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A made-up word for a real workshop

Singulosity isn't a word. That's the point — it's a name for a place where the things haven't been made yet either.

Dax, a calico cat in a wizard's robe, holding open a doorway of light
Dax, who opens the door.

Everything here starts as somebody’s photograph and ends as an object that did not previously exist. Nothing is picked off a shelf, because until you ask for it there is nothing to pick.

Who Dax is

Dax is the shop cat, and by long-standing arrangement the one who lets you in. She is a calico, which turns out to be the whole idea in fur: no two calico cats have ever had the same markings, because the pattern is set by which of two chromosomes switches off in which patch of skin, early and at random. Every one of them is the only one there has ever been.

That is precisely what we are selling. So she got the job, and the hat.

Honest dates, not optimistic ones

Your basket tells you when your order will be dispatched before you pay, and it is a real date rather than a hopeful one. Most things go out the next working day; a few take two or three. Either way you know which before you decide, and we would rather tell you three days and mean it than say one and disappoint you.

The Singular Number

Every piece we make is given a number — SGL-00001 onwards — printed on a card that ships inside the box. It is not a serial number for warranty purposes. It is simply a record that this exact object was made once, for you, and that nothing else will ever carry it.

It is the part of the whole operation we are fondest of.

What we will and won’t take on

We are honest about what suits what. Steel tags get lettering and line work rather than photographs, because a photograph on a 25 mm tag is a grey smudge and we would rather say so than sell you one. Cork loses fine detail, so the cork range is deliberately bold. Cinnamon leaves are a different size every time, so the design sits well inside the edges.

Each product only offers the treatments that genuinely work on it. If you cannot pick something, it is because it would have disappointed you.

Your photographs

We keep the photograph you upload only as long as we need it: to make your piece, and for a short window afterwards in case something arrives damaged and needs remaking. After that it is deleted. If you try a preview and never order, it goes within three days.

They are never used for marketing, never shown to anyone else, and never used to train anything.

Made in Britain

All of it, by hand, one at a time, and posted from here. We deliver to the UK only for now — the postage arithmetic and the customs paperwork for a workshop this size are not worth getting wrong.