about common rite supply | peggy portals

Sara Bautista - AKA Peggy Portals - is a San Francisco native and currently Baltimore, MD based.

I founded Common Rite Supply in 2020 during the Pandemic while living in Los Angeles. I manufacture my distinctive fine jewelry collection in NYC's Diamond District with a trusted team of expert jewelers.

I have a BA in American Studies from Scripps College and am a GIA Graduate Diamonds alum (2022). Since joining the jewelry industry after graduation in 2018, I have worked professionally in the SF, LA + NYC jewelry districts. 

My conceptual jewelry practice challenges traditional notions of value, permanence, and adornment while keeping it somewhat silly.

In 2022, I debuted a collection at COUTURE in Las Vegas as a part of the Radiance, a group of all women of color designers, featuring De Beers Code of Origin diamonds.

 During my 2024 residency at the Baltimore Jewelry Center, I developed a body of work interrogating the aesthetics and social contracts of engagement rings. Drawing from my experience in the fine jewelry industry, where I designs custom rings for couples, I created a series of 16 rings that reflect a deeply personal and speculative approach to commitment.

I see jewelry as an age old celebration of human creativity - a common rite.

Portrait by Circe Hamilton