Measure the wrist bone, add a finger
A bracelet should clear the wrist bone with one finger of slack. Tennis lines wear closer; bangles need to pass the widest part of the hand.
Violet blue from one hill in Tanzania, evening in a stone. Nothing in the studio matches this exactly today, which is what commissions are for: we will build it around the stone. · 0 WORKS
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Before you choose
A bracelet should clear the wrist bone with one finger of slack. Tennis lines wear closer; bangles need to pass the widest part of the hand.
Prongs on a wrist catch sweaters and door frames. Our tennis lines are bezel or half-bezel set for exactly this reason.
A tennis bracelet is only as good as its box clasp and safety eight. Open ours before you buy; it should close like a car door.
Mixed stones in one metal always work together. Matched stones in mixed metals rarely do.
The short answer
Tanzanite bangle bracelets are made to commission at Made With Color: one artist, one bench, in New York. Ask and we will pull stones in daylight and send passports before you decide. A rigid circle of metal, the most sculptural thing a wrist can wear.
Violet blue from one hill in Tanzania, evening in a stone. We choose every stone loose, in daylight, and every work above carries a passport that says exactly what it is.
The fit test: it should pass over the folded hand with gentle pressure, then turn freely.
Tanzanite is 6.5 / 10 on the Mohs scale. For daily rings, choose a bezel or low prongs; for earrings and pendants, wear it freely.
Measure the wrist and add three quarters of an inch for a bracelet, one inch for a bangle.
Tennis lines want safety clasps. Bangles want a hinge if knuckles run large.
A bangle is rigid and sculptural; a bracelet drapes. Bangles suit stones set flush; bracelets suit stones that want to move.
Tanzanite is 6.5 / 10 on the Mohs scale. A bracelet meets desks and door frames all day. Bezels and inline settings survive; high prongs do not.
Tanzanite is the Dec birthstone and the traditional stone of the 24th anniversary. We set it for both, and for no occasion at all.
Untreated unless the passport says otherwise. When a stone of ours is heated or grown in a lab, the passport says so in that word, in the same type size as everything else, and the price reflects it.
Bangles ring against desks. Hinged bangles fit closer and knock less.
Ready-now works leave the studio within two business days, insured and signed for. Made to order pieces state their bench time on the page, most within three to four weeks.
Kept for life
◆Cleaning and polishing◆Prongs tightened and retipped◆White gold re-plated◆Resizing◆Resetting into something newEvery page below is real: filtered from the works in the studio today, or an open invitation to commission the piece that is missing.
Client notes, unedited
“They talked me out of a bigger stone and into a better one. Who does that?”M. CHEN, SEATTLE · COMMISSION No. 114