Written by: Anna We love layering here at Zealandia Designs—from clothing to desserts… and, of course, jewelry! Layering your jewelry is a great way to freshen your look and add a little extra interest to a classic piece. Our fossilized ivory beads are made from ancient walrus and mammoth ivory that is between 500 to over 15,000 years old...

  Written by: Anna We’ve been designing new and captivating pieces for our bees jewelry line for well over a decade. Somehow the intrepid bee never tires of showing up as a muse! We can count on her to appear time and time again in customer favorites and throughout our Bees Collection. Sometimes our bee is surrounded by jewels, or...

  Written by: Jenny I grew up in New Zealand along the coastlines of some of the wildest, most stunning landscape on earth. When I first started designing my fossilized ivory jewelry collection in 1987, I drew heavily on the impressions of nature from my childhood. These imprints helped inspire the designs and shape the jewelry line into what it is...

Written by: Anna Today we are going to talk about how to clean ivory, specifically how to clean ancient fossilized ivory, which is the only type of ivory we use in our Zealandia jewelry. We are passionately against new ivory of any kind as it destroys our earth’s precious living creatures. The fossilized mammoth and walrus ivory in Zealandia jewelry...

  Written by: Anna When Jenny landed in Bali for her bi-annual trip to work with the artisans who produce Zealandia’s fossilized ivory jewelry, she found a very different scene in familiar Ubud. The 33 year old son of Jenny’s landlord, one of Ubud’s princes, had died unexpectedly two months prior. Cokorda Putra Widura lay in the palace, his cremation scheduled...

  Written by: Jenny Katmai bear camp is one of the highlights of my adventurous year. Those summer days spent watching, photographing, breathing, and living very near the brown bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve re-inspire my silver bear jewelry collection as well as my awe of the natural world. We fly in over spectacular Naknek Lake, landing on water...

  Written by: Jenny I am lucky enough to experience Alaskan adventures while sourcing fossilized walrus ivory for our walrus ivory jewelry, but this trip was purely for pleasure. And what pleasure Alaska is in the warm months of the midnight sun! Taken just after midnight on the Summer Solstice, Nome, Alaska. There is so much to do and see...