Home-goods shop in Battaramulla, part of Greater Colombo, Sri Lanka, selling furniture, rugs, lamp shades, ceramics and decor made using traditional Sri Lankan handicraft techniques with a contemporary design twist; most pieces can be custom-ordered.
Best for Sri Lankan rugs, crockery, furniture, and home objects
Kalaya is a home-decor and furniture shop operating from Pannipitiya Road in Pelawatta, Battaramulla, a suburb within Greater Colombo. The shop sells furniture, rugs, lamp shades, candles, tea sets and other decorative objects made using traditional Sri Lankan craft techniques with a contemporary design sensibility. A notable feature is custom ordering: furniture and rugs can reportedly be made to a customer's specified colors and dimensions.
Family-owned since 1968, Midaya is a Pannipitiya ceramics studio and manufactory working across earthenware, stoneware, terracotta and porcelain. Its handmade range runs from tableware and kitchenware to home decor, ornaments and spa accessories, all produced and glazed on site.
Best for Handmade ceramics and tableware
Midaya Ceramics has worked from Pannipitiya, on the edge of Colombo, since 1968, and the company remains wholly family owned and operated. It describes itself as a design studio and factory rather than a shop that serves designers as well as manufacturers in several countries. A client's sketch is taken through sculpting and sample moulds to finished glazed pieces. The site holds an in-house crushing plant, a slip house and a mould making department. Its own laboratory produces fritted and raw glazes as well as engobes and colour stains. Few workshops in South East Asia fire several ceramic bodies at once, and Midaya runs earthenware and stoneware side by side with terracotta and porcelain, along with colour-stained bodies. Most pieces are decorated by hand, so no two come out identical. The catalogue is organised by use. Tableware together with kitchenware forms the largest section of the range. Home decor and ornaments follow, together with bath and spa accessories. Heritage and religious pieces have their own sections, and a horeca line serves hotels and restaurants with durable pieces. Midaya works with designers and manufacturers abroad, and ranges are sampled and packaged for shipment to the client's door. The factory address is Shanthi Mawatha in Pannipitiya. The company states that quality and consistency, together with flexibility and integrity, have guided the business since the founding year.
A home-design flagship selling monochrome tableware, ceramics, furniture, antiques, decorative objects, and clothing by Sri Lankan designers. Its Galle Road flagship occupies three floors.
Best for Home-design flagship selling monochrome tableware, ceramics, furniture, antiques, decorative objects
Curated home and lifestyle boutique offering Scandinavian-influenced décor, kitchenware, ceramics and organisation products for modern Sri Lankan homes.
Best for Scandinavian-influenced décor, kitchenware, ceramics, and home organisation for modern Sri Lankan homes
Redcocoon is the one-woman studio of potter Mihiri, who throws, glazes and fires every stoneware piece herself at her workshop in Mirihana. Established in 2019 and working to collection themes such as Brush Strokes, the studio makes hand-glazed bowls, platters, tumblers and dinner sets alongside private commissions.
Best for Established in 2019 and working to collection themes such as Brush Strokes
Sonali Dharmawardena came to batik after working in pottery and jewellery and in fine art in oils and watercolour. She works natural fabric with wax as a resist and dye to create her own signature lines, fusing traditional Sri Lankan technique with new methods. The Sonali Dharmawardena and Acushla labels are both her registered trademarks.
Best for Signature wax-resist batik womenswear on natural fabric
Sri Lankan porcelain manufacturer making dinnerware, drinkware and giftware, including its Royal Fernwood Porcelain line and a Hotel Collection whiteware range. Describes its work as blending centuries-old artistry with modern innovation.
Orchid House, at 28A Hospital Street in Galle Fort, sells hand-made Ceylon tea, spices, antiques and pottery alongside gold and silver jewellery designed by owner Yameen Hussain and handcrafted by Sri Lankan artisans.
Best for Hand-made Ceylon tea, spices
Orchid House trades out of a shop at 28A Hospital Street in Galle Fort, close to the old Dutch Hospital building, stocking a wide spread of hand-made and organic Sri Lankan goods: Ceylon tea (with space set aside for tasting), spices, clothing, pashminas, books, antiques, pottery, incense, leather goods and recycled coconut-shell products. Reviewers describe it as a genuine all-in-one shop rather than a curated boutique, the kind of place where ornaments, spices and clothing sit on the same shelves as jewellery and handicrafts.
The jewellery counter is the shop's specialty within that broader mix: pieces are designed by owner Yameen Hussain and handcrafted by Sri Lankan artisans in gold and silver, with a repair service also offered on-site. That combination — an in-house jewellery line built to the owner's own designs, alongside the wider tea-and-spice grocery side — gives Orchid House two distinct reasons to stop in, whether a visitor is after a quick souvenir or a custom-made piece. For a Fort address a short walk from the ramparts, it functions as a practical one-stop shop for Ceylon tea and craft rather than a single-category specialist.
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