Rattles
Our rattles are made from gourds grown in California, Arkansas or Pennsylvania with the addition of pine, poplar or cedar handles and pine or maple dowls. They are entirely hand-crafted and personalized in terms of both the interior rattle contents and exterior images. The artwork is painted and/or pyro-engraved.
Visit the Photo Galleryand open the "gourd rattles" album to see a selection of hand-crafted rattles
Photo by Hilary Klimek
The design for your rattle begins with your vision and your information. Whether you seek to honor a power animal or helping spirit, create a tool for a specific kind of healing work or evoke a spirit of place, the story of your rattle begins with you.
We work in non-ordinary reality to come up with imagery that will honor your vision. Tell us as much or as little as you like to get us started!
Each gourd rattle is entirely unique, both inside and out. Each one comes with a complete description of this piece of shamanic art as well as thorough documentation of the journeywork involved in the process of making it. Each rattle contains a dozen of the gourd's own seeds, for good medicine, as well as various specially prepared rattle contents.
In addition, each custom-ordered rattle contains an object within it that will resonate with that person in particular as he or she uses the rattle. This is a result of work with spirit guides. Embellishments may include beads, clay items, bones, feathers, shells, leather or other natural objects.
These personalized gourd rattles should be treated as sacred objects that build in power as they are used.