Individually hand carved beads with hand braided cord and adjustable fastening.

Number of beads: 5

Once highly valued for their precious materials and the painstaking effort required in their production, beads have been utilised as a form of currency in trade throughout history and unsurprisingly so.

Carving a bead from rough rock is a work of love. A convex plane of carving is more difficult to accomplish freehand than a concave or linear form, especially when holding small objects. We fashion each bead in turn, slicing and then cubing the parent stone, cutting each corner from the rock, going over and over each piece multiple times, slicing and grinding until we are happy with the balance and curvature of the form.

Our beads are not perfect spheres, perfection can be gained by using modern bead making machinery and rounding tools. Perfection is highly overrated. We like that each one can both sit alongside others comfortably and yet each has a character of its own which speaks of the laborious work it has emerged from.