Standards

What we hold ourselves to.

House of Maya is named for the Sanskrit power that gives the unseen a form, and makes ten rings at a time in Celuk, Bali — a silver craft Indonesia listed as national cultural heritage in 2019 — with a written record kept for every stone in the ten.

The five

Five things the house does, in the order a ring happens: the stone, the eye that chose it, the chain it came down, the hands that set it, the edition it belongs to.

  1. 01

    The Stones

    Four garnets, six sapphires. Formed over millions of years, and never repeated — colour that changes with the light you stand in.

  2. 02

    The Eye

    Every stone is chosen by hand, one at a time. Ten are kept a release; most of what is seen is put back.

  3. 03

    The Chain

    We buy through a short, named chain — we know who cut each stone and who we bought it from, and we keep the paperwork for every one. Where we can go further back, we say so, stone by stone.

  4. 04

    The Village of Celuk

    Made by hand in Celuk, where silversmithing is passed down through generations, and which Indonesia listed as national cultural heritage in 2019.

  5. 05

    The Edition

    Ten stones. Ten rings. Then ten others, never these.

What we are not

  • Not a crystal or energy brand. We do not sell what a stone does to you.
  • Not "ethically sourced" as a badge. No scheme certifies that for coloured stones. We show the chain instead, stone by stone.
  • Not a countdown. No timers, no early-access tiers, no "almost gone". A ring is marked claimed when payment has cleared, and never before.
  • Not a Bali aesthetic. We name the village, the technique and the year of the listing, or we say nothing.
  • Not the author of the making. The silversmiths are not texture in our story; they are the makers of the object, and they get names, faces and terms.

If a competitor could put their own name on a sentence and it would still be true, it is a category description, not a standard. We try not to write those.