Ritual & Incense.

Coarse sea salt darkened with activated charcoal and hearth ash, for the old folk custom of drawing a dark line across a threshold.

$13.00

A small handbell of solid brass with a turned wooden handle, sand-cast and tuned by ear in India: one clear note to open the working, and another to close it.

$34.00

A pale gold splash of citrus, lavender and clove after a nineteenth-century toilet-water formula, patted on the neck or poured into wash water, as Caribbean and Latin American hous

$17.00

A hand-dipped taper of true bayberry wax in a coconut-wax base, sage green and scented of bay and balsam, for the old New England custom of burning it down on New Year's Eve.

$29.00

Ten quick-light bamboo charcoal discs, foil-wrapped in a roll, each dimpled to cradle resin or herb: the small, quiet fire beneath every censer and home altar.

$9.00

Dried Mediterranean rosemary, hand-bundled in unbleached cotton twine: the herb of remembrance, burned at doorways in old folk custom, now a gentle smoke for clearing a room each w

$10.50

A hand-plaited rope of sweetgrass about a foot long, green and grassy at first, deepening toward vanilla and warm hay the longer it rests in a drawer.

$9.50

Mysore-style masala incense, hand-rolled in South India around thin bamboo cores: a dry sweetness between cedar and warm milk unlit, opening into rounder, creamier sandalwood smoke

$12.00

True Siam benzoin, Styrax tonkinensis, in amber-brown lumps and tears that smell of vanilla and almond even in the jar: the old apothecary's gum benjamin, for charcoal or a pan of

$14.50

Sun-gold tears of copal blanco from the highlands of Chiapas, bright with pine resin and orange peel, burned on charcoal as offering smoke since before incense had a name.

$15.00

Coarse gray sea salt, hand-raked from the tidal marshes of Guérande and sealed in a small corked jar: for casting circles, marking thresholds and the old rituals of a pinch.

$12.00

Twenty small hand-rolled cones bound with true dragon's blood resin, dark red-brown and slow to burn, with a warm, sweet, faintly spiced smoke closer to amber than flowers.

$10.00

A palm-sized cauldron of sand-cast iron on three stubby legs, with a looped handle and fitted lid, heavy enough to hold a burning charcoal disc and a scatter of resin.

$29.00

A pair of hand-dipped tapers in pure beeswax, colored a deep matte black, burning with a clean, steady flame and a faint honey scent beneath the dark.

$14.00

Reddish-brown lumps of raw myrrh, hand-harvested from wild trees in Somaliland: faintly medicinal in the hand, warm, balsamic and slightly sweet on the coal.

$15.00

Pale gold hojari frankincense tears, tapped by hand from wild Boswellia sacra in the Dhofar groves of Oman: the temple incense of four thousand years, for a charcoal disc and a qui

$16.00

Sticks of aged palo santo, Bursera graveolens, cut only from branches and trunks that fell on their own, with the honeyed, faintly citrus scent the holy wood is known for.

$13.00

A hand-tied wand of broad, silvery white sage, farm-cultivated and never wild-harvested, wound with cotton thread and slow-dried to hold an even ember.

$11.00