Meet our artisan partners: the makers behind your gift

Every item in our sets comes from a real person with a real story. This month we introduce five of our favourite small-batch producers.

When you open a GIF-TREE box, you are not receiving a collection of mass-produced items that passed through a warehouse. You are receiving the work of small producers — often single-person studios or family workshops — who make things with real skill and genuine care.

Clara makes our signature soy candles from a studio in rural Vermont. She sources her fragrance oils from a botanical supplier she has worked with for eight years, and she pours every candle by hand in small batches. The result is a consistency and depth of scent that mass production simply cannot achieve.

Our ceramic mugs come from a husband-and-wife pottery in the south of France. Each piece is wheel-thrown and hand-glazed, which means no two are exactly alike. That slight variation — a glaze that runs a little differently, a handle that sits at a slightly different angle — is, to us, the whole point.

The organic cotton used in our linen ribbons is grown and woven by a cooperative in Portugal. They have been weaving textiles the same way for four generations, using traditional looms that produce a texture you can feel immediately.

We introduce these partners not to add marketing copy to our boxes, but because we believe the people behind a product are part of its value. When you know that Clara poured your candle, it means something different when you light it.