HOW MISSOMA IS MADE
Every piece we create takes an entire year at the minimum, from design to development to your door.
Follow the journey of your Missoma jewelry.
01. The Design Process
We find inspiration everywhere from interiors and sculpture, to lighting and ceramics – plus, of course, from our community.
Our Creative Director and Head of Design (and collaborator if applicable) will give a concept, look and feel that will inspire the direction of our collection. The design team will then take those ideas away and create moodboards. We then get busy sketching and bring all our ideas together as a team to decide on the final designs that we will take to the next stage and sample.
02. Creating CADs
After the initial designs have been agreed upon, we make them into life-size technical specifications, with every size, dimension and detail that is needed for them to be made. These then get converted into 3D CADs so we can visualise them in three dimensional form.
There are multiple rounds of comments and amends that are made to the CADs until we are 100% happy with them. This is when we start collaborating with our suppliers.
03. Making A Mould
Once the 3D CAD has been printed, a rubber mould is then made so that we can use this as the master for all future pieces.
05. Casting & Filing Our Pieces
Gold and silver come in here. Dependent on the piece, the metal is poured into moulds in our casting machine.
The jewelry pieces are then cut from the tree and filed down, with any surplus metal being refined and reused by us. Each piece is then filed and polished until they are ready to go on to the plating stage.
06. Assembling & Setting
We’re all about attention to detail, and this step is where we ‘dress’ our jewelry – whether that’s assembling the pieces, soldering links, setting our stones by hand, or attaching clasps.
If our collections have enamel pieces in them, our factories will match the specifically selected pantone colours and hand-paint them in-house.
Hallmarked For Quality
Our sterling silver pieces (that weigh over 7.78g) are stamped with '925' to certify their authenticity. 925 sterling silver is an alloy made of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% copper.
We also hallmark all of our solid gold pieces with '585' for 14k solid gold to certify its purity.
100% Recyclable Packaging and Carbon-Neutral Delivery
Your Missoma order is then responsibly shipped to wherever you are in the world in plastic-free and fully recyclable packaging, with carbon-neutral delivery and returns. Our iconic jewelry is then ready to be worn on repeat. For an added guarantee, everything comes with a two-year warranty.
