Cheap copies made from coloured glass are available in the shops, but these are the real thing.  Wear them, play with them, let them add something special to your life. Build up a collection and colour co-ordinate with different outfits, choose more items made from your favourite gemstone and create a matching set with pendants, earrings etc. Choose powerbeads for calm, confidence and life enhancement (and/or because they look great!).

Made from 8mm beads (some are slightly smaller but very elegant) complete with toggle bead and extra length to cut and adjust, (unless stated otherwise) each bracelet/necklace comes with its own special story and list of properties. 

Here is a guide to the bracelets available from the CWN Jewellery shop by mail (or online) order:-

Power bracelets available at CWN:

AMETHYST (purple) For meditation, soothing the mind and for re-balancing the spirit. For protection from negative vibrations, healing and easing pain, purifying blood and encouraging sleep.  Also said to tone down drunkenness. Traditionally associated with St Valentine, a stone of love and friendship and a fortunate gem for lovers and friends. When worn with Carnelian, said to restrain those who are domineering and highly strung.   (grade A stone)  See  Amethyst jewellery.

AGATE (GREEN MOSS) - (clear or cloudy, with green, fern-like patterns). For new friendships, connectedness and emotional ease.  A stone of good fortune, health and long life. Said to attract the love of others, to increase courage, intelligence, strength and modesty and to benefit the heart.  See Agate jewellery.

AVENTURINE (green) - ‘The Comfort Stone.’ For courage, calm, and healing . See Aventurine jewellery.

CALCITE -  (yellow or orange) no toggle. For mental clarity, allaying anxiety and to aid awareness and intuition. See Calcite jewellery

CARNELIAN (or Cornelian)  - Colour: Orange/deep orange red (sometimes with darker flecks). Believed to encourage friendship and cheerfulness and to protect from evil, to ground energies and concentration and to strengthen family love. Also used for understanding and vigour, overcoming negativity, bringing wisdom and combating depression and sluggishness. Helpful for lower spine problems, checking bleeding, rheumatism, infertility and impotence. Also said to strengthen the voice.   See Carnelian jewellery.

CLEAR QUARTZ - Stone of mystics, psychics and healers. Helps focus, awareness and meditation, calms mind and eases anxiety and pain. Also helpful for diarrhoea, dizziness, kidney problems, spasms, vertigo, haemorrhages. Amplifies the effects of other stones. Has many important uses.   See Quartz jewellery.

FLUORITE For encouraging positivity, balancing the energies, opening chakras and strengthening bone tissue. Colour: usually clear or purple shades.  See Fluorite jewellery.

HEMATITE (silver grey) For courage and endurance, strengthening heart, regulating pulse, and for ulcers, cramps and blood disorders, i.e., anaemia, plus inflammation of joints, fatigue and melancholy (especially during pregnancy). Colour: metallic silver grey. See Hematite jewellery.

JADE -  Believed to be a lucky charm. Used for warding off spirits, safe journeys, wisdom and long life and for slowing down ageing. Brings peace and serenity and is a good for high blood pressure, heart and circulation problems, diabetes and kidney and bladder problems. Colour: Usually Green - shades vary according to type of jade, ('New jade' is light green and nephrite jade tends to be a mossy olive green).  See more Jade jewellery.

JASPER  -  Believed to have magical properties and protect against the evil; eye, witchcraft and phantasms. Encourages the person to do good deeds. Also used for improving the sense of smell, calming emotional problems and guilt feelings, lowering blood pressure and helping kidney, stomach and bladder complaints, biliousness, and epilepsy. Has the power to console. Comes in many colours and patterns. See Jasper jewellery

LABRADORITE Psychic development, strength and originality. See Labradorite jewellery. 

LAPIS LAZULI - For meditation and spiritual tranquillity. (A grade stone) - See Lapis jewellery.

MARBLE – Green Celtic from Connemara in Ireland- ‘The worry stone’ for calm and inner peace.  See more green Celtic marble items. 

