Necklaces for ashes

A Kavacha is an amulet necklace that opens by hand to a private chamber. Families use it to keep a small amount of a loved one's ashes close, or a prayer, a lock of hair or a little earth. The necklaces here have the most room inside, largest first, each cast in 925 sterling silver and ready to ship within 2 business days.

How much each one holds

Every chamber was measured from its design file with the cap closed. The largest, the Kerala Large and the Pankaj, measure about 3.6 to 3.7 ml inside, with openings of about 11 to 12 mm. The slimmest here, the Capsule Small and the Moksha, measure about 0.5 ml. A real fill is somewhat less, because you leave room for the cap to close, and ashes are a coarse powder, so these figures are a guide, not a promise of weight. Chamber sizes gives every design side by side.

How it closes

Each chamber closes by hand with a twist-lock, and the cap stays on the chain: chamber sizes describes how.

Before you fill it

Please contact us before you fill a Kavacha with ashes. Keeping a loved one's ashes close goes through filling step by step and how different faiths and families think about keeping ashes. Carry Them Close is Jayashri's page about keeping someone near.

Every design is also made to order in 14K or 18K yellow gold, except SOULROCKER, in 4 to 6 weeks: see 14K and 18K gold. Funeral homes can share memorial keepsakes with the families they serve.