Wood Soul, an adult coloring book is here —digital or physical, on Amazon

32 mandalas drawn from Romanian carved wood traditions, ready to be colored. Available now as a digital download here — and the first listing in our brand new Etsy shop. If you prefer paper, shop it at Amazon.

The idea came at night, somewhere between sleep and waking.

I was thinking about the geometry carved into Romanian wooden objects — the rosettes, the braids, the solar crosses — and how they have been sitting in ethnographic museums for a century, behind glass, silent. Beautiful and unreachable.

And then it came: what if that geometry could live again — not as a museum piece, not as a reproduction, but as something you hold in your hands right now, today, and fill with color and attention? What if the mandala — that ancient form of contemplation — was always already there inside the carved wood, waiting to be opened up?

That half-asleep thought is this coloring book.

I have been sitting with Romanian carved wood for a long time now. Not as a historian — as someone who kept being stopped by it. Stopped by the precision of a spindle whorl no larger than a coin, packed with an entire visual vocabulary. Stopped by a cheese mold pressing a family’s sign into something as ordinary as breakfast. Stopped by the fact that the people who made these things did not separate beauty from use.

Wood Soul is the book that came out of all that stopping. It is an adult coloring book — 32 original mandalas — drawn from the geometric motifs of four carved wooden objects: the distaff, the cheese mold, the spindle whorl, and the carved gate. Each design takes the radial logic already present in the original carvings and opens it outward into full-circle mandala form. A new way to revive them. A way to make them yours.

What’s inside Wood Soul

The book is organized around the four objects, 8 mandalas each. Every chapter opens with a short cultural essay — not academic, but grounding — so you understand what you are coloring before you color it.

Chapter I The Distaff Furca Mandalas 1–8 · courtship & devotion	Chapter II The Cheese Mold Păpușarul Mandalas 9-16 · abundance & identity
Chapter III The Spindle Whorl Prâsnelul Mandalas 17–24 · small things & momentum	Chapter IV The Gate Poarta Mandalas 25–32 · thresholds & declaration

There is also a visual glossary of the traditional motifs — the rosette, the rhombus, the tree of life, the braid— so you can read the forms as you color them. And a traditional color palette recommended at the back: madder red, ochre gold, forest green, indigo night, linen white.

Where to get it — and a small announcement

Wood Soul is available right now as a digital download PDF. Print at home, print at a copy shop, print as many times as you want — it is yours to color in every season.

And this brings me to the second thing: today I am also opening my Etsy shop. Wood Soul is its first listing. I have been meaning to do this for a while, and it felt right to start with something I made entirely from a place of love for ancestral aesthetics, symbolism & story-telling, that have always been fascinating me and lighting up my imagination. Also, if you’d like the physical book, you can find it on Amazon starting with today. Choose your desired format and platform below:

If you color a mandala from this book, I would genuinely love to see it! Tag me on instagram or facebook, send me a photo, leave a note.

These forms have been passed from hand to hand for centuries. Yours is the next hand in the chain.

Thank you for being here and happy, mindful coloring!