Aotearoa NZ
Sustainability
Handmade
Generosity
StoneArrow is a boutique artisan business that creates products inspired by the beauty of nature here in Aotearoa New Zealand. We specialise in creating high quality, sustainable, innovative, and hand-crafted jewellery made from up-cycled materials.
The foundations of our success are built on creativity, integrity, and a commitment to excellence. We also take pride in our friendly kiwi attitude; in our daily business we aim to practice respect, transparency, and generosity.
StoneArrow was dreamed up by Nick Feint some 25 years ago. His first gig selling jewellery was a hi-tech operation using portable display boards in Manners Mall, Wellington.
From Wellington, Nick sold his jewellery where ever he travelled until he finally made a home for StoneArrow in Takaka, Golden Bay in 2000.
Nick would never have been able to turn StoneArrow into the thriving business that it is without his dedicated and hard-working small team who are involved in all aspects of the business now - from day-to-day processing orders, answering queries, manufacturing, designing new products, running social media, problem solving and general all-round legends!
Nick is a kiwi creative who taught himself the basics of jewellery-making after finishing a business degree and realising he didn't want to work for "the man".
The StoneArrow team picked up and ran with it from these beginnings, allowing Nick to not only find joy and meaning steering the StoneArrow ship, but also spend time as a singer/songwriter, an enthusiastic soccer player, and devoted father to two fully grown boys and two younger children. He is also one of the original founders of Tracks, a rites of passage organisation that runs programmes for young men.
Nick lives in Onekaka in Golden Bay with his partner Rose, their son Xavier, daughter Grace and Chaos (the cat).
Our workshop and gallery is situated in a lovely old building that has seen many different uses, including a boarding house in the 1800's, a bakery and several cafes.
We created our workshop in what used to be the old cafe kitchen! This has actually turned out to be very useful with our noisy tumblers operating in the old chiller and our soldering bench under the extractor fan where the deep fryers used to be.
Come in for a visit and meet some of the team behind the designs, we love showing off our workshop and the inventive ways we have developed to make the jewellery.
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