Amulet
STRUGA Family · IX
STRUGA earrings and necklaces with raw wild-growth stones.
AMULET — STRUGA earrings and necklaces with raw wild-growth stones.
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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.
AMULET — a family in the RITUAL world: STRUGA earrings and necklaces built around raw wild-growth stones. Sterling silver 925, Living Silver (925 without rhodium — the metal darkens on its own; a property, not applied oxidation). An open family united by a raw, wild-growth stone — across earrings, studs, pendants and bracelets, and stones from tourmaline to quartz and heliodor. Two flagship models: Classic / E-0530, a restrained cylinder, and Thorn / E-0528, a halved-torpedo form with a crystal grown inside — an homage to Daniel Arsham. Stones enter as material and geology only. Patina is a property, a map of wear, not a flaw.
World where this form lives
Frequently asked questions
What is the AMULET family?
AMULET is a family within STRUGA's RITUAL world: earrings and pendants built around raw, wild-grown stones. The range runs from quiet, classic pieces in a precise Japanese reading of minimalism to large, sculptural forms. It is an open family — what unites it is the uncut, wild-grown stone, carried across different forms (earrings, studs, pendants, bracelets) and different stones (tourmaline, aquamarine, quartz, heliodor and others). Two flagship models anchor it: Classic / E-0530 and Thorn / E-0528.
Is RITUAL the same as the AMULET family?
No. RITUAL is a world — the dark side of STRUGA — and AMULET is one family inside it. A world holds several families; AMULET stands alongside CARBON and MOSAIC under RITUAL. So RITUAL is the larger frame, and AMULET is a specific family within it.
Is the Thorn Amulet the same as the THORN family?
No. Thorn / E-0528 is a model type within AMULET, in the RITUAL world. The THORN family is a separate family that belongs to the CODEX world. Same word, different entities: one is an amulet model, the other is a CODEX family. They should not be confused.
Is Living Silver the same as oxidation?
No. Living Silver is a property: 925 sterling silver without rhodium plating, which darkens on its own over time. Oxidation is a technique: the piece is deliberately darkened in the workshop. AMULET pieces are 925 sterling silver that lives and changes with wear, so the patina that forms is a map of use, not a defect.
What are the stones in AMULET for?
They are raw, wild-grown stones, taken as material and geology. In the Thorn model, the crystal is grown inside the form — an homage to Daniel Arsham. STRUGA approaches stones only through their material, geology or cultural context, and makes no promises about any effects or properties of the stones themselves.
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.
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.
What is in this collection
Forty-two pieces: thirty-six earrings and six necklaces.
Tourmaline carries the collection — 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".
Beside it: aquamarine in nine pieces, quartz in seven, beryl in three, emerald in two, heliodor in one. Aquamarine, emerald and heliodor are all beryl — the same mineral, separated by which trace element coloured it.
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
We do not sell protection, energy, luck or healing. No stone 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.
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.
Read further
- Amulets: meaning and symbolism — what people believed, and where belief ends.
- The Thorn Amulet, E-0528 — how the form came about.
- Tourmaline instead of a diamond — the stone as a main stone.
- How silver patinates — what the darkening actually is.
- Sterling silver 925 — the alloy and why it is alloyed.
- Cleaning silver without damage — what to use and what to avoid.
