What is here
This section holds everything STRUGA makes at stud size — five objects from three different families. The three Classic Amulet studs belong to the AMULET family of the RITUAL world: each one holds a raw wild-growth stone, set in the shape the crystal grew in. The Thorn stud belongs to THORN, the brand's third form, a spike built on one sharp angle. The Signature Heart stud carries SIGNATURE HEART — STRUGA's own heart, half smooth and half angular.
At stud size the choice is not between silhouettes but between material and form: a stone takes up almost the whole visible surface, and where there is no stone the metal has to carry the piece alone.
The five studs
Three are sold and will not return
Three Classic Amulet studs sit in this section marked as sold. That is not a storefront glitch or a temporary stock gap: each was built around one specific wild-grown stone, and there is no second stone like it. The model can be repeated, the object cannot — so they stay in the catalogue as an archive, with the weight and the price they went for still visible.
If this is exactly the object you want — a raw stone in silver against the lobe — it is built to order around a different stone. Nearby forms working on the same principle are in AMULET.
Weight at this size
From 1.6 to 4.2 grams. Under 2 grams a stud disappears within minutes of putting it on; at 4 you feel it when you turn your head. For a piece worn continuously that difference decides more than the look does, which is why the weight is named on every position here instead of being buried in a spec sheet. How weight reads in other objects is worked through in the guide to silver ring weight.
No rhodium, and what that means
The silver here is not rhodium plated. This is Living Silver — 925 that lives and darkens on its own: recesses go dark first, raised areas stay bright from friction. Rhodium-plated silver holds one flat cold colour while the plating lasts and chips at the edges; unplated silver changes, and comes back to light with a cloth or silver cleaner. How the patina forms is explained in the piece on patina and living silver, and the article on silver and sensitive ears covers what in the alloy the skin reacts to.
Sold singly
Every position here is a single earring. Buy two of the same for a matched pair, or one to sit against something different in the other ear — most of what STRUGA makes for the ear assumes the second option. The three archived AMULET studs will never have a pair at all: each exists in one copy. How an asymmetric set comes together on one ear is shown in the guide to building an ear stack.
What it costs and why
A stud can be ordered from $95. For studs without a stone the price follows the weight of the silver: Signature Heart is $95 at 1.6 g, Thorn is $121 at 2.92 g. For studs with a raw stone the price runs above the metal, because it pays for the stone and for the fact that there is only one: the Classic Amulet studs went for $210 to $250 at 2.25 to 4.2 grams. Both live studs are made to order — nothing here sits in a warehouse waiting.
Care
Cloth or silver cleaner on the metal. Never put a piece with a raw stone into ultrasonic cleaning: an uncut crystal keeps the internal fractures that cutting would have removed, and ultrasound opens them. What slows darkening in ordinary wear is collected in how to prevent silver from tarnishing.
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