# Indigo Casting Cloth

> A square of heavy cotton, hand-dyed in fermented indigo and stitched with a pale circle and four compass marks: the quiet ground for bones, runes, shells or charms.

Price: 36.00 USD · in stock

## About
Smooth it once with a flat hand, gather your bones or runes, and let them fall. Cloths like this serve any reading built on scattering rather than drawing, with the compass points marking direction and distance from the center, and folklore among casters holds that a cloth used for years takes on something of its owner.This one is heavy cotton, dense and tightly woven to lie flat under a cast. The indigo is fermented and dyed by hand in small vats, dipped again and again to reach its depth, so the color varies slightly from piece to piece and the corners and center often shade a little lighter than the folds. A pale thread stitches a circle near the border and four small marks at the compass points; the center is left open.DetailsHeavy cotton square, 45 centimeters (about 18 inches) to a sideHand-dyed in fermented indigoPale stitched circle and four compass marksHemmed, not sergedHow to useLay it on a bare table or the floor, smooth it once, and let whatever you cast, bones, runes, shells or small charms, come to rest before you read. Roll it rather than fold it for storage, so the dye does not crease along a hard line.A plain, patient cloth meant to outlast whatever is thrown on it.