Real Kansa · 78:22 · Hand-Finished
Kansa — bell-metal bronze, roughly 78% copper to 22% tin — cast solid in India and finished by hand. One alloy, one craft, across everything we make: a set for a child learning to eat, a set for the table they grow up to sit at, and the glasses that go beside both.
Two registers, one hand
The child's set tells a story that changes from piece to piece — a whale in the bowl, an elephant on the plate, a giraffe on the tumbler.
The grown-up pieces do the opposite: one lotus rosette, repeated at every scale down to the handle of the spoon. Same laser, same hand, two different things to say.
The Collection
Each piece is cast from the same 78:22 kansa, finished by hand, and laser-engraved. Ordered over WhatsApp, shipped free anywhere in India.
For small hands
Four pieces sized for a child learning to eat — an 8-inch thali, a katori, a tumbler and a spoon — each carrying its own animal, laser-engraved into the bronze. Heavy enough to stay put on the table, and still in the family long after the child it was bought for has stopped being small.
See the kids set
For the everyday table
A grown-up place setting in the same bell-metal: a wide thali, katoris, a tumbler and a spoon, each marked with the same lotus rosette. Heavy, quiet on the table, and the kind of thing that outlives the furniture it is set on.
See the dinner set
For water, all day
Bell-metal tumblers with the same rosette on the side. Sold singly or as a pair — a glass of water is rarely poured for one — and the easiest way into kansa if you are not ready for a whole set.
See the glassesWhy Tuoom
The elemental assay we publish — run on the alloy the Kids Thali Set is cast from — reads 78.43% copper and 21.15% tin: kansa, the bell-metal Indian kitchens have used for millennia. Brass is copper and zinc, usually 30% zinc or more; this reads 0.084%. Solid bronze through and through, hand-finished, never coated.
A whale curled in the bowl, an elephant on the plate, a giraffe on the tumbler. Laser-engraved into the bronze itself, so the lines stay crisp and never wear off.
Solid bronze doesn't scratch out or warp like plastic. It darkens gently into a patina and gets handed down.
Gifting
Most gifts for a small child are outgrown within the year. A kansa set gets used at every meal, and is still in the family long after the child it was bought for has stopped being small.
A first birthday gift that is still on the table at the seventh.
For the first rice ceremony — the meal a kansa thali was made for.
Something lasting to mark the day a child is given their name.
Given before the baby arrives, waiting for the first solid meal.
Bell-metal has been the festival gift in Indian homes for generations.
The metal they grew up eating from, passed down a generation.
Message us if it’s a gift — we’ll make sure it arrives ready to give.
