Brass Diwali gift hamper arranged around a closed red keepsake box, with two dabara tumbler and bowl sets, an etched brass coffee filter, a jute toran and a lit star-filament bulb

Peetal Prakash — Brass Diwali Gift Hamper

The Diwali hamper nothing goes stale in Almost every festive box sent this month is food, and almost all of it is finished before the diyas come down. This one is brass, jute and lamplight — a brass Diwali gift hamper that is still in...

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02 · Good to Know

Before you gift it

Everything worth knowing — sizes, shelf life, branding, shipping — in one place.

Shipping & delivery

Bulk & branding

From 25 units: logo on the box, branded ribbon and a custom card. GST invoice on every business order — see corporate gifting for tiers and sampling.

Care & sustainability

The keepsake box is reusable and all packaging is plastic-free kraft and cloth. Explore the full eco-friendly gift range.

Product details

Description

WHY THIS WORKS AS A DIWALI GIFT

It outlives the festival. Mithai is gone by Bhai Dooj and the dry-fruit box quietly moves to the next house. Brass gets used, the toran goes back up every Kartik, and the little star bulb comes out of the drawer each year. A month after Diwali most gifts have been consumed or re-gifted; this one is on the shelf, in use, and still attached to your name.

It is not the fifth sweet box they received. Every gift arriving at that address this week is a variation on the same box of food. A filter coffee serving set in brass, a door toran and a lamp is a different category of object altogether, and being the only non-edible gift on the table is a form of being remembered.

It hands the giver something to say. Most people who own a dabara set were never taught the trick of it — that the pour between tumbler and bowl is what cools the coffee and builds the froth, and that the height of the pour is the whole skill. That is a small piece of knowledge to pass on with the box, and it is what makes a gift feel chosen rather than ordered.

Nothing to store, nothing to refuse. No refrigeration, no shelf life to watch, no dietary question to ask before sending, nothing that has to be eaten before it turns. For a recipient who is already fielding six boxes of sweets, that is a kindness in itself.

FOR DIWALI CORPORATE GIFTS AT SCALE

Client Diwali gifting, employee hampers, teams, vendors and channel partners — the food gift that works for one person becomes a problem multiplied by two hundred: shelf life, dietary restrictions, and boxes that have to arrive within a fortnight of being made. Brass, jute and light carry none of that. A branded festive hamper of this kind can be produced ahead of the rush, warehoused, and delivered to a long list of addresses without a single date on it.

It also photographs. Employees open these at their desks and post them, which is the cheapest employer-branding content there is — and the reason the logo belongs on the box lid and the card, where it is seen at the moment of opening, rather than stamped over the brass.

Share your headcount, your delivery city list and your logo file on WhatsApp, and we will confirm a dispatch date in writing before Diwali production fills up.

What's inside

● Brass Dabara Sets (2 sets – tumbler & bowl)
● Etched Brass Coffee Filter (1)
● Cordless Rechargeable Star-Filament Bulb with Brass Base (1)
● Jute Toran with Laser-Cut Lotus (1)
● Happy Diwali Card with Your Custom Message (1)
● Red Rigid Keepsake Gift Box (1)

Specifications

Dabara material - Brass, matte to satin finish, tone varies from piece to piece as hand-finished brass does
Coffee filter - Brass, multi-part screw-together cylinder with an etched mandala band pattern
Toran - Woven jute strip with a laser-cut lotus at the centre, a bound rosette either side and beaded tassels at the ends
Star lamp - Cordless rechargeable star-filament bulb seated in its own small ribbed brass base
Lamp power - Self-contained and rechargeable, so no mains cord, plug, socket or bulb holder is needed or supplied
Light quality - Warm amber filament glow, decorative rather than task lighting
Gift box - Red rigid keepsake box with a lift-off lid, gold foil mark and shred filler
Edible contents - None. Nothing in this hamper is food, so nothing in it goes stale
Coffee - Not included. The dabara sets and the filter are serving and brewing pieces, so use your own coffee
Brass care - Wipe dry with a soft cloth after use, keep out of the dishwasher, and expect the tone to deepen with handling
Pricing - Available on request. Bulk pricing can be shared after quantity, branding requirement and delivery timeline are confirmed.

