
Children’s Artwork Jewellery
Treasuring their creativity forever through engraved drawings.
Soundwave Jewellery
Transform a voice note, song, heartbeat or message into a stunning soundwave pendant.
We’re always here to guide you toward the piece that feels right for you.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How much ash do you need for a necklace?
When putting ashes in necklaces in the UK, only a small amount of cremains is required. Around a teaspoon-sized amount should be sufficient for a pendant, a ring, or any other item of jewellery. Not only will you get to wear a beautiful piece, but you can also carry a piece of your loved one with you at all times. Anything unused is safely returned.
Can ashes turn into jewellery?
The ashes don’t turn into jewellery per se, but each piece of cremation jewellery we offer has a unique design and can be used as a sort of miniature urn to hold some of your loved one’s ashes. Unlike traditional cremation jewellery, the ones we offer are beautiful, stylish and sturdy pieces that you can readily wear on any occasion.
What is memorial jewellery?
Memorial jewellery is handmade and incorporates some of the cremation remains of an individual’s loved one. Memorial jewellery is also known as cremation jewellery, funeral jewellery, or remembrance jewellery. A wide range of accessories such as heart lockets for ashes can be filled with a deceased person’s cremation remains, allowing you to take a piece of them anywhere you go.
What is a cremation pendant?
This is a type of memorial jewellery. Other pieces of this type of jewellery may come in the form of a ring, bracelet, or keychain with a hollowed-out interior compartment. The best ashes jewellery feature interior compartments covered by a threaded screw, which can be filled with a pinch of cremated ashes or a lock of the deceased’s hair.
Can you put ashes in a ring?
Yes. The memorial rings we offer serve this exact purpose. A ring is just one of the many ways to preserve a loved one’s memory. All you need is a pinch of the cremated ashes of your loved one, which will then be put into the interior glass compartment of a memorial ring that you can wear anywhere, every day.
Can I put my dog’s ashes in a necklace?
Yes! In fact, we have this option available for our cremation jewellery. Many people consider their pets as family, and it’s only right to honour them as such when they pass away. A dog ashes necklace is created by adding a small pinch of your pet’s ashes, or soil from a special place, inside a secret compartment in the pendant.
Things You Can Do With Your Loved One’s Cremains
In recent times, it has become traditional to scatter a deceased person’s ashes in a special location – one which holds a significant meaning to you or your loved one. However, nowadays, there are other ways you can preserve a loved one’s cremains, such as incorporating their ashes into jewellery, a charm, or a keepsake.
This is a practical way to preserve a loved one’s memory as you go through the grieving process. With this type of memento, you can hold on to a piece of your loved one, in an urn pendant, for instance, to keep their memory close to you wherever you may be. Inscripture creates customised jewellery to hold your deceased loved ones’ ashes. Our memorial accessories are not only beautiful and stylish; they also serve as a practical way to keep a loved one close. These custom pieces can be in the form of a ring, pendant, or even as keychains.
The Unexpected Rise Of Cremation Jewellery
While ashes jewellery feels contemporary, the idea of preserving a loved one’s memory through jewellery has existed for centuries. During the Victorian period, mourning jewellery was commonly worn as a symbol of remembrance. Although cremation was not as common then, families often kept a small lock of hair inside a pendant or locket to honour someone they had lost.
As cremation became more widely chosen over the years, people naturally looked for new ways to keep a loved one close. Some families still choose to scatter the majority of the ashes, but keep a tiny amount to place inside a locket, ring, bracelet or pendant, allowing their memory to remain with them in a discreet and meaningful way.
Today, cremation jewellery has become a deeply personal way for people to feel connected to those they miss, offering comfort, closeness and a unique way to honour their story.
What To Do With Your Pet’s Cremated Ashes
For many pet owners, losing a pet is just as devastating as losing a family member and they deem it equally important to honour their memory when they pass away. There are various ways of doing this with your pet’s cremains nowadays.
1. Keep in your home. Many families keep their pet’s ashes at home in an urn.
2. Bury the ashes. This is also quite common, especially for people with a spacious garden.
3. Scatter the ashes. This can be done at your pet’s favourite spot or even at home.
4. Plant the ashes or make a tree memorial. Some people prefer to celebrate a pet’s
memory with another living thing, such as a memorial tree.
5. Purchase ashes jewellery. This is a practical way to hold on to the memories of a
deceased pet, as you can wear the piece whenever or wherever you may be.
Preserving a loved one’s memory, whether a pet or a family member, can be done in a variety of unique and practical ways. Ashes jewellery is one of these. To own a meaningful and special memento of your loved one, whoever that might be, why not view the beautiful yet affordable pieces created by Inscripture here on our website? We have a wide selection of lovely ashes necklaces, rings, bangles, and cufflinks available.
Explore our ashes jewellery collection, or reach out if you’d like guidance, we’re here to help you choose the piece that feels right.
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