01Gemstone Guides
How to Choose a Natural Gemstone: A Collector's Guide
Colour, clarity, cut and origin matter, but not in the order most people assume. A plain guide to judging a stone with your own eyes.
12 June 2025 · 6 min read
Hand-laid gemstones on suede
Featured pieces
- Certified Natural Gemstones
- Certificate of Authenticity
- 7 Day Easy Returns
- Insured Worldwide Delivery
Personalised
Their initial, in natural gemstones
A single letter, drawn stone by stone onto cream suede and framed in solid wood. Choose the letter you want from the ones we have ready and it is made for you, finished exactly like the rest of the house.
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One letter, chosen by you
Pick the initial from the pieces we have ready.
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Set entirely by hand
Every stone laid by one artisan, never printed.
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A name, a date, two letters?
Those are drawn first, so they are made as a commission.
In Motion
Light, caught and held.
The Craft
Every stone is laid by hand, one after another
Every stone is chosen for colour and cut, then laid onto cream suede and framed in solid wood. Nothing is moulded, nothing is printed. A piece takes a week.
- Set by hand
- Every single stone
- Made once
- No two are identical
- Sealed
- Numbered and certified
Bespoke
Composedaround a name.
Family initials. Wedding monograms. A Sanskrit mantra. A house cipher. We compose gemstones freely upon suede into a private work of art, never outlined in metal, always arranged by hand.
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Tell us the subject
An emblem, a deity, a script, a monogram.
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We draw it to scale
A stone-by-stone drawing for your approval.
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Stones are selected
You see the palette before a single one is laid.
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Made and delivered
Framed, engraved, boxed and insured.
The Journal
Notes on stone, symbol and craft
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