Handcrafted Rattan & Seed Hanging Chime

The Rattan & Seed Hanging Chime has a natural rattan hoop with a miniature woven rattan basket at its center.

Smooth dark chestnuts and large, rough light brown husks cascade around the basket, with small turquoise beads among them. A strip of blue and white Shibori-style indigo fabric hangs at the bottom as a wind catcher.

Hang the chime in a window, on a porch or in a garden where air reaches the fabric strip.

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Reading, writing, listening to music, and playing an instrument do more than provide entertainment or creative expression. Research suggests that these activities can help individuals explore, express, understand, and regulate emotional experiences. Music has been associated with emotion-regulation processes and mood management (Peters et al., 2024; Chong et al., 2024), expressive writing has been linked to emotional processing and reflection (Pennebaker, 2018), and reading has been associated with emotional understanding, empathy, and perspective-taking (Rezende & Shigaeff, 2023; Luperini, 2021). These activities also engage cognitive systems involved in language, attention, and memory (Kunert et al., 2015; Maess et al., 2001; Patel, 2003; Yurgil et al., 2020). Musical and linguistic activities draw on shared neural resources for processing structured information, including syntax (Kunert et al., 2015; Maess et al., 2001; Patel, 2003), while music training has been associated with working-memory processes and executive functioning (Yurgil et al., 2020). Reading, writing, and music may support emotional well-being and cognitive development while strengthening communication, memory, attention, emotional understanding, and self-regulation.

Details

• Product: Hanging mobile chime
• Primary materials: Rattan hoop and woven basket; dark chestnuts; textured seed husks
• Secondary materials: Indigo-patterned Shibori-style fabric; turquoise beads
• Construction: Handcrafted; hand-woven rattan basket
• Colors: Natural rattan and brown with indigo blue and turquoise
• Variation: Seed shape and fabric pattern vary between pieces