Product design studio Tiipoi has worked with Indian master craftsman Mathew Sasa to create a collection of ceramic vessels using a technique found in a remote village in northeastern India.
The five-piece cookware collection consists of two multipurpose pots and a pan, and two serving bowls that nest one within the other, called Karipot, Karipan and Karibowl.

Tiipoi, which has studios in London and Bangalore, worked with ceramicist Mathew Sasa who comes from the Manipur region in northeastern India, to create the range.
The area is famous for its unique black ceramics that hail from the village of Longpi, which sits on the disputed border between the states of Nagaland and Manipur.
The material is made from a locally found "serpentine" stone and clay dredged from the Shungvi Kong river, mixed in equal parts with water.
In Longpi, this mixture would typically have been shaped by hand over a plaster mould, but Tiipoi and Sasa modified the process by 3D-printing the moulds, to allow for a precise shape and a greater element of detail.
The Tiipoi ceramics are made by hand, dried in the sun, then fired at low temperatures without any glazes. The fact that they are left unglazed means that the pots are completely biodegradable, according to the brand.

"Now more than ever, it is important to rethink our collective relationship with materials and question the notion of a 'good' material," said founder and creative director of Tiipoi, Spandana Gopal.
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