Find the symbol people have carried for love, study, work, a safe journey or a fresh start. Read where it really comes from. Then keep it — print it, wear it, or keep a wish for someone you care about.
Each pendant remakes a mark people left, drawn whole and true to its source. Couple pairs are two complete pieces whose outer rings join.
Eighteen of the symbols in the atlas, each with its own colour, each captioned with the earliest record we found. Where there is none, we say so.
Every region we cover, and how many symbols we have sourced from it so far. The empty ones are honest: we haven’t found and checked a symbol there yet.
In ancient Greece, a symbolon was a token broken in two. Two friends each kept a half; years later, the halves fitting together proved who they were. In Han-dynasty China, a fu was a bamboo tally split down the middle.
So every Wishlore symbol stays whole, and every story carries its source.
Wish for someoneMost shops mix an ancient record, a village custom and last year’s marketing into one sentence. We keep them apart, and link every claim to a book, a museum object or a scholar.
The oldest text, object or image we can find, with its date and where to see it.
Customs people kept, often for centuries, and still keep today.
When we find no early record, we say so plainly — it is our signature, not an embarrassment.
Fourteen wishes in five groups, across fourteen regions. Each dot is a symbol in the atlas, in its own colour. The grouping is ours; many cultures don’t sort their wishes this way.
Every piece travels with its story card and a code that opens the full source list. The object is a reminder, not a remedy.
An A5 print-ready card and a phone wallpaper, with the story and sources on the back.
A thick card with the story and its sources, posted from our workshop, ready to give.
Pendants in three tiers, each with its story card and its sources.
A new symbol and its story each evening. Cancel in one tap.
A private note in your own account. Nothing is sent to them.
In 1620, John Melton wrote that finding one meant “some good thing” was coming.
Handmade pieces are braided, knotted and finished by named makers in our partner workshop in China. Each one carries its own number; scan the card and watch your piece being made.
A symbol is a wish people have carried for a very long time. We tell you what it has meant and how people used it, with sources you can check. We don’t promise what it will do for you — that part is yours.
