Materials
A bracelet is only as good as what it is made of. Here is an honest look at every component you design with — counted from the same catalogue the studio serves, not written from memory.
The heart of every design. 32 of our 46 stones are cut from natural stone, so variation in colour, banding and inclusions is normal — that variation is the signature of real stone, not a defect. Two beads of the same stone will not match exactly, and a strand you design twice will never come back identical.
Black Sandalwood and Green Sandalwood (Verawood) are natural too, but they are aromatic wood rather than stone — lighter on the wrist, and they darken slowly with wear instead of holding one fixed colour.
Every stone is stocked in 6mm, 8mm, 10mm, so you can change the scale of a design without giving up the stone you wanted.
Not everything in a crystal catalogue is raw mined stone, and the honest version of this page names which is which. Here is the full breakdown:
Untreated natural material. Colour, banding and inclusions vary bead to bead.
Natural stone with added colour. The tone is applied, not grown.
Dyed Color Green Agate · Green Tiger Eyes Stone
Natural stone that has been stabilised or treated to hold its colour.
Blue Turquoise · Red Tiger Eyes Stone
Lab-grown or manufactured. Consistent by design, not mined.
Blue Sandstone · Dark Pink Cat Eyes Stone · Gold Sandstone · purple Cat Eyes Stone · Synthetic Green Malachite · White Cat Eyes Stone
Shell-based or simulated rather than the stone it resembles.
Pearl Color High Imitation Shell · White Shell
Each stone's own entry in the Crystal Encyclopedia carries the same label, so you can check before you add a bead rather than after it arrives.
Alongside the stones you can design with 13 spacers and 12 charms — rings, zirconia accents, engraved silver-tone leaves, discs and crosses. Spacers do the quiet work in a layout: they set rhythm and spacing, and they are how a repeating pattern reads as deliberate instead of busy.
These components are manufactured rather than mined, and they are counted separately above for exactly that reason.
Every strand is strung on stretch elastic and worn over the hand — there is no clasp to fail and nothing to fasten one-handed. That is also why fit is governed by the strand's inner circumference rather than a clasp position, and why the studio refuses to check out a strand outside 13–21 cm.
Elastic relaxes slowly with wear. The Jewelry Care page covers how to roll it on and off so it keeps its recovery.
Beads are inspected before they enter the studio catalogue — checked for finish, drill quality and consistent sizing — so the stone you place in a layout is the stone that reaches your wrist.
We do not publish a letter grade for stones. Supplier A-scales are not comparable across stone types, and ours illustrates the problem neatly: the single highest mark in our data belongs to an imitation shell pearl, while three genuine natural quartzes carry the lowest. A grade letter would tell you the opposite of the truth, so we describe the process instead.
The layout, sizes and order of beads will match exactly. The individual stones will not be pixel-identical, because natural stone varies bead to bead — the preview shows a representative colour, not a photograph of your specific beads.
Check its entry in the Crystal Encyclopedia, or the breakdown above — every non-natural stone in the catalogue is named on this page.
No. Every piece is elastic and rolls over the hand, which is why the Size Guide works in wrist circumference.
No — spacers and charms are plated or alloy findings chosen for finish and durability, not precious metal. We would rather say so here than let the colour imply otherwise.
Once your piece arrives, a little care keeps it looking new — see Jewelry Care.
Every stone's treatment, size and price is visible before you add it.
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