The quiet things hold a room together.
Frames, candle holders, planters and vases, cast and hand-finished in brass and copper by families in Lahore, many of them engraved or pierced by hand.
None of them announce themselves. They are for the shelf you pass every day and the table that never gets cleared, the pieces that quietly become part of the house.
— Amara, Founder
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$9.00 – $15.00
Some things on a table are meant to be noticed. A row of these painted bowls — red, blue, green, deep pink — does it without trying. Rang Katori are...
$24.00 – $46.00
A little lidded brass pot with its own spoon — for sugar by the chai tray, for salt or chutney at the table, for the small rituals a home runs...
$17.00 – $33.00
Every home has a place where the small things land — keys and coins by the door, rings by the basin, dried fruit set out when people come. This is...
$19.00
Ayat ul Kursi is the verse so many of us keep close — by the door, in the car, at a bedside. Here it's engraved around a brass bowl and...
$34.00
A little brass easel for the things worth standing up — a framed photograph, a postcard, a small painting, a book left open at a page you like. It's cast...
$89.00 – $200.00
One evening they hold candles, the next they're snack bowls, and by summer they're a bird bath out in the garden — a pair of brass stands that won't be...
$80.00
A tray cut into a chaand-tara — the crescent and star that means home to so many of us, on Eid nights especially. It's made in brass in Lahore, hand-engraved...
$169.00
Three brass horses, each engraved by hand in naqashi down to the mane, carry a bowl on their backs — the old engraving craft turned into a piece for the...
$47.00
The same Tabarruk bowl, carrying a different protection: the Four Qul together with Ayat ul Kursi — the verses so many of us grew up reciting before sleep. It's hand-engraved...
$80.00
The gardens and birds that fill this region's art — its miniatures, its poetry, its tilework — gathered onto one brass tray and etched in by hand. Every line is...
$80.00
Two old crafts meet on this one tray — the hammer that beats brass into a dimpled centre, and the needle that pierces its borders into lace. It's made by...
$61.00
A brass lantern that belongs to slower evenings — the cutwork throwing patterned light across the wall the moment a candle's lit inside. It's made in solid brass in Lahore...
$24.00
A quiet evening, a candle lit, and the light catching the petals of a brass lotus — that's what this piece is for. The Golden Lotus candle holder is cast...
$18.00
Multan has shaped and painted clay for centuries — the blue-glazed pottery the city is named for, turned and fired by hand in family kilns. These small birds come from...
$35.00
Light has always been the first thing we bring to a celebration. The diya — the little lamp that's marked festivals and prayers across the subcontinent for centuries — is...
$93.00
A round brass dish split into three — one for almonds, one for raisins, one for whatever's left out for guests who linger. It's made in brass in Lahore in...
$80.00
A brass mirror in the Victorian manner — the kind that hung in grandmothers' hallways, catching a last look on the way out the door. It's cast in brass in...
$61.00
A silver-plated mirror frame drawn from the jharokha — the carved window that looked out from the palaces of the subcontinent, here framing your own reflection instead of a courtyard....
$75.00
There's a kind of bowl that sits out whether or not there's anything in it — the one that finishes a shelf or a console on its own. Pierced in...
$71.00
The swan has decorated homes across the subcontinent for generations — and on this one, the beauty comes with a quiet use folded into it. It's finished by hand in...
$89.00
The most complete of our Tabarruk bowls — Surah Yaseen, Surah Muzammil, Ayat ul Kursi and the Four Qul, all carried around a single bowl of brass. It's hand-engraved in...
$24.00
A little brass sailboat, a single candle rising from its deck — the kind of object that turns up in a house and never leaves. Safina means boat, and this...
$61.00
Kalam is the art of telling a story in engraving — and on these bowls the story is bahaar, spring: birds and flowers worked into the brass by hand, line...
$75.00
Most of our trays carry the old motifs — vines, peacocks, leaves. This one carries a pair of flamingos, which is exactly the surprise it's meant to be. It's made...
