The Beaded Blog

Beads, Jewelry Making, & More by Tracosé Bespoke Jewelry 

Living Stones

The stones are alive.  Believe it.  Feel it.  They radiate their own energies, and they can also resonate with yours.  In harmony, this resonance enhances your power.  In conflict, it can sap your energy.  That's why the methods and practices of cleansing, or 'clearing' gemstones is so important. How many times have you seen something of exquisite beauty, and it's visual appeal drew you toward it, only to find that - once close enough to more fully appreciate it -  it somehow just didn't feel right, or worse, felt very wrong?  Yes, indeed.  That's where the proper care of stones comes in. From gem selection through jewelcraft, properly handled and cared-for gemstones are the essence of powerful pieces.

Cleanstones

Anyone can go to a bead store or seek things out in nature.  That's the beauty of it.  But there's also an art to the selection, cleansing and charging of gemstones.  It takes spiritual skill and strength to do it right.  Often, an artist will find it completely effortless to select, arrange, and string collections of stones and beads, coming up with a complete, powerfully resonant design as if no time at all had passed, even more energized too!  Effortless beauty and clear, clean energy...

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Bespoke?

We're often asked what "Bespoke" means.  In a word: Rare.  In haute couture, 'bespoke' is the term used to describe beautiful, hand-crafted fashion designs that are one-of-a-kind.  These are things you won't find in mass quantities on store racks all over the world.

Thinman loves working with folks passionate about their craft...

What this term means in the context of Tracosé: artfully crafted personal jewelry designs of singular beauty.  You won't find two identical pieces on every Macy's jewelry counter.  Not because they won't have us, it's because no two pieces are the same, and we're not trying to make fistfuls of paste jewelry to place in as many stores as possible...

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A Cow & Some Water

There are so many examples in life that illustrate the notion of teaching someone to fish rather than just giving them a meal.  Take business, for example.  Some of the most precious things we learn as entrepreneurs aren't things we were told to do, but things we were shown how to do.  It's absolutely priceless when someone takes the time to treat something extremely important to you with the same amount of respect, and helps you acquire a skill, shares some invaluable piece of knowledge, or imparts a wisdom that you simply can't measure.  When we come across things like this, we love to share.  That's a big part of what this blog and our company are about.  What's that got to do with a cow?  Or water?  Bear with us, we're getting there...

Same thing with beading and jewelry making.  The first time someone shows you the difference in flexibility of wire, it makes an impression.  You may have read about the tensile strength of wire stranding and maybe even got your mind around how, the lower the number, the more flexible the wire (and vice versa), but seeing it in action is something else altogether.  Things like that - those tangibles that illustrate things that are important to what we do, and those that are central to who we are, these are things we share.  People are a communal bunch.  We love to pass things on, to share.  Little snippets, recipies, email jokes, discounts and bargains...  Big ideas, life-changing things, too, the resources we acquire that help us truly succeed.  Some people call this 'giving back'.  But that's not how we see it.  Giving back is like feeding someone that proverbial fish. Paying it forward is like providing a set of resources to encourage and enable sustainable success.  And that's what we're about here at Tracose: Paying it forward...

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