Dreamcatchers & Wind Chimes

Things that hang, and make a room or a doorway feel finished.

The brass Indian chimes are the ones for indoors — a short, bright note as a door opens, small enough for a hallway. The bamboo and coconut-leaf chimes are deeper and slower, and they are built for outside: a porch, a tree, the corner of a garden where the wind actually reaches.

The Tree of Life dreamcatchers are the quiet ones. They do nothing but hang in a window and catch the light, and they are the piece people buy for a room they have just finished decorating. If that is the occasion, housewarming gifts collects the rest of it, and Stones & Stillness is where the crystal side of the same shelf lives.

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesBrass Om Chime with Chakra Beads, 53cm £11.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesBrass Elephant Chime with Chakra Beads £11.95

Brass Bell Chimes, Large Buddha Face, 15 Bells

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Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesBrass Bell Chimes, Large Buddha Face, 15 Bells £24.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesBrass Fish Drop Chime, 7 Bells, 54cm £20.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesLarge Brass Tree of Life Bell Chime, 35cm £20.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesBrass Tree of Life Chime, 3 Bells, 31cm £11.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesBrass Buddha Chime with Chakra Beads £44.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesBrass Tree of Life Chime, 5 Bells, 36cm £20.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesRuby Heart Brass Chimes, three bells £37.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesCoconut Dragon Bamboo Wind Chime £14.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesOm Brass Chimes, seven bells £11.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesTree of Life Dreamcatcher, 22cm cotton £28.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesBuddha Brass Chimes, five bells £11.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesCoconut Leaf Wind Chime, whitewash £16.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesTri-Pentagram Brass Chimes, seven bells £11.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesTree of Life Dreamcatcher, 12cm £34.95

Dreamcatchers & Wind ChimesBamboo Wind Chime, twelve tubes £14.95

Choosing one

Start with where it will hang, because that decides the sound. Indoors, brass: the Om chime at £11.95 is 53cm of chakra beads and small bells, and it rings when somebody walks past rather than when the wind blows. The Ruby Heart chime at £37.95 has three bells rather than fifteen — a simpler note that stops sooner, which is what a hallway wants by the third day.

Outdoors, bamboo and coconut. The twelve-tube bamboo chime at £14.95 is 130cm long and knocks in a low hollow note that carries through a closed window; the coconut leaf chime at £16.95 rustles instead, closer to paper than to a bell. For a porch that wants announcing, the Buddha face chime at £24.95 hangs fifteen bells on a 36cm frame.

The dreamcatchers do nothing but hang and catch the light. The 12cm hoop is small enough for a window catch; the 22cm cotton one at £28.95 is three times the weight and belongs on a wall.

Buddha and home decor is the standing version of this shelf — carved figures rather than hanging ones — and Stones & Stillness holds the crystal side of it.

Most of these are bought for a room somebody has just finished, which is housewarming gifts, and the smaller chimes sit under twenty on gifts under £20.

Questions we get asked

Can the bamboo wind chimes stay outside all year?

They are made for outdoors and will weather to a softer grey, which most people prefer. Bring them in for a hard winter if you want to keep the pale colour, and take them down in a gale — bamboo tubes are light but they are not silent.

How loud are the brass chimes indoors?

Quiet. They need a real draught to sound at all, which is why they work by a door rather than in the middle of a room. The 3-bell versions are softer than the 7-bell.

Are the dreamcatchers all the same size?

No — 12cm and 22cm, and the colours are assorted, so the one you receive may not match the photograph exactly. Each is hand-finished, which is where the variation comes from.