The Yangon Post: Issue 5 November 11, 2024 Did you know that the Burmese are more into tea than we are? Or that our furniture is made from old Burmese buildings? Or that there are 3000 miles of...
Meet the Makers: Carpenters July 21, 2024 In June, we visited one of our carpentry workshops near Bago in Burma, and made this video while we were there of one of our salad bowls coming to life....
Our Sustainability & Human-Rights Manifesto February 22, 2024 How do we support our makers within the most challenging of contexts? We have recently launched our HRDD & Environmental Sustainability Manifesto to walk you through it.
Podcast: Monocle, The Entrepreneurs December 06, 2023 Sophie sat down with Tom at Monocle to chat about how Kalinko came about and the challenges it is overcoming. Listen to the episode here.
The Specifics of Sustainability at Kalinko August 24, 2022 Sustainability can feel like such a buzzword. Something we flippantly throw around over the dinner table, or something that’s embedded in every brand’s SEO so we see it on our screens a...
Tactile Tools From The Kitchen June 08, 2022 Cooking itself is an entirely sensory pursuit. Certain aromas and tastes can feel so nostalgic, a true Proustian madeleine that transports us back to those food-filled moments. This is our ode to the tactile...
A few thoughts on 'home' February 23, 2022 Liese Doucet said in her Desert Island Discs last week that “the word ‘home’ is one of the most evocative, the most powerful, the most beautiful words in the English...
Love Notes: To And From Our Team February 16, 2022 Last week we mentioned that we’re in the process of moving warehouses both at home (Yangon) and in Wales (another version of home). You might have seen glimpses of our...
Why Grow? February 09, 2022 Two exciting moves are happening this month: into bigger warehouses in both Yangon (our Kalinko home) and Wales (right by Sophie’s family home). That means two really important things: we can a) house...
An Interview with Sophie, Founder of Kalinko February 01, 20221 comment A lot can happen in six years. People change, businesses transform; we move, we adapt, we grow. There have been plenty of shifts over the past couple of years, and...
It's our 5th Birthday! November 01, 2021 I love birthdays. Especially other people’s. I love that they make me stop and think about that person, and how great it is that they were born and that I...
Buy Once, Buy Well. October 13, 2021 We moved house a few weeks ago. I tried to throw away lots of stuff. As instructed by Marie Kondo, I asked every item if it gave me joy. The...
