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Tray Kit: Moroccan zellige, GreensTray KitPre-order · Ships from 1 December

Tray Kit

Transform your IKEA breakfast tray

Your colours and your pattern, on a tray you’ll use every morning.

ÖSTBIT is a simple bamboo tray. This kit fills it edge to edge with handmade tiles, painted in your colours and fixed into a pattern that looks like it came from a riad in Fez. Once varnished it wipes clean, ready for breakfast in bed or drinks on the balcony.

Pattern: Moroccan zellige

Stars and crosses from edge to edge, in the style of Moroccan zellige. Slower, and very satisfying.

Colours

More patterns are on the way.

£69

Pre-orders ship from 1 December, in time for Christmas.

You’ll also need

IKEA ÖSTBIT 25 × 33 cm

The kit fits the IKEA ÖSTBIT bamboo tray. Pick one up in store or online.

View on IKEA ↗Article no. 304.529.91

Everything you need

IKEA ÖSTBITSold separately by IKEA

In the kit

  • Handmade tiles for your chosen pattern
  • Paints in your palette, plus white, and brushes
  • Tile glue
  • Varnish to seal and protect
  • Illustrated step-by-step guide
Process video coming soon

How it works

  1. 1

    Choose your pattern

    Pick a pattern from the guide, or design your own.

  2. 2

    Paint your tiles

    Mix the paints and give every tile its colour.

  3. 3

    Assemble and finish

    Fix the tiles in place, varnish, and leave it overnight.

Where the patterns come from

These patterns belong to Islamic geometric art, a tradition that runs through more than a thousand years of buildings from Baghdad and Cairo to Fez, Granada and Seville. Its craftspeople built whole walls from a small set of shapes, cut and fitted by hand.

In Spain, the best-known examples are in the Alhambra, the palace the Nasrid dynasty built in Granada in the 13th and 14th centuries. In Morocco, zellige makers still cut tiles by hand today.

TileKit doesn’t copy those walls, and it isn’t zellige. We study the original patterns, redraw them as tiles anyone can paint and fit, and make every tile by hand in our Barcelona studio. In our workshops we teach where each pattern comes from.

The tray’s star pattern is drawn from Moroccan zellige. Real zellige is cut from glazed, kiln-fired clay by trained craftspeople; ours is a painted, beginner-friendly homage to it.

If the patterns get under your skin, go and see the real thing.

Questions

Is the furniture included?

No. Each kit is designed for a specific IKEA product, which you buy separately from IKEA.

When will it arrive?

Pre-orders ship from 1 December, in time for Christmas. We’ll email you as soon as yours is on its way.

Do I need any experience?

None. The shapes are designed to fit together, so the pattern does the work.

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