These are beautiful ogham staves, handmade in the workshop of Greenwomancrafts, in the UK and shipped to the USA
Each ogham stave is made from the wood of the tree that it represents - so birch for birch, rowan on rowan etc. Many people don't bother with this - it's hard to find all the trees, and in the US several are not native species.
The starves were sanded (by hand) and then pyrographed (burnt) with the appropriate ogham symbol, making them much harder wearing than oghams that are just painted. The staves in this set are about 2 inches long.
The ogham is a celtic alphabet/divination system, based on 20 native British trees. It is used in much the same way as runes, though less commonly used than runes.
The set will come with an information sheet offering a basic introduction to divining with ogham and a drawstring bag made from upcycled fabric.
All wood I use for our crafts is gathered or collected from other's prunings, dead fall and other found wood. We don't harvest any wood.
Your set will be similar, but not identical to that pictured.
This piece will be posted with Priority Mail within the US. We offer generous postal discounts for multiple items purchased in one transaction - etsy should apply this discount at checkout.
Please note: All our items are sent with tracked mail. We very much want all of our customers to be happy with what they receive, so we do accept returns - please contact us within three days of the item arriving with you, we must have the item returned to us in the same condition that it left us in. return postage is the buyers responsibility.
If, and this has not happened to us yet (and here's hoping it doesn't), an item is damaged on it's way to you, please contact us within 3 days of the items arrival, with a description of the issue and with pictures of the packaging and damage, and we will ask you to return the damaged item plus photos of the packaging to us so we can claim from USPS, and we will cover return postage.