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Who makes it, and where
Most of what we sell is made by people who have been making the same thing for a very long time.
Often in the same town. Often by the same family. These are their stories, and what they make.
Småland, Sweden. The Assistent since 1940
Ankarsrum takes its name from a Småland ironworks founded in 1655, which cast cannon for the Swedish crown long before it made anything for a kitchen. The Assistent arrived in 1940, a professional bakery mixer redesigned for the home, and it still works the way it did then.
Marcigny, Burgundy. Since 1850
Emile Henry has fired cookware from Burgundy clay in the village of Marcigny since 1850. Six generations of the same family, father to son, and every piece still made in France.
Vancouver, Canada. Est. 2002
Espro was started by two Vancouver engineers on a dare. First a better espresso tamper, then a press that filters coffee up to twelve times finer than an ordinary French press. Coffee, with the guesswork engineered out.
Motomiya, Japan. Hinoki since 1972
Kodai have worked Japanese cypress in a river valley below Mount Adatara since 1972, when a carpenter named Shoji Nemoto opened the workshop. The Nemoto family still run it, and still mill, finish and pack every board under one roof.
Kyoto, Japan. Incense since 1994
Kousaido blends incense in Kyoto, inside a tradition that treats fragrance as something to live alongside rather than something to mask a room. The name means fragrance and colour, and everything the house makes follows from that, down to the woodblock prints on the boxes.
Osaka, Japan. Abrasives since 1941
Naniwa Abrasive has made sharpening stones in Osaka since 1941. Not a knife company that also sells stones, but an abrasives firm whose whole business is the controlled removal of material, with a catalogue laid out as a ladder from a first combination stone up to the magnesia bonded Chocera Pro.
Bristol, Wisconsin. Abrasives since 1978
Pride Abrasive is a small family owned shop in Bristol, Wisconsin that has made abrasive stones since 1978. Most of what it makes is industrial, honing stones for hydraulic cylinders and aerospace and the tool and die trade. The water stones are one line out of that same shop.
Sakai, Osaka. Forged blades since the 14th century
Sakai Takayuki knives are forged in Sakai, Osaka by Aoki Hamono, a family workshop making professional blades since 1950, in a city that has been forging them for six hundred years.
Kyoto, Japan. Incense since 1705
Shoyeido has blended incense in Kyoto since 1705, when Rokubei Moritsune Hata brought the craft he learned at the Imperial Palace to everyone outside its walls. Twelve generations of his family have kept the recipes.
Seki City, Japan. Since 1908
Named for the Japanese word for peak seasonal ripeness, Shun makes some of the world's finest kitchen knives, hand-finished in Seki City by the Kai Group, blade-makers since 1908.
Kamakura, Japan. First shoes you sew yourself
Umeloihc make kits for a baby's first shoes, but they don't make the shoes. You do. Pre-cut vegetable-tanned leather, needle, thread and an evening's work, from a small workshop in the temple quarter of Kamakura.
More makers to come. In the meantime, every brand we carry is listed on All Brands A–Z.
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