Dark Jethwa Button — 2026 Crop Reservation

Dark Jethwa button lac — the deep end of the Jethwa harvest, a shellac that adds color as it builds. Not a shelf grade: the 2026 run is confirmed and in production now, Jethwa sticklac made into buttons by hand at a small producer's works, specifically for this bench. You are reserving your share before it lands.

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.

Where the light side of the Jethwa harvest lets the wood carry the color, Dark Jethwa runs deep and rich — the grade for antique restoration, walnut and dark hardwoods, and finishes where the depth is part of the point. Because it is a genuine crop rather than a blended grade, the yield is finite. That is why we reserve it rather than stock it.

How the reservation works

You are reserving your share of one confirmed crop 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 crop 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.