The journal

Notes from the bench

Not a blog. These are the three things people ask us most, answered properly, because the honest answers are the reason the pieces are built the way they are.

Why your waist chain slides, and how we stopped it

The single most common reason people give up on body chain, and it is a solvable engineering problem.

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What you are paying for when you buy crystal

La Reina costs more than everything else combined. Here is exactly where that money goes.

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Body chain goes under clothes, not instead of them

The most common misread of the category, and the reason most people who try it never go back.

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