$80.00
The kashkul began as a wandering bowl — carried by Sufi dervishes who filled it with whatever was given after they'd recited poetry and offered counsel on the road. This...
$80.00
A tray made for occasions — jashan means celebration, and this is the one you bring out when there's something to mark. Twelve inches across, it's hammered by hand at...
$93.00
The cutwork here is so fine it's hard to believe a hand did it — but it did, the way hands have pierced brass into lace across this region for...
$71.00
Some bowls were never only for the table. The Tabarruk bowl is one of them — kept for blessing and protection, sometimes simply to drink water from, the way families...
$52.00
Some things deserve a place of their own — two cups of chai, the perfume bottles on a dresser, the day's jewellery set down at night. This is the tray...
$93.00
The carved wooden door is one of the oldest features of Swati houses — an object that divides inside from outside and is made with enough craft to mark that...
$75.00
Even the box that holds the tissues can be worth looking at — this one is silver-plated brass, worked all over in subcontinental florals. It's made by hand in Lahore,...
$40.00 – $43.00
In Urdu poetry, the parwana doesn’t fear the flame, it is completed by it. I named this piece after that idea. An ashtray holds what fire leaves behind, and it...
$169.00
A brass bowl raised on three markhor — the spiral-horned ibex that's Pakistan's national animal — standing as quiet guardians beneath it. It's made in solid brass in Lahore, the...
$93.00
The same pierced brasswork that screened the windows of old homes — jali — opened out flat into a dish: fifteen inches across, its whole rim cut away into lace....
$89.00
The same crescent that opens Ramzan, brought to the table in brass — and lit from the inside, throwing its pattern in light across the cloth. It's cut by hand...
$80.00
A brass hand fan — peetal ka pankha — the kind carried in Mughal darbars, here made to be displayed rather than to stir the air. It's hand-cut and hand-engraved...
$61.00
Not everything needs a full tray — the perfume on a dresser, the day's jewellery, a few dates handed round when someone drops in. Some things just want a slim,...
$140.00
Nur means light — and where its twin Mashal stands on black marble, this one rises from white, the same silver cutwork in a softer key. It's made by hand...
$66.00
Across this region, the pomegranate has meant plenty and good fortune for as long as anyone can name — on the table, in poetry, at weddings. Here it is rendered...
$80.00
There's a quiet pleasure in serving even the small things — the appetisers, the after-dinner mithai — on something that was made slowly, by hand. This twelve-inch tray is hand-engraved...
$61.00
Set a teapot and cups on a plain tray and no one looks twice — set them on one engraved edge to edge in flowers, and the serving itself becomes...
$93.00
Pass something around the table on a piece worked this fine and the serving itself becomes part of the welcome. A sixteen-inch brass leaf, its whole body cut into lacework...
$131.00
Zareen means precious, and this is three precious things brought together: silver filigree, a semi-precious stone, and a turned sphere of black marble. It's made by hand in Lahore, the...
$135.00
In the Swat Valley, woodcarving and ceramic tile-making have existed alongside each other for generations — the geometric and the floral, the dark grain of the wood and the painted...
$114.00
There's a particular calm to a Buddha's face — eyes lowered, mid-smile — the kind that settles a room without asking anything of it. This one is cast from an...
$157.00
Mashal means torch — the flame once carried ahead to light the way. This one stands still on a block of black marble, a candle lit at its top instead....
$140.00
There's always one bowl on the table that sits higher than the rest — fruit at its ripest, wrapped sweets at Eid, raised up where everyone can see. This is...
$169.00
A brass bowl held up by three lions — silver-plated, standing guard the way lions have on thrones and gateways across the subcontinent. It's made by hand in brass in...
$61.00
The surahi — the tall-necked brass vessel with a curved spout — was the pouring piece in South Asian households for centuries. Water, rosewater, ceremonial drinks at weddings. The shape...
$140.00
In the Swat valley up north, woodcarving is a craft of its own — doors, screens and frames cut and painted by hand, no two finished quite alike. This mirror...