MODERN HEIRLOOMS

“I don’t want people to take off my jewellery,” Tashjian Barklie says, twirling her fingers around a fine gold T-bar teardrop-pendant chain. The necklace itself is a design from Barklie’s first collection from her eponymous brand Tashji, which launched in December last year. Once an aspiring journalist, Barklie turned to the age-old trade of goldsmithing in 2017, studying full-time for two years before landing a rare opportunity in the workshop of a local family-run Auckland jewellery business, where she is an in-house jeweller by day, before retreating to her own studio, designing and crafting Tashji by