Handmade Gemstone Bracelets

Why it took us ten years to make a bracelet

Beads are the hardest thing in our trade to source well. Rough stone leaves the mine, gets cut and drilled in a factory far away, and comes back as a strand with its history left behind. Dye, heat and resin are common, and they are rarely disclosed.

So for ten years we did not sell beaded jewelry. What changed is the suppliers. It took a long time to find ones who tell us where a stone was mined and what has been done to it, and who say so when they do not know.

What we hold every bracelet to

• Every stone is named. With its origin and any treatment.
• Nothing dyed, synthetic or reconstituted. No dye, no lab-grown stone, no powder pressed back into a bead. If a stone was heated or irradiated, we say so.
• Some beads we leave out on purpose. If we cannot trace a stone's origin, or cannot rule out a treatment that crosses our lines, we do not string it.
• We tell you where our knowledge stops. Unlike most of our store, these stones do not reach us straight from a mine or a cooperative. The bead trade does not work that way.

Made by hand, guaranteed for a year

Every bracelet is strung and knotted by hand in our Maryland studio, then stretched open and checked before it is packed. If the cord breaks or the knot lets go in the first year, we restring it at our cost.

The standard size fits a 6 inch wrist. We string any other size on request at no extra charge.