Handcrafted Vessel for the Care of What Endures and Holds Steady Our Hearts

The Cremains Satchels are assembled using deadstock and vintage materials, hemp cording, wool stars, and vintage buttons.  A modest keeper for the physical fragments that carry immeasurable meaning.

There are moments when a body becomes memory. A tiny tug of when your beloved human or an animal companion are but a thought that once traced the same timeline as you. These memories encompass a place in space and time that shaped you and the season that altered your life in such a way as to be completely and justly, unexplainable. After the rituals are complete and the visitors have gone home, there is often something small left behind whether it is ash, fur, bones, soil, petals, or dust.

What are Cremains Satchels

• A handcrafted textile satchel designed to celebrate the life of your loved one with a personal touch.  

• A container, or holder, that allows you to create a one-of-a-kind memorial that truly captures their spirit.  

• Meticulously made satchel from a durable yet serenely soft mix of textiles, hemp cording, wool stars and vintage buttons.

• Designed to honor your cherished memories and offer a tactile connection with discontinued yardage, forgotten remnants, heirloom textiles, and overlooked scraps.

• For many different kinds of journeys: as a cherished keepsake at your home altar, placed within a burial urn, or carried during a scattering ceremony, this satchel is a versatile and honest vessel for remembrance.

Remembrance does not require new extraction from the earth.  It requires devotion and intention by hands willing to mend and reshape what already exists.

Why These Textile Cremains Satchels Exist

Because grief is not abstract and the body responds where the memories settle.  We reach instinctively for what we have lost.  We want something to hold and something in the waking world to be tangible that bridges the invisible.  The Textile Cremains Satchel offers that bridge.

It is designed for:

• Holding a small portion of ashes

• Carrying remains during travel or pilgrimage

• Dividing ashes among family members

• Keeping soil from a gravesite

• Preserving fur, hair, dried flowers, or handwritten notes

• Safeguarding a fragment of something sacred

It allows remembrance to move and be with you.  It is about closeness.  These can be held in the palm of your hand or lap, resting on an altar, traveling with you across miles, sitting quietly beside your bed.

Materials and Assembly

• Upcycled and vintage textiles

• Deadstock fabric remnants

• Sturdy construction with double and top stitching

• Secure closure with hemp cording

• Approximate size: 10 inches x 10 inches

• Material: fossil gray linen, stone gray cotton velveteen, buttercup yellow wool star, lemon yellow stitching, deep red hemp cording with black whipped ends, vintage buttons sewn on separately with goldenrod sashiko thread

• Features: double folded top, 48 inches of drawstring, unlined raw edges inside, boxed gusseted bottom

• Capacity: holds up to 6 cups of ashes (images show 4 cups)

There is humility in reclaimed cloth.  It has already served and endured the years of time.  Now it is entrusted with a very important task to be a signature of tenderness.  Each satchel is made in small batches depending on the reclaimed materials currently available in our studio.  This means your piece will be singular.  The fabric you receive may not ever be repeated.

Uses for Textile Cremains Satchels

If holding cremains:
We recommend placing ashes first inside a small biodegradable pouch or sealed inner packet before placing them inside the satchel for added security and longevity.

Some people carry the satchel for rituals and keep it stored in a sacred drawer.  It can sit gently on a dedicated altar or be mobile as on a pilgrimage.  

A Note on Intention

This piece is not about death; it is about continuity.
Ash is not an ending; it is a transformation of matter.

These textiles have done something similar and once were in a completely different life: celebrations, ordinary days, quiet afternoons.  They absorbed sunlight.  They moved through hands and across time.  They existed as something else before this moment.  They now are with you and yours.  

Care for Textile Cremains Satchels

Because these pieces are made from reclaimed textiles:  keep dry when possible, handle with gentleness, avoid overfilling.  The textiles will soften over time and the threads may settle.  Wear is not deterioration, rather, it is evidence of closeness.  If needed, spot clean gently with a damp cloth and gentle soaps, allow the entire piece to air dry.