For yourself Carry
Stay close. Keep your own pace.
A reminder to leave room for your own choices.
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绳峡留白The Space Between
shéng xiá liú bái
Close, with room to be.
PriceAt release
Brown and ivory beads make one circle. Two pale green ends face each other across an open span of braided cord, joined by a single knot.
In development
Not yet available to order. Materials and size are being confirmed on the sample.
- Form
- Single strand · open double cord, central knot
- Materials
- Being confirmed on the sample
- Size
- Confirmed on the sample Find your size
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For you
I value us, and I respect your space.
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Materials, size & how sure we are＋
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ColourBrown, ivory, pale green, gold-tone detailsAs photographed
FormSingle strand; an open double cord with a central knotAs photographed
MaterialsThe name of each material, and any treatment, dye or coatingConfirming
SizeBead sizes, strand length and weightMeasuring
Who made whatDesign, beads and parts, assemblyRecording
Fit & sizing＋
The two cord ends meet at a central knot. How the knot works, the finished length and how the cords sit on the wrist will be checked on the sample and listed here.
Care＋
Keep it dry, put it on last and take it off first, and store it on its own. Care for each specific material will be listed here once the materials are confirmed.
Shipping, returns & duties＋
The first release ships to the United States. Shipping times, costs, duties and returns will be published here before anything is sold.
The idea
After the dense,
a stretch of open space.
A farewell painting led us to look again at the change from round beads to braided cord in this piece.
The painting is a reference we adopted after the design: a way of looking, not where the piece began.
01 · A way of looking
A parting,
kept in a painting.
Shen Zhou painted Farewell at a Spring River in 1499. A boat and figures on the bank are taking leave of one another; the museum places it among farewell paintings, which keep a parting in a picture to mark a friendship.
We looked at something narrower: its density and openness. On the right, trees and rocks are dense; moving left, the water is drawn with fewer and fewer strokes, and the boat and figures leave that openness alone.
A
B02 · Dense and open, side by side
The same change,
in beads and cord.
The brown and ivory beads make a denser run. At the two pale green beads they stop, and twin braided cords carry the outline on, with space still showing between them.
We chose to keep that difference: the beads have weight; the cord is lighter and more open. The knot at the centre stays, as a pause among the lines.
03 · Back to the whole piece
Full beads,
light lines.
The brown, ivory and pale green beads hold the eye; the braided cord lets the outline open out. Two kinds of weight in one piece is what we wanted to keep.
The painting offered one way of looking at it. You might simply like the colours, and the way bead and cord sit side by side.
With you
Room to be,
close at hand.
For someone you cherish Give
“I value us, and I respect your space.”
A wish for closeness that stays attentive to the other person’s way of being.
Another way of looking · a relationshipClose, with room to be.＋
Brown and ivory beads form one arc. At its two ends, pale green beads mark where the beaded path becomes cord; the two ends face one another without touching.
We read this as two people sharing a life and a rhythm, while each person’s feelings and choices remain their own. The cords still meet at the knot: the space belongs to the connection.
Along one curve, the beads keep their own grain, colour and light. Being together need not erase either person’s outline.
A second reading of the same piece. Neither changes what it is; choose the one you like, or neither.