Item info

● Brass Dabara Sets – Each is a wide bowl with a tumbler nested inside, the traditional South Indian way to serve filter coffee. The coffee is poured between the two from a height, which cools it and builds the froth.
● Brass Coffee Filter – A screw-together brass cylinder with an etched mandala band, used to brew decoction the traditional way. Bring your own coffee – none is included in this hamper.
● Cordless Star Lamp – Self-contained and rechargeable. It seats in its own small ribbed brass base and glows warm amber with no cord, plug, socket or bulb holder needed.
● Jute Toran – A woven jute threshold hanging with a laser-cut lotus at its centre and beaded tassels, traditionally put up over the main door on Dhanteras and kept year after year.
● Happy Diwali Card – Printed with the message you send us, rather than a generic festive line.
● Keepsake Gift Box – A red rigid box with a lift-off lid and a gold foil mark, made to be kept rather than thrown away.

Perfect for

Diwali Gifts · Deepavali Gifts · Dhanteras Gifts · Diwali Gifts for Parents · Diwali Gifts for In-Laws · Diwali Gifts for Couples · Diwali Corporate Gifts · Diwali Gifts for Employees · Diwali Client Gifts · Diwali Party Return Gifts · Festive Housewarming Gifts

Additional information

WHY THERE IS NO COFFEE IN IT

This is a decision, not an omission. The dabara sets and the filter are serveware and brewing
equipment rather than a beverage: you use your own coffee in them, and most households who want
a set like this are already loyal to a particular blend. Buying somebody a brass filter and then
choosing their coffee for them is the part of a coffee hamper that usually goes unused. If the
recipient has not found a coffee they love yet, a good south Indian filter blend is the right
starting point, and the set is ready for it the day it arrives.

HOW A DABARA IS USED, INCLUDING THE PART MOST PEOPLE GET WRONG

Filter coffee is not brewed in the tumbler. Coarse coffee is packed into the filter, hot water
goes on top, and it drips through slowly into the lower chamber as decoction, which is thick,
dark and meant to be diluted rather than drunk as it is. The decoction goes into the tumbler
with hot milk and sugar. Then comes the part the object exists for: the coffee is poured back
and forth between the tumbler and the wide bowl it sits in, from a height, several times over.
That pour does two things at once. It drops the temperature to drinkable in seconds, and it
aerates the milk into the thick collar of froth that makes a degree coffee worth the trouble.
The mistake almost everybody makes is pouring timidly from an inch or two apart. The height is
the technique. Do it over the sink the first few times.

Brass is the traditional metal for this because a heavy vessel sits stable while you pour into
it, and because it holds the drink warm through all that mixing.

THE CORDLESS STAR LAMP

The star-filament bulb is self-contained and rechargeable. There is no cord, no plug, no wall
socket and no bulb holder to buy separately. It seats in its own small ribbed brass base and
lights where you put it, which is what makes it useful at Diwali in particular: it can go on a
shelf, a mantelpiece, a rangoli edge or a puja thali, in places no wired light reaches. It is a
decorative light with a warm amber filament glow, made to be looked at rather than to light a
room, and it is the piece the children in the house tend to claim first.

THE TORAN, AND WHERE IT GOES

A toran is a threshold object. It hangs across the top of the main door, traditionally put up
on Dhanteras before Lakshmi Puja, as a welcome, and it stays there through the festival. This
one is woven jute rather than plastic marigold, with a laser-cut lotus at its centre, and it
folds flat into a drawer for the other eleven months of the year. It is also the piece that
makes the gift visible to every person who walks into the recipient's home.

LIVING WITH BRASS

Brass darkens. It deepens in tone as it is handled and as it meets the air, and every genuine
brass vessel in an Indian kitchen has done exactly that for as long as brass has been in Indian
kitchens. It is the metal behaving as brass behaves, not a fault in the finish, and a set with
a little tone variation across its pieces is a set that came off a bench rather than out of a
mould. If you like the deeper colour, do nothing at all. If you prefer it bright, brass takes a
polish back to gold whenever you want it to.

