My Story
Where texture
meets energy
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been someone who curates — drawn to beautiful materials, textures, and the quiet art of bringing them together into something you can feel. Give me a quiet afternoon, some natural materials, and a spark of an idea, and I’m happy. There’s something in the rhythm of working with your hands — the selecting, the shaping, the stitching — that nothing else in life quite matches. It’s a sensory experience, from first touch to finished piece. Curating isn’t just what I do. It’s how I think, how I unwind, how I make sense of the world.
Tengology grew from that love. It started with wool felt: soft, honest, full of warmth. And it grew into something I never expected.
Chapter One
The wool felt years
I grew up watching my mother’s hands. She was the kind of person who was always making something — whatever craft was popular at the time, she’d be doing it. She used to take me to craft shops and fabric stores, and most of my childhood was spent in those two places. She even made clothes for my Barbie dolls by hand. That was my normal.
So when I first picked up a sheet of wool felt years later, something clicked. The way it holds its shape, the richness of its colour, the warmth of it between my fingers — it was a sensory experience before it was anything else. I began with hair accessories: bows, clips, headbands. Small things, but each one given the kind of attention that only someone who grew up in craft shops understands.
Before long, I was at craft shows across England, meeting the people who wore my pieces. Mothers buying clips for their daughters. Women choosing brooches to brighten a winter coat. Every conversation reminded me why I do this — to bring a little bit of handmade joy into someone’s day.
Chapter Two
Discovering gemstones
I remember the first time I felt crystal energy. I was young, visiting a crystal shop that had an enormous amethyst geode — the kind you could fit your whole arm inside. The shop owner asked me to place my hand inside. I felt something I’d never felt before: a tingling at my fingertips, almost like tiny needles pressing gently against my skin. A strange, subtle numbness. I was hooked.
When I was fifteen, I bought my first crystal — an amethyst pendant. I’d heard it could help with focus and studies, so I wore it to school every single day. And it did help. I felt calmer, more centred. I wore that amethyst right through to my final exams.
The day after my last exam, I was in the school bathroom and the chain simply snapped. The amethyst fell and was gone before I could catch it. I couldn’t get it back. But strangely, I wasn’t upset. It felt like the crystal was telling me its work was done — it had carried me through, and now it was time for it to go. That was the moment I understood that crystals aren’t just beautiful objects. They carry something. They hold intention, and when that intention is fulfilled, they move on.
Years later, when I began working with crystal beads — threading them into bracelets and necklaces, choosing each stone for its colour, its energy, its feel against the skin — I brought that belief with me. Every crystal has its own character. My job isn’t to overpower that. It’s to honour it, and to pass it on to someone who needs it.
The Thread
What connects
everything
Wool felt and crystals — people sometimes ask how they all belong together. To me, the answer has always been obvious: every collection starts with a material that means something. Something I’ve touched, grown up with, or inherited.
Wool felt is the warmth I found in England. Crystals are the earth’s quiet energy. They’re different materials, but they arrive in my hands the same way — with their own texture, colour, and story — and they leave as something personal, something you choose to wear because it means something to you.
That’s what Tengology is really about. Not a category of product, but a way of curating — selecting meaningful materials and shaping them by hand into pieces that are designed to be felt as much as they are seen. Every piece is a sensory experience, and every one is designed and crafted by hand in England.
What I believe in
Materials
I go to wherever a material is made best. Wool felt from the UK, 100% wool and a 40% blend. Crystals and freshwater pearls from China, and Miyuki seed beads from Japan. Every place has something worth exploring, and I turn what I find into pieces you can wear — so a little of each place travels with you. And I’ll always tell you exactly what a piece is made from. No rounding up.
Intention
Every piece begins with purpose. From the colour I choose to the stone I select, nothing is random. I want you to feel that intention the moment it touches your skin.
Energy
I believe handmade things carry the energy of the person who shaped them. Each piece passes through my hands with care, focus, and a genuine wish for whoever receives it.
Craftsmanship
Not mass production. Most of the work is done by hand — scissors, needle, soldering iron — and when a cutting tool helps me get a clean edge on fabric, I still finish every piece myself in the studio. The small imperfections aren’t flaws — they’re proof that a real person made this, just for you.
Come and see for yourself
Whether you’re drawn to the softness of wool felt or the quiet power of crystals, there’s something here that was made with you in mind.