Our Story
A studio built around the stones themselves
Raneel Jewels began with a drawer of loose gemstones and a habit of restringing everything until it felt right. Today it is a small studio making handcrafted necklaces, layered strands and pendants — each one designed around the particular colour and cut of the stones at hand.
Anuradha Kapur
Co-Founder & Jewellery Designer
Anuradha designs and assembles every piece herself — selecting stones in person, planning the fall of a multi-strand, and finishing each clasp by hand. Her eye runs to jewel colour: amethyst against jade, lapis beside moonstone, pink opal warmed with gold.
Because the work begins with what the stones offer rather than a fixed pattern, most designs exist only once or twice. It is slower, and that is rather the point.
How a piece comes together
Sourcing
Semi-precious stones are chosen in person — for colour, clarity and the way a strand graduates.
Designing
Stones are laid out and rearranged until the balance of colour and weight sits right on the neck.
Finishing
Each strand is knotted or wire-linked by hand and closed with a clasp chosen for that design.
Made to your length
Necklines differ, and so should necklaces. Tell us how you like to wear a piece — close at the throat, at the collarbone, or long and doubled — and we will string it to suit. Repairs and restringing of our own pieces are always welcome.
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How we got here
A slow beginning, on purpose
A private habit
Years of collecting loose stones on travels — agate from one market, lapis from another — and restringing family pieces for friends who asked. Nothing was for sale; everything was made for someone specific.
The first commissions
Word travelled the way it does with jewellery: someone wore a strand to a wedding, and three people wanted their own. Designs began to be planned rather than improvised, and each one was photographed before it left.
Raneel Jewels
The studio took a name, a mark and a promise — handcrafted elegance. Pieces are shared on Instagram as they are finished, and sold directly, one conversation at a time.
Today
A small, deliberately limited collection of necklaces, layered strands and pendants. Most designs are made once; a few are repeated when the same stones can be found again.
Craftsmanship
What "handmade" means here
Nothing is mass-strung, and nothing is assembled from a kit. Every strand passes through the same set of hands from the first bead to the final clasp.
Graduating by eye
Beads are ordered by size and tone so a strand falls evenly and the darkest stones settle at the centre, where the eye rests.
Hand-linking and knotting
Strands are wire-linked or knotted between stones, so a single break never costs the whole necklace and the drape stays soft.
Chosen findings
Spacers, rondelles, bails and clasps are picked per design — filigree silver-tone for cool stones, antique gold-tone for warm ones.
Worn before it ships
Each finished piece is tried on and checked for length, weight and balance before it is photographed and sent.
Materials
The stones we return to
Semi-precious stones, shell and freshwater pearl, set off by gold-tone and oxidised silver-tone findings. Because these are natural materials, colour and veining vary from bead to bead — that variation is the reason we use them.
Amethyst
From pale rose de France to deep purple — our most-used stone, warm under gold and cool under silver.
Lapis lazuli & sodalite
Deep ink blues, often flecked with pyrite, for pieces meant to read from across a room.
Pink opal & rhodonite
Soft blush tones cut as heishi discs, gentle against ivory and beige.
Jade, onyx & aventurine
The greens — from orchard to forest — that ground a multi-coloured strand.
Carnelian & strawberry quartz
Warm corals and rose-reds that lift a palette without shouting.
Moonstone, chalcedony & pearl
Translucent, shifting stones used where a piece needs light rather than colour.
Wearing & care
Looking after natural stones
Put jewellery on last — after perfume, hairspray and lotion, which dull a polished surface.
Wipe pieces with a soft dry cloth after wearing; avoid soaking knotted strands in water.
Store flat or hanging, away from direct sun, so softer stones like opal keep their colour.
Send a piece back to us for restringing or a clasp change whenever it needs it.