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Everwood Original

Cascade Cinder Rock Padauk Wood Beaded Bracelet

Cascade Cinder Rock Padauk Wood Beaded Bracelet

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Padauk is the wood that changes color, and the Cascade Cinder Rock bracelet from Everwood Original is where that change is the whole story. Padauk beads start a bright orange-red and deepen with light toward a dark reddish brown, so the strand you wear in a year will not be the strand you unwrapped. Each bead is 8 mm, about 0.31 inch, strung on black elastic stretch cord with a stainless steel accent bead.

  • Orange now, brown later. Padauk is known for shifting from vivid orange-red to a deep red-brown under light, and beads on a wrist get plenty of light.
  • Red beside brown leather. The warm red reads as the accent next to a brown strap or belt, and as the only color next to black.
  • Slow or fast. Sun drives the color change, so a strand worn outdoors deepens in months and one worn under sleeves takes longer.

Why Padauk Beads Change Color

A wooden bracelet in padauk is bought for the red and kept for the brown. The wood contains pigments that react to light, and the orange-red of a fresh bead darkens steadily toward a deep reddish brown as it is worn. That is the species behaving normally, not a finish wearing off. Photograph the strand the day it arrives, because in a year the comparison is the most convincing thing about it.

A Mens Bracelet in Warm Red

A mens bracelet in a warm red is rarer than one in brown or black, and padauk gives that red from the wood itself rather than from a stain. Next to a brown leather strap on a watch it reads as the brighter relative; next to black it is the only warm note on the arm. Blue denim is the classic pairing, because red and blue sit opposite each other and each looks more itself beside the other.

Sun, Sleeves and the Shade

How fast the beads deepen is up to you. Worn outdoors through a summer, padauk moves toward its darker brown within months; worn mostly under a shirt sleeve it holds the orange far longer. Either shade is the wood at a different point on the same path, and both look right with the steel accent bead. It comes in three sizes, S/M for a 6 to 7 inch wrist, M/L for 7 to 8 and L/XL for 8 to 9, and Everwood advises the larger size when your wrist sits on a boundary.

Wood Bead Bracelet Care in Red

A wood bead bracelet in a red wood needs the same care as any other: a dry cloth when the surface dulls, off the wrist before water, and rolled over the hand rather than pulled open. Padauk is a dense, hard wood, so the beads take knocks against a desk edge without denting. The one thing it does that other woods do not is keep changing, which is the reason to choose it.

Cinder Rock Padauk Over Time

Is the color change on padauk a defect? No. Padauk is one of the best-known color-changing woods, and the move from orange-red to deep red-brown is what the species does in light.

Can I keep the padauk beads orange? Mostly, by keeping them out of direct sun: under a sleeve, and in a drawer rather than on a windowsill. The change slows but does not stop.

What color of denim goes with red beads? Dark indigo. Red against deep blue is the strongest pairing on the wheel, and it keeps the strand reading as an accent rather than a decoration.

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