Lucky Cat Bracelet — Maneki Neko Quartz & Tiger's Eye

A hand-carved Maneki Neko, the Japanese lucky cat, worked in AAA quality clear quartz and set on a bracelet strung with tiger's eye beads. The cat's raised paw is one of the most recognizable good-luck symbols in Japanese culture, traditionally beckoning in fortune and prosperity, and pairing it with tiger's eye adds a grounded, confident undertone to the piece.

Why is the cat's paw raised the way it is? In Japanese tradition, a Maneki Neko with its left paw up is said to invite customers and good fortune, while a raised right paw beckons wealth and luck more broadly, and the gesture reads to Western eyes as a wave rather than a beckon, which is a nice bit of cross-cultural charm in itself. It's a figure found everywhere from shop windows to home altars across Japan.

A closer look at this piece

The carving is worked from clear quartz, valued in crystal tradition for amplifying whatever sits around it and for easing stress and anxiety. Tiger's eye brings its own well-known chatoyancy, a silky moving band of light caused by fine parallel fibres inside the stone, coloured golden-brown by iron oxide. Together the pairing leans on both symbolic luck and the grounded confidence tiger's eye is known for at the solar plexus chakra.

• Stones: AAA quality clear quartz (hand carved cat) with tiger's eye beads
• Form: Beaded stretch bracelet with carved Maneki Neko centrepiece
• Colour: Clear quartz with golden-brown tiger's eye
• Chakras: Solar plexus, with crown amplification from the quartz

Wearing your bracelet

It works well as an everyday piece or as a specific good-luck talisman worn ahead of something you want to go well, an interview, a new venture, a big decision. Take it off before showering, swimming, or applying lotion, since moisture wears down the stretch cord faster than anything else. A dry soft cloth keeps both the carving and the beads looking their best.

Please note: crystals are not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Keep small pieces away from young children.