• Chinese Year of the Water Dragon Raises Hopes of a Better Year For All

    While celebrations are taking place all over the world today to herald in the Chinese New Year, this year’s festivities are being conducted with particular enthusiasm as 2012 is the Year of the Water Dragon, considered by many to be the most auspicious sign in the Chinese zodiac.

    Picture by Katsushika Hokusai, renouned Japanese artist 1760 – 1849

  • Linda and Ian Visit the Countryside

    This trip took place during a very trying time in our lives, in 2002, when we had decided to move from Sydney to Barcelona, Spain, and set up our retail business there. We had been working for some months to establish ourselves and things were not going well.  A wonderful Australian who owned a café in Barcelona and had befriended us now took pity on us and invited us to stay for a long weekend in the charming stone cottage she and her Catalan husband rent in a small but perfectly formed village called Tavertet. The following is my diary record of that fateful trip...

  • A Compendium of Demons

    No anthology of the gods and goddesses of humanity would be complete without a compendium of the major demons and fallen angels of the modern Christian Era. And just in time for Halloween too!

  • Hungry Ghosts: their History and Origin

    In the tradition of Halloween in the month of October, Kashgar brings you another legend to chill your bones, about the hungry ghosts of Eastern lore. More properly called preta or peta, these are the ghostly remnants of the dead who are afflicted with insatiable desire, hunger or thirst as a result of bad deeds or evil intent carried out in their life times...

Layla Earrings

Layla Earrings

Elegant drop earrings in our Layla range, crafted in sterling silver from iolite and Afghan laps lauli.  You can find our matching bracelet here and our necklace here

Shadi Bracelet

Shadi Bracelet

Delightful bracelet on elasticised cord, orange carnelian beads finished with a hand made sterling silver Hamsa and lapis lazuli charm

Forget Me Not Necklace

Forget Me Not Necklace

Hand crafted necklace consisting of polished spheres of black onyx, turquoise, dyed grey pearls, dyed black pearls and cultured white peals, all suspended from a sterling silver chain. A stunning piece.

Stoneware Range

Stoneware Range

This beautiful range of stoneware has a matching jug, kettle pot, small and large candle sticks and candle pots. Bring home the French provincial look without the cost! Choose your pieces from the drop down menu.

Alabaster Vase Large

Alabaster Vase Large

This stunning vase is hand carved from a single block of alabaster. Translucent white-yellow with vibrant veins of red-brow running through it, every vase that we have is slightly different in tone and colour.  From Egypt, contemporary.

Antique Laxmi Oil Lamp

Antique Laxmi Oil Lamp

These delightful oil lamps are hand cast in a bronze alloy and depict an image of Laxmi, Hindu goddess of wealth, flanked by two elephants.  Between 60 and 120 years old and showing patina and wear, they are perfect to hold tealight candles in an indoor or outdoor setting