If you have spent time in Turkey or Greece you have seen it everywhere. A flat disc of blue glass with a white ring, a pale blue ring and a dark centre. Pinned to a baby's blanket, hung over a doorway, stuck to the dashboard of a taxi, tied to the branch of a tree.
What it is
It is called the nazar, from the Arabic word for sight or glance. In Turkish it is the nazar boncuğu, the eye bead. In Greek it is the mati. The same object, the same idea, across a very wide stretch of the world.
The belief behind it is simple and old: that admiration carries envy in it, and envy can do harm without anyone intending it. The eye is not there to frighten anyone. It is there to catch that glance and send it back, so it never lands.
That is why you find it on the things people are most pleased about and most afraid of losing. Newborns. New cars. New houses. The things that attract a second look.
Why it belongs on a collar
Because a dog is exactly that kind of thing. People stop you in the street. People look. If you grew up around the nazar, putting one on your dog is not decoration, it is the obvious thing to do.
And if you did not grow up with it, it is still a good-looking object with a story attached, which is more than most hardware on a dog collar can claim.
How we set it
Every stone in the collection is set by hand into a gold-plated holder, with gold-plated paw studs alongside it. The leather is either glossy or suede vegan leather, and every metal part is nickel-free, because a collar sits against skin all day.
Fifty-one pieces carry it: dog collars in seven sizes from XS to 3XL, cat collars at 1.3 cm wide in XS, S and M, harnesses from XS to XL, leashes at 115 cm for dogs up to 30 kg, and a shaped collar for sighthounds. Collar, harness and leash come in matching leather, so the set reads as one piece.
Colourways run from Bitter Chocolate and Cinnamon in suede through to Baby Blue, Royal Blue, Red and White in glossy. If you want the full breakdown of what is in the range and which colours run as a matching set, we have a guide to that.
One honest note
We are not going to tell you a glass bead will keep your dog safe. Use a well-fitted collar, a lead that holds, and an ID tag with your phone number on it. The eye is the part that carries the meaning. The rest is engineering.
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