Welcome! We are Anne-Laure and Aleksi, founders of Kuksa Shop

Tervetuloa means welcome in Finnish.

Kuksa Shop was born in October 2021, following a day of snowmobiling in Lapland. To tell the little story, mid-excursion we stopped at the edge of a frozen lake (by the way, it wasn't the only thing that was frozen 😉). During that break we drank a hot drink (glögi) from a kuksa and simply fell in love with this wooden cup.

Aleksi, on the left in the picture, is Franco-Finnish and has been travelling around Finland since he was very small. For several years now, he has been exploring this beautiful country with Anne-Laure (on the right).

Kuksa are rare products and it is difficult to find handmade ones of good quality. We therefore wanted to make kuksa available worldwide and promote Finnish craftsmanship.

That's when we decided to create Kuksa Shop, an catalog of ethical wooden products offering exclusively handmade products made in Finland.

Values and commitments

What is important to us is to offer natural, ecological and recyclable products.

"Nature is a good guide. When we live it, it always shows us the way."
_{Julien Allaire}

The production of kuksa does not require any tree cutting. They are made from burr, a growth of the tree. They are then carved with an axe or a knife and worked by hand.

Some of our cups have a reindeer antler decoration. Again, it should be noted that reindeer are very numerous in Finland (there are more reindeer than inhabitants in Finnish Lapland, indeed!). When autumn arrives, male reindeer shed their antlers. They are collected by the herders and used to create or decorate everyday objects like kuksa! Everything in a kuksa is therefore natural, biodegradable and comes from nature.
The manufacturing of our products, whether they are handmade or factory-made, respects nature in order to have as little environmental impact as possible.

Here are the commitments we made in October 2021 that we will honour:

• Engage in fair trade: that is to say, to work directly with the artisan and to pay them a fair price so that they are rewarded for their work.
• Offer only quality products, made from wood, eco-friendly and recyclable.

In the heart of Europe and elsewhere

We are currently based in Finland. But our kuksa are shipped all over the world! In green on the map, discover the countries where we deliver our products.

Your country is not listed? Send us a message and we will add it to our list!