Cream scalloped bowls, set of six
Six deep bowls with a scalloped rim and forty years of wear along the edge.
$30
The things you would use on a Tuesday.
Tea from one slope, spice from one garden, cloth you can put in the wash. Shoreline is the range that gets used rather than displayed, and it is priced to be given away without ceremony.
Blue lattice bowls, set of six
Cobalt at the rim fading to white at the centre, over a moulded lattice.
$30
Wave-rim soup plates, set of three
A rippled rim, an orange line, and a dark edge that was painted by hand.
$20
Pale blue side plates, set of three
A soft grey-blue, a scalloped edge, and no pattern to get tired of.
$15
Rose and gilt tea service
A full service for six, gold on every rim, for the price of two cups new.
$15
Rosaline glass cups and saucers
Pressed pink glass, swirled underneath, and completely transparent in daylight.
$8
Carrom board
The game every Sri Lankan street plays, on a board that has already been played on.
$11
Roll-up chess set
A vinyl board and a full set of pieces, in a tube, for taking somewhere.
$10
Framed chess board
Sixty-four squares in a dark frame, and no pieces at all.
$7
Cycling helmet and sunglasses
A vented road helmet with mirrored wraparounds hooked into the front.
$13
Cricket ball
Red leather, six rows of stitching, and a seam that does the actual work.
$4
Kosgoda garden black tea
Low-grown leaf from a slope behind one house, rolled by hand the day it was picked.
$32
Home garden spice tin
Seven whole spices out of one garden, none of them ground.
$26
Ceylon cinnamon quills
True cinnamon — pale, layered and brittle. Not the thick red curl sold as cassia.
$18
Batik napkins, set of four
Four napkins, one dye bath, and the crackle that proves nobody printed them.
$42
Coir market basket
Coconut husk, soaked three months, twisted into rope and coiled into a basket.
$48
Riverbank clay water jug
Unglazed, and deliberately so — it sweats, and the sweating is what cools the water.
$38
Batik wall cloth, heron
A pond heron in three dyes, drawn backwards in hot wax before any colour went on.
$58
