The local-crafts wall
Mugs, knitwear, candles — grouped not by price, but by the person who made them.
A Monkey Tree is a Steveston gift emporium on Moncton Street — candles poured, ceramics thrown and jewellery set by British Columbia makers. Wander in.
Step off the Steveston boardwalk and the bell over the door does something a website rarely manages: it slows you down. Inside, nothing is here by accident. Each shelf was filled the way you'd set a table for people you like.
Mugs, knitwear, candles — grouped not by price, but by the person who made them.
There is a candle on the table that someone weighed, scented and poured by hand — and you can tell. The surface isn't machine-perfect. The label is a little proud of itself. That imperfection is the whole point of A Monkey Tree.
The jewellery was bent and set on a bench in British Columbia. The ceramics carry a thumbprint near the base. The textiles were woven on a loom that still smells of wool. When you give something from here, you give a maker's afternoon — not a barcode and a shipping label.
This concept frames the shop the way it deserves: as a short documentary about the people behind the gifts, with the goods photographed like the small works they are.
