Aruna Super Golden Button — 2026 Crop Reservation
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Ships from Waynesboro, Virginia.
Aruna — a pale golden button with a blush of red, named for the old word for the first light of dawn. On the work it warms the wood like early sun: body and glow, without the depth of the dark grades.
A novel button lac, made only for us. The seedlac is the 2026 Jeth harvest off the kusum tree — the same revered species behind the winter Kusmi grades — carrying a redder cast where Kusmi runs yellow. Sticklac is hand-selected for the finest source material, then ground, washed, and filtered again and again for purity. A rare material, made the old way.
Most commercial shellac sold today is dewaxed flake — a 20th-century industrial product. Button lac is the older form, the one classical finishing texts describe. The wax is part of the structure, not an impurity to be removed. The buttons are produced by hand in small operations, weighed and packed one bag at a time.
How the reservation works
You are reserving your share of one confirmed batch, shipped in a single lot when it lands.
- Reserve now, paid in full. Payment is taken at reservation; reserving is what holds your allocation.
- The batch is finite. The allocation is capped and we do not oversell it. When the reservation fills, it closes.
- Price locked at today's number.
- If the batch comes in short: the unfilled portion of your reservation is refunded in full, automatically — you don't have to ask.
- Change your mind? Full refund anytime before the batch ships. An email is enough.
- Expected to ship August 2026. We email every reservation holder when the batch lands.
- Ordering in-stock items too? Those ship right away — your reservation follows separately when the crop lands.
Sourced direct from a fifth-generation refining family in India who has supplied this bench since 1990. Pure, uncut, genuine.
