The journal

Stories from the workshop

How the things we sell are actually made, how to look after them, and the people in Kathmandu who make them.

How a Tibetan singing bowl is made

Seven metals, a coal fire and about a thousand hammer blows. A look at how our bowls are shaped by hand in a Patan workshop.

Yak wool gets softer with age if you let it. Wash it rarely, dry it flat, and keep it away from the one thing that actually ruins it.

Our bags come from a handful of small workshops around Kathmandu, not a factory. Here is who makes them, and why we buy this way.