The amulets of this family are very different — from the quiet and classic, in a precise Japanese reading of minimalism, to the large and voluminous that make themselves heard.
The family is open — held together by one thing: a raw, wild-growth stone. It spreads across forms (earrings, studs, pendants, bracelets) and stones (tourmaline, aquamarine, quartz, heliodor and more). Two flagship models lead it: Classic / E-0530, a restrained cylinder, and Thorn / E-0528, the most expressive — its form like a torpedo cut in half, as if found in the earth after thousands of years, with a crystal grown inside, an homage to Daniel Arsham.
Why the stones stay raw
A faceted stone is a stone made uniform: cut to a grid, polished to a plan, interchangeable with the next one of its grade. A raw crystal is the opposite — it kept the shape its growth gave it, and no two grew the same way.
Working with raw stone costs more time and rejects more material. Each setting is made for one crystal, because the crystal will not fit another. That constraint is the point.
What is on this page right now
The family is wider than the page: its forms and stones vary, and the selection changes. Right now it holds forty-two pieces — thirty-six earrings and six necklaces.
Tourmaline carries the selection — twenty-five of the forty-two — and it arrives in more than one colour: green, pink, grey, transparent, and achroite, the colourless variety whose name comes from the Greek for "without colour".
| Stone |
Pieces |
Weight |
Price |
| Tourmaline |
25 earrings |
2.3–7 g |
$130 – $220 |
| Aquamarine |
8 earrings |
3.5–6.5 g |
$160 – $220 |
| Quartz |
4 necklaces |
9–40 g |
$850 – $1,050 |
| Natural crystal |
3 studs |
2.25–4.2 g |
$210 |
| No stone |
2 necklaces |
9–12 g |
$250 |
Two Thorn Amulet necklaces come empty: the setting is open and waiting for its crystal, if the wearer chooses to add one. In the three studs the stone is named as a natural crystal without a species — that is how it was picked, one at a time.
Twenty-nine pieces are uncoated 925 silver. That is Living Silver: it darkens on its own, and silver cleaner brings it back to the light whenever you want. The remaining thirteen were darkened in advance, at the bench — that is how they are meant to look.
Two models lead the family
Thorn / E-0528 — twenty-four pieces: twenty-two earrings and two necklaces, $130 to $250. The form holds the stone with angles, and the weight stays between 2.3 and 12 grams.
Classic / E-0530 — eighteen pieces: fourteen earrings and four necklaces, $160 to $1,050. Here the silver gets out of the stone's way, and in the quartz necklaces the model reaches forty grams. The model archive shows it in full.
Every piece is numbered
Look at the titles: Classic Amulet Earring #28, Thorn Amulet Earring #23, Double Thorn Earring #4. The number is not decoration. It is the running count of that model — the twenty-eighth Classic Amulet made, not the twenty-eighth copy.
When a number sells, it does not come back. The stone that was in it does not exist twice.
Weight and scale
The range runs from 2.25 grams to 40 grams — a factor of nearly eighteen between the smallest stud and the heaviest necklace.
Sizes are marked S, M and L within each model, but the stone decides the final mass: two pieces of the same size and model can differ, because the crystals differ. Where the weight matters to you, it is on the product page.
What we do not claim
STRUGA promises no effect from a stone. Nothing here is charged, aligned or attuned to anything, and we will not tell you otherwise to close a sale.
What people believed about these minerals is a matter of cultural history, and an interesting one — but it belongs in an article, not on a price tag. What you are buying is a crystal that grew for a long time without anyone's involvement, set in silver by someone who had to work around its shape.
Meaning is something you bring. We supply the object.
Care with a raw stone
Two rules, and they come from the stone rather than the metal.
Do not use ultrasonic cleaning. Raw crystals carry internal fractures and inclusions that a cut stone would have had removed; ultrasound finds them.
Clean the silver with a cloth or silver cleaner, keeping the liquid off the stone where you can. Take the piece off before the pool — chlorine darkens silver in a way you did not choose.
More questions
Are the stones natural?
Yes, and uncut. They are set in the shape they grew in, not cut to a standard.
Will my piece look exactly like the photograph?
The silver will. The stone will not — each is photographed individually because each is different. What you see in the listing is the stone you receive.
What does the number in the title mean?
It is the running count of that model. Number 28 is the twenty-eighth Classic Amulet made, and it exists once.
Can I choose the stone?
You are choosing it by choosing the listing — each number is one specific crystal. If the one you wanted is gone, there is a request for something similar: the form can be repeated, the stone cannot.
How do I clean a raw stone piece?
Cloth or silver cleaner on the metal, no ultrasonic cleaning. Raw crystals keep the internal flaws that cutting would have removed.
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