The scale number tells you how much the original grain of sand has been enlarged.

Sand grains are usually between about 0.1 and 1 millimetre in size — often too small to notice their shape with the naked eye. In the GRAINS collection, each grain is scanned and then magnified. A scale of ×15, for example, means the piece is fifteen times larger than the original grain. A grain that was less than a millimetre across becomes something you can hold, examine and wear.

Scale varies between pieces — from 9× to 26× — depending on the grain. The scale is chosen to show the grain at its most resolved, not simply to make it as large as possible.

The form stays the same. Only the size changes.

What you see is the exact geometry of a real grain of sand — simply revealed at a human scale.