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2.2" Howlite Hand Carved Crystal Realistic Skull | No.111
2.2" Howlite Hand Carved Crystal Realistic Skull | No.111
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What you are buying
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Natural rough only
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Never dyed or treated
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Carved from one block
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Cut by hand, not moulded
A realistic skull in howlite at 2.2 inches — small enough to close a hand around.
Howlite is a soft borate mineral — around 3.5 on the Mohs scale — which is why it can hold the fine detail you see here and also why it wants gentler handling than quartz. The grey webbing is natural veining that formed as the nodule grew.
The skull is the hardest test of a carver's eye, because everyone already knows what it should look like. The passages that take the longest are the ones you notice least: the transition from temple to cheekbone, and the way the teeth meet.
Item ID 2100111
Material 100% natural howlite
Size 2.2 × 1.5 × 1.7 in (56 × 37 × 43 mm)
Weight 141 g
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Ships worldwide. This piece is held at our workshop and ships internationally.
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One of a kind
Every carving is cut from its own block of rough. The photographs on this page show the exact piece you will receive — not a sample from the same batch.
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Natural stone, untreated
100% natural stone, never dyed or reconstituted. Veins, inclusions and small shifts in colour are how the material formed; they are marks of origin rather than faults.
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Carved by hand
Cut, shaped and polished by hand. Proportions differ a little from piece to piece because each one follows the block it came out of.
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Checked and packed
Hand-inspected before dispatch and shipped in shockproof packaging.
Howlite — The Quiet Mind
White as bone, veined like marble, and traditionally the stone you give to someone who cannot sleep.
Howlite was identified in Nova Scotia in 1868 by Henry How, a chemist investigating what quarry miners had dismissed as a nuisance mineral. It forms in soft white nodules laced with grey — a borate, porous enough that it has been dyed blue and sold as imitation turquoise for over a century.
Undyed, it is one of the quietest stones on the shelf: chalk-white, matte-warm, with veining that reads like a map drawn in pencil. Nothing about it competes for attention, which is more or less the reputation it has earned.
Stillness & Attunement
Howlite is traditionally associated with the crown chakra and is believed to quiet mental chatter enough for a person to hear their own thinking.
Hold it in an open palm at the start of meditation and set it down when the mind settles.
Anger & Overthinking
It is the stone most often named for patience — said to absorb irritation and to slow a thought that has been looping since the afternoon.
Keep it where the frustration happens: the desk, the car, the kitchen counter at six o'clock.
Sleep & Wind-down
Howlite's long-standing folk use is simple. It goes on the nightstand or under the pillow of someone whose head will not switch off.
Set it on the nightstand and make picking it up the last thing you do before the light goes out.
Tension & Release
Lighter and warmer to the touch than most stones, it is commonly used in body-scan practice — believed to support the release of held tension rather than to add energy.
Rest it wherever you carry your stress — the sternum, the jaw, an open hand — for a few slow minutes.
Why We Carve Skulls
The skull is the oldest symbol of transformation: what remains, what endures, what is left when everything temporary has gone. Carved in stone it reads less as death and more as clarity.
Turn it to face you when you want to be honest; turn it outward when you want to be left alone.
Cut, not created
We believe a carving should carry the memory of the stone it came from. Every piece is cut from natural material, one at a time, and none of them repeat.