Design your own custom crystal bracelet

Most beaded bracelets are sold in small, medium and large, and most people fall between two of them. Here the strand is built around a number you give it: your wrist circumference in centimetres. The studio converts that into a recommended finished length, and then keeps the running length in front of you while you work, so a strand that has drifted too long or too short shows itself before you order it.

Bead diameter changes the fit as much as the count does. A run of 14 mm stones eats length quickly and sits high on the wrist; 6 mm stones read as a fine line and take many more to close the circle. Both are available, and you can mix them on one strand — a single large focal stone between smaller ones is one of the easiest ways to make a design look considered rather than assembled.

The bead library is natural stone: quartz in its several colours, jade, tiger's eye, turquoise, obsidian, amethyst, aventurine, moonstone, labradorite, carnelian and more, alongside freshwater pearl, metal spacers and charms. Each has a price of its own, and each is priced per size, so a design's cost follows what is actually on it rather than a flat band.

Stones are grouped in the picker by colour and by element, which is usually how people shop for them — either "something green" or "something grounding". Both routes end in the same place.

A finished design can be shared as a link before you buy it. The link opens a read-only view of the exact strand — the same stones in the same order at the same sizes — which is the practical way to ask someone else what they think, or to hand a gift design to whoever is paying for it.

If you would rather not start from an empty strand, the five-element quiz asks a short series of questions and opens the studio with a design already laid out. You can change every part of it afterwards.