Dunya Beads was born by the shores of the Aegean Sea, where the sun melts into the water and stories are told through every wave, breeze, and bead. From the earliest days of my childhood, I’ve been creating art with my mother my first teacher, my inspiration. She taught me that jewelry is more than adornment; it’s memory, emotion, and love, delicately threaded together.
When I left our seaside town to pursue my education, I found myself clinging to a bracelet she had made for me. In moments of longing, I recreated the feeling of those sun-soaked afternoons we spent together making beads in a little café by the beach channeling them into new designs crafted far from home.
Jewelry has always been my quiet way of sayingI care. Gifting a handmade piece has felt like gifting a part of myselfof my roots, my story, my Izmir sunsets. With gentle encouragement from the people I love, I launched Dunya Beads to share that feeling with the world.
Each piece is handmade either by me or my mother, a beautiful echo of our bond. Despite being continents apart, we still somehow create with the same touch, our hearts speaking the same language through our craft. There’s something a little tragicomic, a little magical, in that.
Dunya Beads is my love letter to home, to my mother, and to the power of meaningful jewelry. Whether you wear our pieces yourself or pass them on to someone special, I hope they carry warmth, memory, and a bit of that Aegean sun.