Quick Specs
- Pack: Set of 10 bags
- Size: 3 x 4 inches
- Material: Cotton
- Closure: Drawstring
- Color: Cream, with a seven-color print
- Design: Ring of seven chakra symbols
Cream Cotton with a Ring of Seven Symbols
The bags are cream-colored cotton with a soft, slightly textured weave. A stitched hem runs across the top, a drawstring passes through it, and the cord ends hang from the top corners. On the front, seven symbols are printed in a ring, each drawn in fine outline and each in its own color. Violet sits at the top: a layered, many-petaled lotus around a center that looks like the Om sign. Moving clockwise come red, with a square inside a four-petaled lotus; orange, with a glyph inside rounded petals; yellow, with a downward triangle; green, with a six-pointed star; light blue, with a triangle inside a ring of pointed petals; and a deep blue eye-shaped outline holding a triangle, which closes the ring beside the violet. The ink is saturated against the pale cotton, so the colors read clearly from across a room, and the lines look crisp at the small scale of the bag. Plain cotton shows between the symbols, so each color sits on its own patch of cream. At 3 x 4 inches the bag fits in one hand, and the ring of symbols takes up most of the front.
A set of ten leaves room to plan. The modern chakra chart has seven colors, and ten bags cover each color once with three left over, so you can sort a collection into seven small groups and keep a few extra bags for a gift, a pendulum, a stone you carry in your pocket or a stone you like for reasons of your own. Cotton is a plain cloth that takes a drawstring well, and the cream ground gives the printed colors a clean background, so the seven symbols stand out whether the bag is full or empty. A row of bags laid out on a shelf, a tray or an altar cloth makes a tidy display, and a handful of them tied with ribbon or a bit of twine makes a small gift for a friend who likes crystals. Every bag is the same 3 x 4 inch size, which makes them easy to line up, stack or tuck into a larger box or basket. The set is a practical way to keep tiny things from rattling together in a drawer or a bag.
Practical Storage and Gift Applications
Use the bags wherever small items need a home: a pendulum, a few tumbled stones, a spoonful of dried lavender for a sachet, a ring, or a folded note you want to keep close. Seven bags can hold seven stones in a chakra set, each in its own pouch, while the other three keep spares or a travel kit together. For a gathering, fill a few with a small stone each and use them as favors for a circle, a workshop or a birthday. Tied to a bag strap or tucked in a coat pocket, a filled bag travels easily. If you like to build a chakra shelf, my chakra, meditation and reiki products include more pieces for a chakra shelf.
How to Fill and Use Your Chakra Cotton Bags
Pick small items, close the cord, and keep small parts away from young children.
- Choose what goes inside
Pick items that are dry, clean and small enough to leave a little room at the top: three or four tumbled stones, a pendulum, a spoonful of dried herbs, or a piece of jewelry. A bag at 3 x 4 inches holds a small handful, so choose pieces that fit loosely and let the drawstring close easily over them.
- Close the cord
Gather the top by pulling the cord ends away from each other until the opening draws shut, then tie a bow or a simple knot. Pull the cord ends apart to open it again. For a gift, thread a ribbon or a loop of twine through the knot, and slip a small card with the stones' names inside before you close it.
- Keep small parts out of reach
Small stones, beads and charms count as small parts, the kind of object behind the rules for products made for children under three. Keep filled bags out of reach of young children, and check the cords and the seams from time to time to make sure the stitching holds.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock these bags as a plain, useful way to keep small things together, with the seven chakra symbols printed in color on cream cotton. The chakra system comes from Hindu and Buddhist traditions, which have their own teachers, texts and practices. A printed bag is an entry point to the seven-color chart that modern crystal practice uses, and anyone who wants to go deeper can study with teachers in those traditions. For other ways to carry and store your tools, browse my bags, pouches and totes collection.
Frequently Asked Questions
In the standard modern chart, red is the root chakra at the base of the spine, orange the sacral chakra in the lower belly, yellow the solar plexus at the navel, green the heart at the center of the chest, and blue the throat. Indigo marks the third eye between the eyebrows, and purple or violet marks the crown at the top of the head, though some charts show the crown as white.
Chakra is the Sanskrit word for wheel or circle. The idea of energy centers in the body appears in Hindu and Buddhist texts, in Buddhist sources from around the 8th century, and traditions count different numbers, usually four to seven. The seven-color rainbow on a bag like this is a twentieth-century Western arrangement that is absent from the Indian sources.
Cotton is a soft, fluffy fiber that grows in a protective boll around the seeds of plants in the genus Gossypium, and the fiber is almost pure cellulose. Ginning separates the fiber from the seed, the fiber is usually spun into yarn, and the yarn is made into fabric that can then be dyed, printed and finished.
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