The kithul is a fishtail palm. Sri Lankans climb it for sap, boil the sap down into treacle, and weave its leaf and fibre into rope, mats, and the roofs of open buildings.
Geoffrey Bawa built his life's work out of that kind of material. An architecture around Bentota and Lunuganga that never quite decided where the garden stopped. His rooms open until they stop being rooms. A hundred years after he was born, a pavilion went up on that estate made of kithul strands woven over steel mesh, curved in one direction only, so the whole surface could be unrolled flat again.
The ring is cast in one piece, but the form is a weave. It holds by tension between parts, not by the mass of any one.
Inspired by Kengo Kuma and Associates' Kithul-Ami pavilion, Bentota, Sri Lanka. Solid sterling silver 925 with rhodium plating.