Kilahus - Kilahus

Precious metal

I use high-quality recycled silver from trusted suppliers. Recycled silver can be extracted from recycled computers, old jewelry, and precious metal objects.

Every fine-quality jewelry can have a couple of marks – at least a maker’s mark and a hallmark. The maker’s mark has information about the jeweler who crafted the jewelry, and the hallmark indicates how pure the precious metal is.

In Finland, only companies can use the maker’s mark, and since Kilahus isn’t a company yet, I don’t have my own mark. I’m part of a collective company called Osuuskunta Artesaari, and their mark is “PIKI”, which I use in my own jewelry – for now, at least.

Gemstones

I get my stones from the gemstone cutters in Europe. I use natural stones as well as synthetic ones; there’s no difference in chemical properties between natural and synthetic stones, the only difference is that the synthetic stone is man-made.

Precious metal

I use high-quality recycled silver from trusted suppliers. Recycled silver can be extracted from recycled computers, old jewelry, and precious metal objects.

Every fine-quality jewelry can have a couple of marks – at least a maker’s mark and a hallmark. The maker’s mark has information about the jeweler who crafted the jewelry, and the hallmark indicates how pure the precious metal is.

In Finland, only companies can use the maker’s mark, and since Kilahus isn’t a company yet, I don’t have my own mark. I’m part of a collective company called Osuuskunta Artesaari, and their mark is “PIKI”, which I use in my own jewelry – for now, at least.

Gemstones

I get my stones from the gemstone cutters in Europe. I use natural stones as well as synthetic ones; there’s no difference in chemical properties between natural and synthetic stones, the only difference is that the synthetic stone is man-made.

Design

My jewelry has an experimental design style; sometimes jewelry can be quite simple in overall appearance but full of details, or vice versa.

I like to use small parts on my jewelry to bring it to life with a sound: chains, stones, or silver. When the small parts cling to one another, it makes a small ting, which I like to call “kilahus”.

I find inspiration for my jewelry designs in Finnish epic poetry, Kalevala, and Scandinavian Edda. That’s why most of my jewelry has some lore around it; I want to tell these old stories, tales, and myths onward in the shape of jewelry.

Visual design

I’ve been studying Implementer of Media Services at the Vocational College and comic arts and illustration at the Liminka School of Art. I’ve made illustrations for companies and organizations over the years. I can do graphic and logo design, illustration, photo editing, and so on.

I can also do material for printing – postcards, thank-you cards, posters – whatever customer needs!

I use mainly Affinity Design and Affinity Photo.

Kilahus & the jeweler

Even though Kilahus isn’t a business yet, I’ve been crafting jewelry under this name for a few years.

What is Kilahus, and how was the name born? The word “kilahus” means a small ting or a cling – the sound that happens when you tap glass with your nails, for example. While making jewelry, the soundscape is wide: tinking, rattling, snapping, the sound when a piece of jewelry or a gemstone drops on the floor, and the grunting of the jeweler when they search for the dropped piece.

In the Nordics, old tales were told by singing, and since jewelry can’t sing (well, not yet), it needs some other way to tell the tales onward. This is why I like to add something, what makes the sound in the jewelry.

I remember when I was young, I swore I wouldn’t ever do handicrafts for a living. Well, here I am! I come from a family where everyone does handicrafts, so it feels natural to me to follow the path as a jeweler.

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+358 41 759 5005

anu@kilahus.fi

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