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Meet Kelly

I'm Kelly Bit, the founder of SUBLIMA, and I hand make your jewelry. I'd love to share a bit about SUBLIMA and how it came to be. Art imitating life has always enraptured me. As a child, if I wasn’t drawing then I was crafting, and I made jewelry using basic beading techniques, though it wouldn’t become my favorite medium for some time.

I love writing, too, which is why I spent eight years of my career as a journalist after graduating from Yale, where I majored in English. I was a reporter at Bloomberg News for eight years, and while financial news journalism was exciting and challenging, I missed the creative arts as a major part of my life. I started spending my free time making, and the intentional lifestyle switch brought me a lot of fulfillment, so much that I wanted to transform my pastimes into something more.

I pursued more technical skills and learned metal smithing and wax carving, which is how I hand make the pieces in this collection. Jewelry helped me discover my creative conviction; I cherish having an idea that I can't wait to create, and how rewarding it is to transform concepts into beautiful, tangible forms that communicate the intangible: One’s tastes and intentions for self-expression.

SUBLIMA references subliminal messages that produce hidden feelings; I love that interesting, artful objects can move us in mysterious ways. The chance that my jewelry sparks that in anyone makes me supremely happy.

About SUBLIMA

SUBLIMA is a brand of high-art, sculptural and sustainable jewelry that I hand make in New York. I design and create the jewelry by carving wax prototypes, which are molded for casting into recycled brass and sterling silver. See the below video showing how I made the Dragon Signet Ring, and check out our Instagram for many more videos of me carving various prototypes.


The jewelry draws inspiration from well-loved objects and visceral memories, and many of the pieces are abstract takes on culinary delicacies and Asian iconography.

The casted pieces are 100% of the metals used (not plated). Then they’re polished and assembled by hand. Each piece comes with a complimentary polishing cloth, which can be used to keep the jewelry shiny. Read more about our materials and jewelry care tips.

Also at the heart of SUBLIMA is giving back; since 2020, SUBLIMA has donated more than $80,000 to nonprofits supporting NYC's Chinatowns, after-school programming, affordable housing and food security.

Get in Touch

Have a question or wanna say hi? Contact me via Instagram direct message at @sublimajewelry or email at hey@sublimajewelry.com — I'd love to hear from you.