Day to day: wipe the pieces dry with a soft cloth after use, keep them out of the dishwasher,
and never scrub the etched band with anything abrasive, because the pattern is the first thing
an abrasive takes off.

BRANDING IT FOR A CORPORATE DIWALI RUN

Corporate orders carry your mark on the red box lid and on the greeting card. Both are print
surfaces already, both are seen at the moment of opening, and neither one puts your logo on an
object somebody then has to live with on their kitchen shelf. The brass coffee filter can carry
an engraved mark on its etched band as a second placement, and that one is offered subject to a
test sample rather than promised, because how brass of this gauge and finish takes an engraving
has to be seen on the actual piece before two hundred of them exist.

Send vector artwork, which means AI, EPS, PDF or SVG, so the mark scales to the surface without
going soft. If all you have is a PNG or a JPG, send the largest clean version and we will tell
you honestly whether it holds at size or needs redrawing first. Include your brand colour codes
where colour accuracy matters. The sequence is always the same and never skipped: artwork
approval, then a pre-production sample or a final logo preview, then the full run.

WHAT IS NOT ON THIS PAGE, AND WHY

You will not find dimensions in centimetres, a tumbler capacity in millilitres, a brass gauge, a
weight or a runtime figure for the bulb anywhere above. That is not an oversight. This hamper is
assembled by us from separately sourced pieces, and those numbers have not been measured to a
figure we would stand behind in writing. Publishing a plausible one would be worse than
publishing none, because the specification block is the only instrument you have for judging an
object you cannot pick up. Ask us for any measurement you need before you order and we will
measure the actual piece and tell you what it says.

Returns

Hampers are not eligible for return, exchange or refund. The only exception is a hamper that arrives damaged in transit — this must be reported through the delivery partner at the time of delivery so the claim can be raised.

Please note

Brass is meant to be used. Wipe the pieces dry with a soft cloth after use, keep them out of the dishwasher, and let the tone deepen if you like it that way. The toran folds flat into a drawer after the festival, and the star bulb recharges and comes out again next year.

CUSTOMIZE IT — LOGOS, BRANDING & BULK ORDERS.

Your mark can be printed on the red keepsake box lid and on the Happy Diwali greeting card, and engraved on the brass coffee filter's etched band subject to a test sample. Corporate cards can carry your own festive message in place of ours.

Share your quantity, your delivery date and your logo file on WhatsApp and we will come back with the branding options and a confirmed dispatch date.

FAQs

Questions, answered

1Does this hamper include coffee, sweets or any food items?

No. There is no coffee, no mithai and nothing edible in the box. The dabara sets and brass filter are serving and brewing pieces for your own coffee, so nothing here goes stale.

2What is a dabara set and how is it used?

A dabara is the wide bowl and the tumbler that nests in it. Filter coffee is poured between the two from a height, which cools it and builds the froth of a good degree coffee.

3Does the star lamp need a plug, a cord or a bulb holder?

No. It is cordless and rechargeable and seats in its own small brass base, so it lights wherever you put it with nothing plugged in and nothing extra to buy.

4Will the brass darken over time, and how do I clean it?

Yes, and that is genuine brass behaving as brass, not a defect. Wipe the pieces dry after use, keep them out of the dishwasher, and polish them back to bright whenever you prefer.

5Can we order this in bulk with our company logo?

Yes. Your logo goes on the red box lid and the greeting card, and can be engraved on the filter etched band subject to a test sample. Send your quantity and logo file on WhatsApp.

6Can I add my own message to the Diwali card?

Yes. A Happy Diwali card carrying your own message ships inside the box. Send us the wording with your order and we will print it on the card.

7How early should we place a Diwali order?

As early as you can. Diwali does not move and festive production fills up, so share your quantity and delivery date and we confirm dispatch in writing before anything is made.