Our workshop

Polished, sorted and strung in Ketang — not bought in and relabelled.

Ketang Town in Shanwei is one of China's main crystal-processing clusters, and our workshop sits in the industrial park there. Beads are polished, graded by hand, strung and photographed on site before they are packed for export.

The workshop building in the Ketang industrial park, Shanwei
The workshop — Ketang Industrial Park, Shanwei

Polishing equipment, grading benches and packing all sit in this building. If you want to send an inspector or a courier, the address is on this page.

Polishing and tumbling machines on the workshop floor at Ketang
Polishing floor
Workers sorting coloured beads by hand at benches, with stacked trays
Sorting benches
Close view of a sorting table: trays of beads and a weighing scale
Hand grading, tray by tray

How an order is made

Four steps, all done at the workshop.

This is the sequence the photos above are showing, run in our own workshop.

  1. 01

    Polish

    Beads are tumbled and polished on site before they are graded. The polishing floor is in the building shown above — not a partner we resell through.

  2. 02

    Sort by hand

    At the benches, each lot is divided into A and AA by the feature that stone is bought for — rutile density, flash, inclusion coverage.

  3. 03

    String and finish

    Double elastic with a knotted join. Bead count and strand length are checked against the line specification.

  4. 04

    Photograph and pack

    The lot is photographed before dispatch and packed grouped by SKU, so the carton matches what you approved.

Also in production

The stones we handle beyond the three core collections.

Name a stone and we will tell you whether it is in stock or made to order. These photographs are from our own lots.

Ask about stock
Blue moonstone beads sorted in a tray at the workshop
Blue moonstoneSoft blue-violet body
Nanhong agate beads from a production lot
Nanhong agateDeep red, opaque
Red garden quartz beads from a production lot
Red garden quartzRust-red inclusions in clear quartz
Seraphinite bead strands held in hand during a size and finish check
SeraphiniteDeep green with silver chatoyancy

Where we are

Visit or send a courier.

Workshop

Ketang Industrial Park
Ketang Town, Shanwei
Guangdong, China

Ask for the current lot list.

Tell us the stones, bead sizes and quantity. You get a line-by-line quote with a dispatch window.

Request pricing