MALACHITE (green, banded) - For raising the spirits, increasing hope, health and happiness, attracting prosperity and removing blocks to spiritual growth. The copper in malachite is said to help irregular menstruation and this stone is also valued for toothache, asthma, eyesight problems and rheumatism.  See malachite jewellery

ONYX/AGATE  (BLACK): For releasing the past. A powerful protection stone for absorbing and transforming negativity. For stress and emotional stability. A grounding stone, (for the root chakra), encouraging connection with and realisation of material goals. Especially suitable for Capricorns and people with a strong Saturn in their horoscopes.  Also said to cool love’s ardours and thus help us release past relationships when we need to. For harmony and connection with reality and the present.  See Onyx jewellery.

RHODONITE - (pink) The stone of brotherly love and self-actualisation leading to selfless service. Activates the heart chakra and balances yin and yang, uniting heart, head and body.  Helps lessen worry, depression irritability, confusion and inconsistency, eases foreboding and disturbing etheric influences. Ideal for mediums. Helps thyroid function, central nervous system, digestion and muscles and when worn on third finger of left hand is believed to induce compassion and sensitivity to higher values. To help heal heart, lungs, throat and joints.  See Rhodonite jewellery

ROSE QUARTZ - Colour: Soft rose pink ‘The peace stone’ - The pink colour is due to the manganese. Used for enlivening the imagination and calming emotions. Promotes love, friendship and an appreciation for beauty, hastens recovery, gladdens the heart and brings inner peace. Believed to ward off harmful vibrations by absorbing them, helpful for aching bones and bruises and for encouraging recovery from illness.  See Rose quartz jewellery.

SNOWLAKE OBSIDIAN  - Colour: black with white blotches. (snowflake). Can be used for removing blocks to the healing process. Good for divination. Reflects flaws in one’s own nature and reveals subconscious, hidden truths, sharpening external and internal vision, helping stomach and improving muscle tone. See obsidian jewellery

SMOKEY QUARTZ - Colour: transparent Smokey brown. Purifies energy centres and has stabilising effect, especially in material matters where it encourages frugality. Heals and lifts depression and is used to aid psychic ability and meditation. Said to benefit the abdominal areas, kidneys, pancreas and sexual organs. See smokey quartz jewellery.

SODALITE -  Colour: dark blue. For courage, endurance, open-mindedness, logic and rationality and for bringing light-heartedness, youth and freshness. Used to lower blood pressure and fever. This stone is believed to have a healing effect on animals if placed near their domain. Colour: Dark blue. See Sodalite jewellery. 

TIGER'S EYE- Colour: Golden brown, in bands or stripes of varying shades. Has translucent sheen associated with the cat’s eye, hence the name.) For good luck and protection against witchcraft and the evil eye.  Brings insight into one’s own faults and guides seekers towards right path.  Used to help hypochondria and asthma. Tiger eye is said to bring clarity and focus and to enhance psychic abilities, to attract beauty and abundance to help heal wounds, bruises, eyes and throat.  See Tiger's Eye jewellery. 

TURQUOISE - (Turkish stone) Colour: Turquoise, in clear or mottled (matrix) varieties. A lucky stone associated with the Buddha. Also beloved by the American Indians. Brings wisdom and protection against misfortune or harm. Considered fortunate for horses and their riders.  Reminds us of our spiritual nature and of earthly beauty. Used in meditation and for helping intuition. Good for throat chakra, higher abdomen, muscle weakness, eyes, headaches, fevers and foot and leg problems. Encourages positivity. Regarded as a powerful talisman. See Turquoise jewellery.

(Please ask if there are any stones not listed here that you are interested in).  

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NEW POWER BRACELETS NOW AVAILABLE: Multi gem, (see rainbow chakra section), Garnet, Black Sardonyx, Black Tourmaline, Phrenite, Rutile quartz, Merlinite, Dumortierite, Mookaite, various Jaspers, Angelite, Moss Agate, Tree agate. More coming soon - see jewellery by stone

SPECIAL OFFER ON POWERBEADS ..

Three for two!

Order three different power bracelets (8mm or 4mm bead bracelets with or without toggle) and get the cheapest one  free! (simply state "powerbeads special offer" when you order). To find your bracelets click on Select by Gemstone or go to Power bracelets

MEN'S POWER BRACELETS ALSO NOW AVAILABLE.  PLEASE ASK FOR DETAILS.

(all items are gift boxed with card on your chosen gem)

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