Journal
Notes on stone, routine and the long view.
Written slowly, for people who read the whole thing.
4 min read
Sizing a bracelet for someone else
You cannot ask. You may never have looked at their wrist. Here is how the house gets it right anyway, and what to do if it is not.
6 min read
Black, and the seven blacks inside it
Eleven of the house's thirteen pieces are dark. None of them are the same dark. A field guide to the blacks we work in, and how to tell them apart on the wrist.
6 min read
A short history of counting beads under the table
Before there were bracelets there were strands, and before the strands were worn they were counted. A private practice that crossed every border and never once needed to be explained.
5 min read
The three lights we judge a stone by
Morning, dusk and a desk lamp. Why a stone that only performs in one of them does not make it into the tray.
6 min read
Tiger eye: the stone that waits
The only warm stone in the house, and the one with the longest memory. Where it comes from, why the band moves, and what the old markets believed about it.
5 min read
How to wear one piece for ten years
Most of our wearers own one piece and can tell you the day they started. This is what the ones who reach a decade have in common.
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