Art You Can Hold in a Hand.
Mori Trinkets makes fabric keychains that treat a keyring like a frame. We started small, on a phone, and we intend to stay small — by hand, in runs you can count.
Mori began the way a lot of small things do — as a quiet obsession. A love of ukiyo-e waves, of Van Gogh's restless skies, of the red-crowned crane, and a wish to carry some of it around rather than leave it on a wall. The first trinkets were made for ourselves, photographed on a windowsill and posted to Instagram. People asked where to buy them. This shop is the answer.
Every piece is a print rendered in fabric — woven or sublimation-printed so the colour sits in the cloth rather than on top of it — then bound, cut and hung from a nickel ring by hand. We make in small runs on purpose. It keeps the work careful, and it means a piece can rest or retire instead of being churned out forever.
Many of our designs draw on Japanese art and motifs — waves, koi, cranes, maple, the characters for good fortune. We approach them as students, not decorators: with attention, and with respect for where they come from. The aim is always elegance over novelty.
“We sell pieces, not products. Collections, not catalogues.”
Gallery, not market
Each trinket is shown like an object worth looking at — against the dark, with room to breathe.
Quiet by design
The prints are loud enough. Everything around them stays restrained, so the art does the talking.
Made to be carried
These aren't precious. They're meant to ride on keys and bags and live a little — and age well doing it.