Collections

Through our collections, we aim to do two things: raise awareness through the design of our knives, and make a financial contribution by donating 50% of our profits.
We are concentrating our efforts in the following three areas:

F O O D

(Slowfood movement / Solidarity kitchens, reintegration through cooking, permaculture, schools of taste...)

N A T U R E

(Biodiversity, wildlife, nature schools, rewilding, alternatives to oil, etc.)

G E S T U R E S

(Promoting low-tech, maintenance and recycling, teaching craftsmanship, raising awareness of disabilities, etc.)

For the moment our range includes 3 collections:
- KARMA
- HOLO
- W . Y . F

Collection  

"  K  A  R  M  A "

Doesn't such a treasure make you dream? We do!

At Howhy we don't cut any wood and a good tree is a living tree, or a dead tree left in the wild to serve as a biotope for hundreds of species. There is so much wood already cut, already dry, just waiting for us to look at it.

Collections made from the staves of old wine or whisky barrels, limited editions made from old Breton furniture, knives made from patchwork scraps of wood or surplus briar pipe cabochons. There are so many possibilities, so many wonderful encounters and happy coincidences to be had. It's all as simple as rummaging around in attics and taking a fresh look at the materials and things that surround us. To awaken their poetry. To extend or even modify the KARMA.

Collection

" H O L O "

Knives made from a wide range of local woods (boxwood, beech, oak, walnut, acacia, juniper, yew, plane tree, elm, ash, corm, black thorn, holly, chestnut, etc.) in the image of what our forests and meadows should be, forming a whole (H O L O...) made up of multiple interactions on multiple scales.

The handles are sometimes asymmetrical, with a flat side made from a single species, a M O N O culture..., and on the other side a warm, rounded handle made from several species.

Because the eye loves shimmering, varied colours. Because the hand loves textures, reliefs, contrasts and rhythms. Because having a disembodied, disused cereal plain before our eyes and under our fingers makes us want to desert.

Collection

"  W A T C H   Y O U R   F I N G E R S !  "

A knife with messages written on it in Braille. Translated or not... like a tiny experience of the illegibility and inaccessibility of a world that makes little effort to adapt to disability.

A handle whose ergonomics are enhanced by the use of Braille. When the language of disability protects others from slipping and injury.

"Watch your fingers ! ".

There are two possible translations of this expression:

- ‘Watch your fingers!’ Firstly, because our knives really do cut....

- ‘Look at your fingers’: let's look at our fingers in the process of looking.... consider them as one of the ways in which we read the world around us. Braille teaches us at least two things: that to touch is always to look, and to look is always to touch.

And more collections to come...