About the service
I build gift boxes around the object itself instead of hunting for a stock box that is close enough. Every job starts with a measurement: length, width, height and anything that sticks out, from a handle to a domed lid. The allowance is set so the piece neither rattles inside nor pushes up against the top. A lid held open from below warps within a week, and the gift looks dented before anyone unties the ribbon.
Board weight comes next, chosen for the contents and for the trip the parcel will actually make. A light souvenir is fine in micro-flute; anything heavy or breakable gets a rigid carton with a corrugated insert cut to the silhouette, so the item drops into its seat and stays there. Lids are either shell, one piece lifting straight off the top, or hinged on a ribbon when the box will be opened in front of an audience. For filler I use wood wool, tissue paper and crumpled kraft, never foam peanuts: they cling to clothing, scatter across the room and become the first thing the recipient has to clean up.
Sets are assembled from goods you supply, sealed in their factory packaging. I do not decant or produce food and cosmetics myself, because portioning edibles calls for separate premises and permits, so tea, honey or a cream reaches me closed by the manufacturer and my part is the carton, the insert and the layout. If a set is going to a household with a small child, loose decorative parts such as beads, cones and miniature figures stay out altogether. And I say plainly what postal shipping needs: a soft box saves nothing fragile, so it is a rigid carton with filler packed tight against every wall.
What the work includes:
— measuring the item and sizing the box so nothing rattles or strains the lid;
— board weight matched to the load, the fragility and the delivery method;
— a corrugated insert shaped to the piece, or wood wool, tissue and kraft filler;
— shell or ribbon-hinged lid, with ribbon and a wax seal on request;
— a card insert carrying your handwritten note, one style across a whole series;
— runs from a single box to a hundred, with a sample approved before the run;
— seasonal and corporate sets, built without anyone else's branding;
— shipped assembled, or flat-packed if you would rather build them on site.
Board weight comes next, chosen for the contents and for the trip the parcel will actually make. A light souvenir is fine in micro-flute; anything heavy or breakable gets a rigid carton with a corrugated insert cut to the silhouette, so the item drops into its seat and stays there. Lids are either shell, one piece lifting straight off the top, or hinged on a ribbon when the box will be opened in front of an audience. For filler I use wood wool, tissue paper and crumpled kraft, never foam peanuts: they cling to clothing, scatter across the room and become the first thing the recipient has to clean up.
Sets are assembled from goods you supply, sealed in their factory packaging. I do not decant or produce food and cosmetics myself, because portioning edibles calls for separate premises and permits, so tea, honey or a cream reaches me closed by the manufacturer and my part is the carton, the insert and the layout. If a set is going to a household with a small child, loose decorative parts such as beads, cones and miniature figures stay out altogether. And I say plainly what postal shipping needs: a soft box saves nothing fragile, so it is a rigid carton with filler packed tight against every wall.
What the work includes:
— measuring the item and sizing the box so nothing rattles or strains the lid;
— board weight matched to the load, the fragility and the delivery method;
— a corrugated insert shaped to the piece, or wood wool, tissue and kraft filler;
— shell or ribbon-hinged lid, with ribbon and a wax seal on request;
— a card insert carrying your handwritten note, one style across a whole series;
— runs from a single box to a hundred, with a sample approved before the run;
— seasonal and corporate sets, built without anyone else's branding;
— shipped assembled, or flat-packed if you would rather build them on site.
