At the threshold of Beltane, when the veil thins and the land breathes in fire and blossom, this rattle was born.
Crafted from the rawhide of fallow deer, it carries the memory of woodland twilight, of soft-footed presence and ancient watching. The head is hand-painted with a butterfly: a keeper of transformation, poised between worlds. Within her wings rest crescent moons, each one laid in 18ct gold—lunar echoes of becoming, of shedding and return, of the sacred rhythm that turns death toward life again.
At the neck, a red snake rises and weaves alive with the pulse of Beltane’s fire. She is the current beneath the skin, the coiled knowing of instinct and renewal, as through moving from the deer’s leg bone that forms the handle of this piece. Bone of movement and journey. Bone that remembers the path.
Inside, quartz crystals whisper and strike amplifiers of intention, carriers of clarity, giving voice to the unseen with each shake. The sound is not just heard, but felt: a summoning, a stirring.
Finish with a deer vertebra, a quiet anchor of the spine, reminding us of what holds and supports. Alongside it, two naturally shed red parrot feathers, bright messengers of vitality and voice, offer a flash of wild colour, a call to speak, to sing, to be seen.
A rattle for awakening and calling the body back into rhythm with the land. For dancing between firelight and shadow, where the old stories still breathe.
this is not a decorative peice , it is a ceremonial tool for those who stand at the threshold’s
Exchange is £135 plus P&P . Or kerbside collection if you are local to Ludlow.
At the threshold of Beltane, when the veil thins and the land breathes in fire and blossom, this rattle was born.
Crafted from the rawhide of fallow deer, it carries the memory of woodland twilight, of soft-footed presence and ancient watching. The head is hand-painted with a butterfly: a keeper of transformation, poised between worlds. Within her wings rest crescent moons, each one laid in 18ct gold—lunar echoes of becoming, of shedding and return, of the sacred rhythm that turns death toward life again.
At the neck, a red snake rises and weaves alive with the pulse of Beltane’s fire. She is the current beneath the skin, the coiled knowing of instinct and renewal, as through moving from the deer’s leg bone that forms the handle of this piece. Bone of movement and journey. Bone that remembers the path.
Inside, quartz crystals whisper and strike amplifiers of intention, carriers of clarity, giving voice to the unseen with each shake. The sound is not just heard, but felt: a summoning, a stirring.
Finish with a deer vertebra, a quiet anchor of the spine, reminding us of what holds and supports. Alongside it, two naturally shed red parrot feathers, bright messengers of vitality and voice, offer a flash of wild colour, a call to speak, to sing, to be seen.
A rattle for awakening and calling the body back into rhythm with the land. For dancing between firelight and shadow, where the old stories still breathe.
this is not a decorative peice , it is a ceremonial tool for those who stand at the threshold’s
Exchange is £135 plus P&P . Or kerbside collection if you are local to Ludlow.
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