At Nune, you compose the shades of your jewel from a beautiful selection of recycled colored luxury leathers 🎨. Choose your model and experiment! In just a few clicks, your jewel is personalized with your favorite colors. Your composition is then custom-made in our workshop. We take the greatest care in creating each model, adapting our manufacturing techniques to the leathers chosen, to offer you a unique, elegant and long-lasting piece of jewelry.

Recycled leather jewelry

Do you appreciate handcrafted jewelry? Have you ever thought of wearing recycled leather jewelry? Handcrafted in designer workshops, these accessories are part of an upcycling approach: the aim is to give leather a second life without transforming it. Many women are now opting for these eco-responsible leather necklaces, bracelets and earrings to help preserve the climate and the environment. Discover the many benefits of recycled jewelry, inspiring accessories for your gift ideas!

Why opt for recycled jewelry?

When you choose recycled handcrafted jewelry, you're helping to preserve the planet. Leather production involves manufacturing processes that can be polluting and environmentally destructive. The same applies to the manufacture of earrings and other metal and gemstone accessories. The extraction of minerals, their transport and transformation into luxury materials often generate large quantities of harmful and polluting waste.

Note that upcycled products are even more eco-friendly than recycled ones. The principle of upcycling, or overcycling, is to reuse products or materials as they are, as opposed to recycling, where a transformation is necessary to reuse the waste.

When you buy recycled or upcycled jewelry, you're promoting eco-responsible, sustainable consumption. You're also helping recycled jewelry designers to develop their ethical and environmentally-friendly businesses. What's more, these creations are in tune with the times. As ecology is one of the most important concerns of our time, these are very trendy accessories that will undoubtedly remain fashionable for many years to come!

These earrings and other beauty accessories are designed from a wide choice of materials and colors. The combinations and possibilities are virtually infinite, so you can indulge yourself with a host of different models, each more beautiful than the last. Recycled jewelry designers can give free rein to their talent and imagination to create original and unique designs.

What materials are generally used?

Designers can use a variety of materials from everyday objects to make their products. Plastic, recovered from waste such as bottles or bags, can be used to create large, colorful earrings or pretty beaded bracelets. Regressive earrings in the shape of a heart, fruit or childlike object are often made from recycled plastic. If you like long earrings with pearls, it's not uncommon to find earrings on hooks or sleepers with suspended plastic elements. Recycled plastic beads are also very much in evidence among eco-designed costume accessories.

Metals can also be used as recycled materials. More and more jewelers are jumping on the green jewelry bandwagon: many now offer jewelry made from recycled silver or gold.

Minerals are also among the materials used to create necklaces and other eco-friendly accessories. Do you like stone or glass jewelry? Would you like to opt for ethical, eco-responsible creations? Polished glass collected on beaches is a fine example of waste that can be recycled. Combined with small gemstones, it can create trendy accessories for a bohemian or casual look!

Upcycled leather

Leather also has its place among eco-responsible jewelry. Better than recycled, leather is often upcycled. The offcuts used to design leather earrings, bracelets and necklaces undergo no processing whatsoever. Whether it's marine leather or glittery bovine leather, recycled leather makes for lightweight, unique and highly wearable accessories.

Compared to other materials, leather has a significant advantage: it makes jewelry customizable! Not only can leather be engraved or cut into many different shapes, but it can also feature a wide choice of colors and patterns, depending on the treatments it has undergone during manufacture. So, when you opt for leather jewelry, you can personalize it to suit your tastes and style.

Here are a few examples of upcycled accessories you can find to give you some ideas for gifts or purchases:

• Leather and silver-plated and silver-plated with flower-shaped elements;
• Gold-plated mini creoles with leather motifs and recycled plastic beads;
• Hanging earrings with marine leather elements finely cut into geometric shapes;
• Small chips in pearlescent, velvety or iridescent leather;
• Leather necklace with fine stone pendant;
• Braided choker necklace with leather straps...

As you can see, the possibilities and possible combinations are endless!

Nune eco-friendly jewelry

Would you like to wear pretty, colorful leather earrings? Would you like to give a glittery leather necklace to a flirtatious woman? In our workshop, we make earrings, bracelets and necklaces from leather scraps sourced from leather factories, tanneries and recycling centers. Instead of being treated as waste, these luxury materials are reused to create customizable items. The Nune universe also includes other eco-responsible materials. We have several collections of jewelry in vegan leather, natural stones or all-metal to create colorful looks.

Made with passion and creativity, our products are available in our online store: discover them now!