Dumbara rata kalala runner
Three weeks on a pit loom in Thalagune, in a pattern held only in the weaver's head.
$340
Where the hours start to show.
Three weeks on a pit loom. Eleven days on one carving. A stone cut on a hand-cranked wheel because a motor only runs at one speed. Deepwater is the tier where the time is the object.
Meetiyagoda moonstone drops
Blue-sheen moonstone from the one pit in Meetiyagoda that still produces it.
$210
Matale lacquer bangles
Colour melted on at speed, then lined with a thumbnail while still turning.
$130
Kaluwara serving bowl
Ceylon ebony, dense enough to blunt a chisel in an afternoon.
$260
Thalagune handloom throw
Plain weave, two stripes, and a fringe knotted by hand at both ends.
$180
Ratnapura blue sapphire ring
One stone, out of gravel that has been worked by hand for two thousand years.
$480
Lacquer writing box
A flat box in three lac colours, lined in bare wood so it still smells of the tree.
$295
Indigo handloom sarong
The check is woven from dyed thread, not printed on afterwards.
$96
