the magic within

Before Dryad was jewellery, it was a glimpse of another way of living.

In 2011, Parisa had just finished studying and knew the conventional path ahead wasn’t hers. On her first solo journey through India, she found herself among people who seemed to have rewritten the rules entirely — living, creating and moving through the world in ways she had never imagined growing up in the city.

Among them were Tino and his mother, who taught her macramé.

She came home seeing the city differently. It felt grey where the journey had been full of life, and she wanted to bring a little of that world back with her.

And so, Dryad began to take form.

Thread, fallen feathers, seed pods, bits of brass and things gathered from nature slowly became adornments. One piece inspired the next, new materials found their way in, and a language of its own began to emerge.

Its name comes from the Dryads of Greek mythology — tree nymphs inseparable from the trees and forests they inhabit. With nature, and trees in particular, being one of Parisa’s deepest and longest influences, there could hardly have been another name.

The pieces have changed enormously since those first knots, but one thing hasn’t.

A Dryad piece only truly comes alive when it is worn.

It is the person who gives the piece its life, and in return, the piece seems to reveal something in them — something wilder, more otherworldly, perhaps a side of themselves they hadn’t quite seen before.

Somewhere between the two, the magic happens.