Craft. Ceremony. Domestic Legacy.

One household of Hellenic-themed brands, handmade in Christchurch. Each is a door into a different corner of home and craft — this is where you find the right one. 

What Theophora Is

What we actually do

Theophora doesn't sell anything itself. It's the HQ — the parent business behind roughly sixteen brands, each named for the deity or epithet whose domain it echoes, each a customer-facing door of its own. Everything we make, preserve or teach sits behind one of those doors. Our job here is to point you to the right one.

Three verbs run underneath all of it:

• Make — botanicals, beeswax, soaps, plants, bridal pieces, materials for other makers, art.

• Preserve — family recipes, half-finished heirlooms, vintage pieces given a second life.

• Teach — the myths, deities and Hellenic calendar, explained for a modern audience.

The name

Theophora comes from the Greek theophoros — "god-bearing," one who carries the divine. It's an old idea with a simple meaning for us: the sacred doesn't only live in temples. It lives in the ordinary — the meal cooked with care, the heirloom mended rather than discarded, the garden tended in step with the seasons. Theophora exists to carry that reverence back into everyday domestic life.

Behind the Brands