The whole collection
All 149 charms
Every charm that comes with Dangle, the free app that hangs a charm from the top of your screen on a real rope, for Windows and Android. Each one swings when you touch it and has its own sound. You can also make your own from any picture.
Dangle Glass
-
-
Aurora Orb
A violet glass sphere with pale ribbons of northern light drifting around its middle.
-
Disco Ball
A mirror-tiled disco ball that throws a glint from a different tile every few seconds.
Dangle Metal
-
Brushed Bell
A brushed brass bell with a round clapper, the kind that answers a knock.
-
Compass Coin
A heavy brass coin struck with a compass rose, for finding the way back.
-
Brass Anchor
A heavy ship's anchor in polished brass with a navy inlay and a coil of rope, for staying put.
Dangle Plush
-
-
-
Matryoshka Masha
Masha, the eldest of three felt nesting dolls, in a red headscarf with poppies on her apron. Hang her with her sisters, largest at the top.
-
Matryoshka Dasha
Dasha, the middle sister, in cobalt blue with sunflowers stitched across her apron.
-
Matryoshka Sasha
Sasha, the youngest, in leaf green with pink blossoms. She looks best at the bottom of the rope, a size smaller.
Dangle Miniatures
-
Pocket Greenhouse
A brass-framed glasshouse no bigger than a thumb, with two seedlings in clay pots.
-
Midnight Camera
A midnight-blue camera with a brass lens ring and a sea-glass lens.
Dangle Living
-
Moon Lantern
A paper-and-brass lantern with a crescent moon inside that breathes warm light, and burns brighter after dark.
-
Sleepy Fox
A curled-up plush fox whose ears twitch and tail swishes every time the rope sways.
-
Rain Bottle
A corked glass bottle of monsoon rain whose water stays level however you tip it.
-
Orbit Saturn
A sandy enamel planet whose ring turns all the way round when you give it a spin.
-
-
-
Pocket Campfire
A tiny campfire of crossed logs whose flame flickers and leans while the embers glow.
-
Crystal Prism
A cut-glass crystal that slides a band of rainbow across its facets as it turns to the light.
-
Little Robot
A tin robot with a springy antenna that wobbles at every stop and eyes that blink hello.
-
Cloud Whale
A sky-blue plush whale that floats on the air, paddling its fins and tail, and glows faintly at night.
-
-
Monsoon Leaf
A rain-soaked leaf whose tip bends under a single raindrop that swings like a pendulum.
-
Googly Rock
A smooth river pebble with two googly eyes whose pupils roll every time it swings, and keep rolling after it stops.
-
-
Pressure Cooker
A trusty aluminium cooker whose whistle rattles when it is thrown and lets off three puffs of steam.
-
Snow Globe
A snow globe on a walnut base, a pine and a cottage with a glowing window inside. Shake it and the snow swirls, then slowly settles.
-
-
Pocket Watch
A gold pocket watch whose hands keep the real time, its second hand sweeping wherever it hangs.
-
Firefly Jar
A mason jar of fireflies that scatter when it is shaken and glow brighter once evening comes.
-
Pufferfish
A round yellow pufferfish that puffs right up when tapped or thrown, then slowly lets the air out.
-
-
Pocket Battery
A cheerful battery cell that shows how charged your computer is, with a bolt that lights up while it charges.
Dangle Kitchen
-
Bubble Tea
A clear cup of brown-sugar milk tea with tiger stripes, a domed lid and a fat pink straw, three tapioca pearls threaded on the cord above it.
-
-
-
Idli Plate
Two fluffy idlis on a steel plate with coconut chutney, a cup of sambar and a curry leaf.
-
Ice Cream Cone
Strawberry and pistachio scoops in a waffle cone with a cherry on top, and a green drip that lets go of one droplet after another.
Dangle Space
Marvel
DC
Tamil Spiritual
-
-
Vinayagar Coin
Vinayagar — Ganesha — struck in relief inside a wreath. He is asked first, before any journey, any examination and any new venture, because he is the one who removes what is in the way.
-
-
Karuppu Statue
Karuppasamy, a guardian deity of the village boundary, cast dark and standing with his aruval raised. He is set at the edge of a settlement facing outward: the one who keeps watch on what a house cannot see.
-
Temple Bell
The mani, rung on the way in and not on the way out. The note is meant to clear the mind of whatever it walked in carrying, so that what happens next is the only thing in it.
BTS
Football Legends
Music Legends
Friends
Breaking Bad
Stranger Things
God of War: Olympus
God of War: Midgard
Tamil Everyday
-
Filter Coffee
Frothy filter coffee in a steel davara and tumbler, poured from a height and still steaming.
-
Auto Rickshaw
A chunky Chennai auto with a yellow canopy, a green body and one round headlamp that glows warm.
-
Kolam Coin
A brass coin inlaid with a sikku kolam, the looping line drawn around dots in rice flour on every threshold at dawn.
-
Bus Ticket
A punched paper ticket from a Chennai city bus, the kind you fold and keep in a shirt pocket.
-
Festivals
-
Pongal Pot
A clay pot of sweet pongal boiling over at Thai Pongal, a turmeric plant tied at its neck, because overflowing means plenty.
-
Eid Lantern
A brass fanous with teal and amber glass and a crescent on top, lit through the nights of Ramadan.
-
-
Christmas Bauble
A deep red glass bauble with a gold star band and a sprig of holly, blown the way the glassmakers of Lauscha first did.
-
Pumpkin Lantern
A friendly carved jack-o'-lantern whose eyes and gap-toothed grin glow with a flickering candle.
Lucky charms
-
Nazar boncuğu
A glass eye bead hung to deflect the evil eye, the envious glance believed to bring misfortune. Found across Turkey, Greece and the wider Mediterranean, on doorways, cradles and dashboards alike.
-
-
Nimbu-mirchi
A lemon and green chillies strung together and hung at shop doors and on vehicles across India to ward off the evil eye, and to give bad luck something sour to chew on instead.
-
-
Drishti bommai
A fierce painted face hung outside homes and building sites in Tamil Nadu. Its job is to draw the evil eye onto itself and away from whatever it guards.
-
Pánchángjié
The endless knot, tied from a single red cord with no beginning and no end. A symbol of longevity, unity and good fortune, hung at Lunar New Year.
-
-
Maneki-neko
The beckoning cat, raised paw inviting good fortune through the door. A raised right paw is said to bring money; a raised left paw brings customers.
-
-
-
-
Dream Catcher
An Ojibwe hoop webbed like a spider's, hung over a sleeping child so the bad dreams catch in the net and the good ones slip through the middle and down the feathers.
-
Paper Crane
An origami crane folded from coral washi paper. Fold a thousand and a wish is granted; this one flaps its wings when tapped.
-
-
-
-
-
-
