Collection: Prairie Rose

Prairie Rose. The flower that was already here.

Royal Albert produced this pattern from 1980 to 1991, eleven years of open pink wild roses on luminous white bone china, the Montrose shape, gold at the rim. The rose on this china is not a garden rose, not a florist's rose. It's flat and wide-petalled and warm, the kind that grows in Alberta ditches and along fence lines every June and makes you stop the truck and look.

Alberta chose the wild rose as its provincial flower in 1930, a province-wide vote run through schoolchildren and the Women's Institutes. It has been the emblem of this province ever since. Royal Albert rendered it faithfully on bone china in England, made it into cups and saucers and serving pieces, and sent it across the ocean to the place it had always belonged.

We find these pieces now, in thrift shops and estate sales, still pink and warm and completely themselves. Each pendant begins with a carefully chosen fragment, set into a hypoallergenic aluminum frame, finished in gold or silver, with a hand-formed wire bale at the top. No two are the same. They can't be.

We make them in rural Alberta. The same flower is growing outside right now, probably within a few kilometres of whoever is reading this.

Browse the Prairie Rose collection and find the one that's been waiting.