Handwoven glass-bead jewellery
Light enough to forget you are wearing it.
Necklaces, earrings, bangles, hair pieces, bridal sets - all woven by hand, made to order.
- Made in
- Saurashtra, Gujarat, India
- Material
- Jayco glass seed beads
- Colour
- Yours to choose
The name
कलाकृति
means a work of art.
Which is a large phrase for something that sits at your throat. In practice it means three things: the weave is a skill and not a hobby, the women who hold it are paid as skilled workers, and nothing is woven until someone asks for it.
Why I make this →The hands
This craft belongs to the women who kept it.
The weave I work in has been carried in Saurashtra for generations, mostly by women, mostly at home, mostly unpaid for what it's actually worth. I didn't invent any of it. What I do is design the pieces, source better glass, and make sure the work is paid for properly and credited plainly.
Every net that leaves here was strung by a person, in her own time, with her own hands. That is the whole product. The rest is just colour and shape.
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The signature
The Lace Choker
A slender hand-woven lace of glass seed beads finished with a fine picot edge, sitting high at the neck. Made to order in any colour you like.
The shades here are the ones I keep photographed, in twolengths. The colour itself is yours to choose - send me a photo of anything you have in mind and most of the time I can match the glass.
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The weave
The stitch, the edge, the glass.
Everything here is built from a single technique. What changes between pieces is how deep the net runs and how the edge is finished - so these three are worth knowing by name.
- Netting stitch
- Beads are strung into diamonds rather than rows, so the piece has no backing and no chain - it holds its own shape and follows the neck the way cloth does.
- Picot edge
- The tiny points along the lower edge. Each one is a separate turn of the thread, added bead by bead after the net itself is finished.
- Jayco glass seed beads
- Machine-cut glass, sorted by hand before anything is strung. Consistent size is what lets a net sit flat; one bead out of gauge shows across the whole row.
The colour
Any colour you like.
- Pearlमोती
- Roseगुलाबी
- Amethystजामुनी
- Turquoiseफ़िरोज़ा
- Sapphireनीलम
- Onyxकाजल
- Blushपाटल
- Emeraldपन्ना
- Marigoldगेंदा
- Rubyमाणिक
- Goldसुनहरा
Colour swatches, not photographs. Any of these can be woven into any piece; the finished work is in the collections.
Browse
Where the weave goes.
One technique, cut into the pieces people ask me for. Everything is woven to order in the shade and the length you choose.
The collections
Grouped by the weave and the idea behind it - start here if you want the story.
- Necklaces & CollarsWoven nets that sit at the throat and the collarbone - from a close choker to a longer collar.
- EarringsLight enough to wear all day - woven drops and hoops in fine glass beads.
- Bracelets & BanglesWoven bands for the wrist - flexible, stackable, and made to your size.
- Hair & Maang TikkaPieces for the parting and the hairline, woven in glass beads.
- Bridal SetsMatched pieces woven together in one shade, for the day and for after it.
Begin
Tell me the shade, the length, and when you need it.
Orders happen over WhatsApp, because every piece is a conversation before it's a product. I'll tell you honestly what's possible and how long it will take.
