Why sourcing here works — and where it fails
China offers the tooling depth, material access and process control that make consistent amber production economic. What it also offers, abundantly, is trading companies presenting themselves as factories.
The failure mode is always the same: the sample is excellent because it was made by hand by the best operator available, and the production is not, because it was subcontracted to whichever workshop had capacity. We own our production floor, which is why our sample and our shipment are the same object.