{"title":"Sandalwood Mala Beads","description":"\u003cp\u003eSandalwood mala beads, hand-rolled rather than carved. Sandalwood and agarwood are ground to powder, blended, bound, and rolled between the palms one at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese belong to the same family as mala beads, Buddhist malas and prayer beads — but they are made to be worn rather than counted. A 20cm mala bracelet, not a 108-bead counting strand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe list what goes into each formula, in order. No “proprietary blend”, and no fragrance oil sprayed onto a finished bead. 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Borneol is a crystalline camphor, named for Borneo, where it was first traded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow the beads are made\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlended incense, not carved wood. Several botanicals are compounded into one bead, rather than beads being cut from a single block.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are selected, hand-ground to powder in a stone mortar, sieved, and weighed. The powder is bound into a paste, then rolled between the palms one bead at a time. Nothing is moulded. No fragrance oil is sprayed onto a finished bead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhich is why the scent does not wash off. It is not on the bead. It is the bead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe beads come out in different tones because the blends behind them differ. Nothing on this strand is dyed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe five phases\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWood · Fire · Earth · Metal · Water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn English these are usually called the Chinese five elements, which is where this bracelet gets its name. The older translation is the better one: five phases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassical Chinese thought did not describe the world as a set of fixed substances. It described it as five phases that everything moves through — east to south to centre to west to north, spring to summer to late summer to autumn to winter. Not five things. Five stages of one thing turning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWood feeds fire. Fire makes earth. Earth bears metal. Metal carries water. Water grows wood again. It is a cycle with no end in it, which is what the bracelet is named for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe bracelet\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour bead sizes. Same length throughout — what changes is the weight on the wrist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eBead size\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eLength\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eWeight\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003e\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e8mm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9g\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003efine — quiet, everyday\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e10mm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11g\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003emedium — the standard\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e12mm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17g\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003efull — present on the wrist\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e14mm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24.5g\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eheavy — substantial, reads as menswear\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it sits\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAromatic bead strands like this belong to the same family as meditation beads and malas. This one is a 20cm bracelet, not a 108-bead counting strand — it is made to be worn, not counted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eContains borneol, a natural camphor. 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Frankincense is the one note here most people have already met — the resin tapped from Boswellia, burned in churches for two thousand years. Borneol is a crystal rather than a wood, and it does the work of keeping the two heavy resins from turning sweet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the name comes from\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInk, bronze, holding green.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name is a description, not a story. The ink is the black of the incense beads. The bronze is the brass barrel at the front, set with turquoise and coral. The green is the moss-coloured wood on either side of it. Read the bracelet around once and you have read the name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe bracelet\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20cm · 8–15mm beads · 18.5g\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade by the blended-incense method. Botanicals are selected, hand-ground to powder, sieved, weighed, bound, and rolled into beads one at a time. 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Not a history — a story, and one people liked well enough to keep retelling for a thousand years. In it the pill belongs to Zhao Hede, consort to Emperor Cheng, and it is the kind of detail a writer invents to show how far a court will go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have borrowed the name for the blend. We have not borrowed the claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe bracelet\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20cm · 10mm beads · 14.5g\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade by the blended-incense method. Botanicals are selected, hand-ground to powder, sieved, weighed, bound, and rolled into beads one at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWear it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLate. After the work is done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the scent\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not a perfume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo alcohol, no spray, no projection. The oils live in the beads and wake with the warmth of your skin. 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It is a step in making it, and the step is the whole point — see below. Shellac is the binder that holds the powder together before it is rolled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the name comes from\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoose-pear incense, for inside the bed curtains.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe method is attributed to Li Yu, last ruler of the Southern Tang and a far better poet than he ever was a king. It is written down in Chen's Book of Incense: hollow out a goose pear, pack the cavity with agarwood powder, close it up, and steam it. The fruit's juice goes into the wood. Do it three times and the pear is spent — and the agarwood carries something that no amount of dry blending can put there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside the curtains is where it was meant to be burned. Close quarters. 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This one has none.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is the entire difference, and it is worth stating plainly rather than dressing up: some people want the stone, and some people want the strand to disappear under a cuff. If you are the second kind, this is the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the name comes from\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePurple air comes from the east.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaozi rode west toward the Hangu Pass, meaning to leave China for good. The keeper of the pass looked east, saw purple vapour drifting toward him, and understood that a sage was on the road. 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