The Zsiska Brand Story
Who is Zsiska?
Zsiska was born out of one designer's refusal to make jewellery like everyone else. Siska Schippers trained as a gold and silversmith in Amsterdam, but it was her own name, reworked, reimagined, that became the brand. Zsiska is personal by design, in every sense.
Siska's journey took her from the goldsmith's bench to a global stage, eventually partnering with skilled Thai craftspeople to blend European design sensibility with exceptional handcraft. The result: jewellery that feels both artisanal and accessible, bold yet wearable, and unmistakably individual.
The craft behind every piece
Every Zsiska piece is handcrafted using high-quality resin, a material that Siska has mastered to produce a signature translucent, glass-like finish. This is not mass-produced jewellery. Each item is shaped, coloured, and finished by hand, meaning no two pieces are ever exactly alike.
What makes Zsiska resin special
- Translucent finish that mimics the look of hand-blown glass
- Lightweight to wear, even the boldest statement pieces sit comfortably
- Vibrant, lasting colour that doesn't fade or chip like painted finishes
- Durable yet light, ideal for everyday wear and travel
- Individually handcrafted, each piece is unique
The Prue Collection - A celebrated collaboration
One of Zsiska's most celebrated partnerships is with Dame Prue Leith, the acclaimed chef, TV personality, and style icon. The Prue by Zsiska collection channels Prue's love of vivid colour and unapologetic boldness into wearable jewellery.
Each piece in the Prue Collection is a creative collaboration between Dame Prue and Siska Schippers, a meeting of two women who believe jewellery should be joyful, expressive, and impossible to ignore.
Zsiska Jewellery at Jacob and his Fiery Angel
Jacob and his Fiery Angel is an independent gift and homeware shop in Padstow, Cornwall and a proud stockist of Zsiska because it aligns with everything we believe in: exceptional craft, distinctive design, and jewellery that becomes part of someone's story.
Our Zsiska range, available both in-store and online at tidingspadstow.co.uk, includes beads (our top online sellers), necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and rings, spanning the full Zsiska collection including the Bliss and Prue collections.
Bliss Bead Series
The Zsiska Bliss collection is where the bead story really begins. Handcrafted in Thailand from lightweight resin, each Bliss bead has its own character, and that's entirely the point. These aren't interchangeable units, they're individual pieces that happen to work beautifully together. We stock beads across five Bliss series: Glam, Glitz, Musee, Vive, and Prue's Bliss.
Glam
Bold, expressive beads with painterly swirls and multicolour finishes. Prices from £14. These are the ones that start conversations.
Glitz
The premium tier of the Bliss range, from £19. Mosaic patterns, butterfly motifs, teal splashes, gold flakes on black, each one feels closer to a miniature work of art than a bead.
Musee
Starting from £14, with the graphic confidence of something you'd find in a museum gift shop done properly. Polka dots, waves, dalmatian prints, playful but polished.
Vive
Starting from £10, the newest addition to the Bliss family. Fresher, bolder, and with a personality all of their own, the beads worth watching.
Prue's Bliss
Starting from £14, Dame Prue Leith's take on the build-your-own necklace. Exactly as colourful and unapologetic as you'd expect from the woman herself.
Plain or Patterned — You Choose
The range spans both plain and patterned styles across a rotating palette of colours. The plain beads are rich and lustrous, gorgeous worn individually as a statement or clustered together for something more dramatic. The patterned styles, from subtle geometric marks to striking graphic prints, bring artisan character that makes every piece feel genuinely individual. Colours and designs rotate with the seasons, so the collection online always reflects what's arriving fresh from the studio.
Our Most Popular Zsiska Bliss Beads Online
Build Your Own Necklace
The Zsiska Bliss bead range is built around a simple, irresistible idea: start with one bead, add a cord, and you have your own bespoke necklace. Come back for another bead, swap the cord, and you have something completely different. That's it. That's the hook, and it works.
The process couldn't be easier. Choose your beads from the Bliss collection, plain or patterned, bold or subtle, a single statement piece or several combined. Then choose your cord from five colours: black, grey, red, fuchsia, or lavender. Mix plains with patterns, keep it tonal, or go full maximalist. Not sure where to start? We've put together a simple guide on how to make your own necklace.
The result is a necklace that's entirely and specifically yours, and that's what makes the Bliss range genuinely collectible in a way that very few jewellery products are. Customers start with one bead. Then they come back for another. Then a few more. It's jewellery with a relationship built in.