INDIVIDUAL URNS
WHAT'S IT ABOUT?
You tell us that the urns on offer are ugly, kitschy, plastic, even undignified.... That there is no craftsmanship, no art, no soul.
You tell us that your deceased was unique, and that you don't want him to rest in a plastic molding with plastic gilding.
And we say that the farewell should be personal, according to you and your deceased: what he was like, what he loved, what he hated, what he left us...
If we can buy quality but inexpensive clothes, why not urns? If clothes can be tailored for us, why not an urn? And if we can sew or knit clothes ourselves, how about making our own urn?
We have been preparing bouquets according to the deceased for some time now. Colors, shapes, symbols, but also specific objects: from a tennis racket to a propeller. So why not urns?
That's why we decided to make personal urns according to your deceased loved one.
HOW'S IT GOING?
Tell us as much as you can about your deceased loved one. Based on this, we will suggest what the urn might look like (materials, colours, shapes, pictures, symbols). And if you like it, we will make the urn and personally deliver or send it to you.
If we are preparing the ceremony with you, it is easiest because you tell us about the deceased during the preparation of the ceremony and the speech for the ceremony. And we will bring the urn directly to the ceremony (if it is an urn ceremony).
WHAT MIGHT AN URN LOOK LIKE?
The entire personal urn can be made of ceramic and can have different shapes, colors, motifs, symbols, even illustrations. It is more expensive and takes longer to produce.
The personal wrapping for the official urn can be sewn from fabric, knitted from yarn, crocheted from wool, made from paper mache in combination with fabrics, or it can also be made from a material to which the deceased had a strong relationship or which will remind us of him or her: from leather to silk yarn.
It can also be from clothes of the deceased that he or she liked or that you have associated with him or her.
Personal wrapping works by taking the plastic urn we get from the crematorium (which are all the same here, black and plastic) and wrapping it in a wrapper. It's simpler, cheaper, but not only that: it's more suitable for situations where we're going to scatter the ashes from the urn, for example, or where we're going to put the urn in a grave (where it's better to put a state urn, it lasts for hundreds of years).
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
The price for a personal ceramic urn is 9.500 CZK.
The price for a personal wrapping for the official urn, which can be made of fabric or yarn, is CZK 8,000.
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO PRODUCE AN URN?
If we are doing the funeral service with you, we will make the urn for the ceremony. If you are doing the ceremony elsewhere, please allow up to two weeks for the urn cover and up to a month for the personal, ceramic urn.
IS A PERSONAL URN LEGAL?
Yes, it's perfectly legal, you are allowed to sprinkle the ashes from the cremation into anything, you just have to do it respectfully and what you sprinkle it into shouldn't defame the deceased.
CAN I EXPORT SUCH AN URN ABROAD?
Yes, you can take a personal urn anywhere and no permit is needed.
CAN I DEPOSIT A PERSONAL URN IN THE CEMETERY?
Yes, just like a regular state ballot box. However, if you want to place the urn in the grave and directly in the soil, you should take into account that the urn is fragile and that it will disintegrate after some time in the ground (estimated to last over 100 years). If you use a "cradle" in the grave for the urn, these are usually made exactly to fit the Czech state urns, so our urn simply won't fit in there because it is not as regular in shape and it is also a bit larger. Rather, use a chute where the urn has space around it. The cradle can easily be replaced with a chute.
We will be happy to solve all these problems for you, look into the grave and, if necessary, modify it to suit the urn.
CERAMICS HAVE TO DRY FOR QUITE A LONG TIME, HOW DO YOU MAKE AN URN SO QUICKLY?
We have various shapes prepared in advance, which we then finish, paint, and glaze according to what we agree on.