Our Story
We make the tools that begin a ritual - then we get out of the way of the bread.
How it started
A grandmother's starter, kept alive for years, handed to the next set of hands with nothing but a nod. No recipe card, no instructions — just the quiet expectation that you'd keep it going.
Lillinello grew out of that gesture. We wanted to box up the whole feeling — the living culture, the honest tools, the unhurried patience — so that anyone could give the beginning of a ritual, not just a thing.
What we believe in
Lovingly, packaged and finished by hand in small batches - never mass-produced.
Rattan, cotton, bamboo, teak and glass - nothing synthetic, nothing unkind.
Every kit is boxed to be handed over - the gift is the beginning.
The Maker
Our bannetons are coiled from Grade-A Indonesian rattan and left to keep their natural grain. The whisks are turned from teak, the scrapers cut from bamboo, the blades set by hand.
Each piece is stamped Lilli Nello before it's nestled into the Sicilian-tile box — the same bold-and-amber tilework you'd find underfoot in a Florentine kitchen.
Our Story →“We never set out to sell baskets. We set out to pass something on - the patience, the smell of flour, the loaf you didn't think you could make.”
Lilli Nello, founders
Ready to give
Made for giving
Arrives beautifully packaged and ready to hand over. The kind of present that's still in the kitchen years later.
For the occasions that matter