Description

Linen bags/pouches are a strong, pleasant and durable product for keeping various little things. Linen pouches are decorated with „Etno“ style Lithuanian national symbols. The power of symbols has been believed since ancient times, therefore their influence on people was really great. That is why all objects, houses, clothes created  by people and used in everyday life were decorated with positive symbols with sacred meaning, in which wishes and greetings were coded. People who knew that could read them.

These linen bags/pouches will perfectly suit for packing small presents for the participants of christenings, weddings or birthdays. They can also be just a stylish  detail of the interior. The print does not wash off. On one side of the poch a handmade twisted string is attached.

Sizes of pouches can slightly differ because they are made from scraps of different size; this is our small contribution to the reduction of textile waste.

By pressing these signs into bags wishes and greetings are coded.

If you know this, you can read them.

• Diamond – Earth symbol meaning fertility; might be  the sign of the sun, or could have meant the sky‘s (God‘s) eye.
• Diamond with points, most often called „eyelet“, „crow‘s eye“. It was related with a sky deity. It is the symbol of femininity.
• Sign of „a small frog“ – the symbol of fertility, vitality, earthiness and fundamental of femininty.
• Diamond with „small sprouts“, called „sturgeon“, but most commonly „rosette“. It is thought to be the symbol of the Tree of Life and its blossoms, the symbol of love. It also symbolizes beauty and health.
• Serrated diamond, often called „small apple“. It often symbolizes fertility, extension of the lineage, love and weddings.
• Diamond with hooks called „turtle“. It is the symbol of fertility and earthly life.
• „Cross“, „Graveboard“ is considered to be the emblem of pagan sun and fire. It is the symbol of protection and spiritual safety. The role of this sign means knotting, tying, protection, care, good wishes, the power of spiritual safety.
• „Swastika“ – the symbol of fire and sun, also called the symbol of the rotating sun. The creating power in motion. It is the symbol of luck and happiness.
• „A small grass-snake“ used to have many meanings. It is associated with fertility of soil, people and animals, with health, people‘s happiness and welfare, with guardianship of the dead. Grass-snake symbolized life energy, therefore it was associated with water and the moon, and was able to „draw water from the sky“. It was also thought that grass-snake was an intermediary between the earthly and heavenly worlds.
• „Fir tree“, also called „a broom of happiness“ – the symbol of the Tree of Life and immortality. It protects against evil and means wishing of happiness. This is the connection of images of Fairy and Happiness. In fairy tales a fir tree is considered a holy tree as devil can‘t hide under it, because its branches grow like crosses.
• A roof with a hook is called a „horse“. It not only protects against hardships, but is also the symbol of godly guardianship.