Our story

It started with my grandmother’s wrist

My grandmother Edith wore a plain copper bangle every day. She’d first put it on for the aching joints in her hands, and after that she wore it while baking on Sunday mornings and pruning her roses in Harrogate, and she never once took it off. “It’s just part of me now, love,” she’d say.

When she passed away, the bangle came to me. It was smooth and warm, worn to a soft glow after forty years.

Then I tried to buy another one

My mum had started to struggle with stiff, sore joints herself, and she wanted a bangle just like Nan’s. But every “copper” bracelet I found was cheap metal with a thin coating. Within a month, the copper on the one I bought her had started flaking off, with grey metal showing underneath. It was nothing like Nan’s.

So I made one myself

I bought solid copper, borrowed my dad’s tools and started shaping bracelets at the kitchen table. They were a bit wonky, but they were real copper, all the way through. Mum wore hers every day, just as Nan had. Then her sister wanted one. Then her friends from church and her walking group. All of them wanted what their mum or nan had always worn.

Finding the right hands

Soon there were more orders than one kitchen table could manage. I wanted my bracelets made by people who truly understood copper, so I went looking for them in India. There, copper has been part of daily life for thousands of years, and in the Ayurvedic tradition it has long been worn against the skin and used for drinking water. I met a small family of coppersmiths whose craft has been handed down through generations, just like Nan’s bangle was handed down to me. The first cuff they sent me felt exactly like hers: solid, smooth and warm.

From one kitchen table to thousands of wrists

Today every Copper&Ease piece is still made by hand in India, but the promise hasn’t changed since that first wonky bracelet: solid 99.9% pure copper, never plated, never coated. Each cuff is designed as jewellery, not a medical aid, and is easy to slip on, even on a stiff morning.