Ten pairs of hands, one hookah at a time
Carpenters, leatherworkers, assemblers in Kyiv. We deliberately don't chase volume — the moment we put in a conveyor belt, everything we do stops making sense.
1. Cutting
The spiral is hand-turned from solid stock around a Ø 16 mm steel core. The double weave demands constant control of cut depth — a slip of half a millimeter and it's scrap.
2. Leather
The rings and, on Wild Collection, the entire body are hand-stitched in genuine leather. The seam has to sit dead straight along the full length of the cylinder — the slowest part of production.
3. Quality control
Every hookah passes through the hands of whoever signs off that it's right before it ships — draw, fit, seam.
Up to 100 units a month — and we don't force that ceiling higher
Spiral — up to 100 units a month. That's our real ceiling. Wild takes much longer: hand-stitching doesn't scale, you can't take twice the people and get twice the hookahs. You can only get twice the crooked seams.
Over the years, we've made roughly 1,000 units in total. Not a million. We deliberately don't chase volume.
Wood, leather, steel — and nothing extra
Wood
Light and white walnut, wenge, sucupira, tigerwood, purple walnut — we choose a wood not for how it photographs, but for how it behaves: density, moisture resistance, ability to hold its shape.
Leather
Genuine, not embossed film. Darkens and develops patina over time instead of flaking.
Steel
A stainless Ø 16 mm shaft — the diameter where the pull takes no effort and the smoke has time to cool.