A Mumbai metal house since 1963

The range runs from the commercial kitchen to the pooja room. Kitchen vessels in brass and copper: the tope and deg (deep cooking pots), handi, kadhai, the langdi and lagan (wide, low cooking pots) and the parat (a dish for kneading dough). Tableware in kansa and brass: thalis, bowls, glasses, spoons. Drinkware, serveware, storage, gift and pooja pieces.

Every product has a code, and every size has its own code. Quote HV239 and a size, and there is no doubt which parat you mean.

We work in three metals, and each does a different job. Brass, copper with zinc, is the metal of the Indian kitchen and the temple. Copper conducts heat best and is the traditional metal for drinking water. Kansa, copper with tin, is the metal for eating and serving.

Every product is listed under its metal, so you always know what you are buying. Brass and copper that will touch cooking food should be lined with tin, called kalai. India's food regulations treat unlined vessels as unfit for food.

Some of our pieces are still shaped, hammered and finished by hand. The facets on a hammered handi and the soft shine on a hand-finished kansa thali come from that work.

We commission the artisans who make them again and again, and we encourage them to bring their own designs. Steady orders are what keep a craft like this practised, and passed on.

Most of what we sell goes to businesses that sell it on or use it every day. So the catalogue is built for ordering.

Plain vessels are usually priced by weight and finished pieces by the piece, on the day's metal rate.

The traditional vessels change little. Around them, the range keeps growing: copper bottles in several designs, hammered and etched serveware, coffee filter sets, coloured masala boxes.

New pieces appear first under new arrivals, each with its code and sizes.