The beads. A letter bead is a 90 mm disc, 32 mm thick, with a soft rounded rim - or 48 mm and 17 mm at the door size; the letter is inlaid 1.2 mm into the face as its own color, flush, so it never peels. A spacer is a 40 mm barrel. A charm is as big as a letter. Every bead has a channel straight across for the cord, cut as a teardrop so it is made clean - 13 mm for the wall size's rope, 3.5 mm for the door size's waxed cotton. Four letter beads to a plate; a five-letter name is two plates and an afternoon.
On the wall. The beads come strung with a length to spare at each end - 10 mm cotton rope at the wall size, 2 mm waxed cotton at the door size — tie a loop and hang it on two hooks or nails, or tie it off to a curtain rod. A five-letter name with spacers and two charms hangs about 75 cm (30 in) wide at the wall size, and about 40 cm (16 in) at the door size. PLA; wipe with a damp cloth.