A guest is never met empty-handed.
It's almost a rule in the homes these come from. Trays, bowls, cutlery and tea sets, made by hand in brass and copper by families in Lahore, each piece cast, hammered, engraved or pierced into its pattern.
Set them out for the people you feed, on the ordinary days as much as the occasions. The welcome is the point.
— 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...
$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...
$71.00
A pair of copper glasses, engraved by hand in qalamzani — for water, the way it's been drunk from copper across this region for generations. They're made in Lahore, each...
$34.00 – $57.00
Kahwa poured into engraved brass and passed to a guest by hand — tea here has always been half ceremony. This cup and saucer is made for that. Each is...
$43.00
The knife you bring out for the cake — the birthday, the wedding, the first slice everyone photographs. Its handle is brass, cut into fine filigree like lacework, fitted to...
$61.00
It's the serving pieces that finish a table — the cheese knife, the salad servers, the things a guest actually picks up. These wear flowering vines down every handle. Each...
$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...
$131.00
There's a kind of welcome that doesn't need words — the table already laid when you arrive, more set out than anyone could finish. Two brass dishes on a single...
$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
For the table that's been dressed properly — the cloth pressed, the glasses out — a serving set to match the effort. Four silver pieces, fine floral work down each...
$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...
$106.00
A hammered copper jug with a lid, for water kept cool in copper the way it's been served here for generations. It's hand-hammered in Lahore, lined inside with tin, the...
$148.00
A brass parath — the wide, shallow dish flour is kneaded in, where roti and paratha begin. It's hand-hammered from brass in Peshawar, broad and low the way a parath...
$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...
$131.00
Before kettles whistled and switched themselves off, they simply sat on the stove and did their work — and a copper one meant the house took its tea seriously. This...
$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...
$89.00
A table laid for guests has a layer most people skip — the charger plate under each setting, the piece that makes the whole place look considered before a thing...
$114.00
Some dishes deserve to come to the table in something as worked as what's inside them. This is copper, engraved corner to corner by hand, with a fitted lid you...
$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...
$80.00
A tray made for occasions — jashan means celebration, and this is the one you bring out when there's something to mark. This is its silver-plated finish, for when a...
$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...
$93.00
Every big spread has one dish that carries the showpiece — the salad, the fruit, the thing brought out last and set down in the middle. This is built to...
$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
The same two crafts on one tray — the brass hammered to a dimpled centre, the borders pierced into lace — here finished in silver, cooler and a little more...
$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...
$89.00
Everyone at the table knows the karahi — it's the shape a good dinner arrives in, the dish you order for the whole table. This one is made for bringing...
$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...
$71.00
The serving pieces come out only when it matters — when the table's laid for guests and even the greens get handed round with a little ceremony. These are made...
$131.00
The dastarkhwan was always full — dry fruit, sweets, something pickled, all set down at once for whoever walked in. This piece gathers three of those into one: three brass...
$93.00
A properly laid table has a serving piece for everything, and a matched set in silver says someone cared. This is that set — fork, spoon, flat spoon and ladle,...
$89.00
In the old homes here, a guest was never met empty-handed — a dish of dry fruit or sweets was set out before a word was said. This is a...
$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...
$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,...
$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...
$190.00
A hand-engraved brass warming grill — the kind set in the middle of a dawat, coals beneath, keeping the tikka and seekh hot as the evening goes on. It's made...
$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...
$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...
$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...