In workshops in India and beyond, glass artists work in front of a red-hot, open flame. Now and then a shape or a colour goes somewhere it was never planned to go, and what comes off the flame repeats nothing else. We call these beads Uniques, and there is only ever one of each.

Once a year we hand the choosing over to the people who collect them. Collectors upload the Uniques they love most from their own jewellery boxes, two rounds of voting narrow the field, and six beads come through. This year the choice ran to nature.

Those six are now recreated by hand, one at a time, as a limited edition — so a bead that existed only once can find its way to more of us.