Protection | Hand-Painted Wooden Gift Box, Original Art
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Description
No. 1 · Protection. An original encaustic painting on the lid of a solid wooden gift box with a brass clasp, filled your way: two Captain's Bars or five Ballast Bars. Signed and numbered by the artist, No. 1 of the Fall 2026 Edition of 18. This painting is one of a kind; there will never be another.
Two figures stand close together at the lower right. Above them, a great bird spreads its wings wide, and all three are held high aloft, the land far below. The first lid of the edition, painted for a beloved friend and the shelter a friendship like hers gives. Who keeps watch over you?
What's inside
Choose your fill. Two Captain's Bars, each hand-Brailled by Dolton, rest in the deep end of the box. Five Ballast Bars sit with the box turned over, held in close. Either way, every bar is wrapped in our treasure-map tissue.
Choose your scents below, or leave them on Captain's Choice and we'll choose for you. Want your Ballast Bars Brailled? Tick the Braille box in your cart and Dolton will label every bar. Choose the two Captain's Bars and a soap saver sails with them, our gift to you. When the soap is gone, the box stays.
Sensitive skin, or no scent at all? Any box can be filled with our Unscented & Pure bars, Syrena and Milk and Honey. Each travels wrapped in unbleached waxed parchment and sealed, so no scent reaches it, even riding beside a scented bar.
The artist
Painted by Danita Cole, co-founder of Blind Pirate Trading Co. and a member of the Ocean Artists Society since 2010. Five generations at sea. One uncompromising standard.
Details
- Original encaustic painting on the lid, signed and numbered
- Solid wooden box with brass clasp, 8 × 4 × 2 in
- Your choice of two Captain's Bars (5–6 oz each, Braille-labeled by hand, $168) or five Ballast Bars (Braille labels on request, $225)
- One bar size per box; the scents are yours to choose
- Unscented & Pure bars available for sensitive skin
- Soap saver included with the two Captain's Bar fill
Care
Encaustic is pigment carried in beeswax, the same medium found on ancient Egyptian and Greek works thousands of years old. Its colors last, but its surface is soft: a scratch will lift the paint. Keep below 140°F and out of hot cars, and dust gently with a soft, dry cloth.
Description
No. 1 · Protection. An original encaustic painting on the lid of a solid wooden gift box with a brass clasp, filled your way: two Captain's Bars or five Ballast Bars. Signed and numbered by the artist, No. 1 of the Fall 2026 Edition of 18. This painting is one of a kind; there will never be another.
Two figures stand close together at the lower right. Above them, a great bird spreads its wings wide, and all three are held high aloft, the land far below. The first lid of the edition, painted for a beloved friend and the shelter a friendship like hers gives. Who keeps watch over you?
What's inside
Choose your fill. Two Captain's Bars, each hand-Brailled by Dolton, rest in the deep end of the box. Five Ballast Bars sit with the box turned over, held in close. Either way, every bar is wrapped in our treasure-map tissue.
Choose your scents below, or leave them on Captain's Choice and we'll choose for you. Want your Ballast Bars Brailled? Tick the Braille box in your cart and Dolton will label every bar. Choose the two Captain's Bars and a soap saver sails with them, our gift to you. When the soap is gone, the box stays.
Sensitive skin, or no scent at all? Any box can be filled with our Unscented & Pure bars, Syrena and Milk and Honey. Each travels wrapped in unbleached waxed parchment and sealed, so no scent reaches it, even riding beside a scented bar.
The artist
Painted by Danita Cole, co-founder of Blind Pirate Trading Co. and a member of the Ocean Artists Society since 2010. Five generations at sea. One uncompromising standard.
Details
- Original encaustic painting on the lid, signed and numbered
- Solid wooden box with brass clasp, 8 × 4 × 2 in
- Your choice of two Captain's Bars (5–6 oz each, Braille-labeled by hand, $168) or five Ballast Bars (Braille labels on request, $225)
- One bar size per box; the scents are yours to choose
- Unscented & Pure bars available for sensitive skin
- Soap saver included with the two Captain's Bar fill
Care
Encaustic is pigment carried in beeswax, the same medium found on ancient Egyptian and Greek works thousands of years old. Its colors last, but its surface is soft: a scratch will lift the paint. Keep below 140°F and out of hot cars, and dust gently with a soft, dry cloth.
Burned into Being
Every lid in this edition is encaustic: pigment carried in molten beeswax, laid down with a fifty-year-old iron and a torch. The wax sets almost the moment it lands. There is no going back over it. What happens, happens once.
I have painted this way since 1992. Long before there was soap, there was wax. My first sale came at a fete on Man O' War Cay, a piece painted on red plexiglass I found washed up on Guana Cay. A young boy stood in front of it for twenty minutes. His mother came back an hour later and bought it, and that money put the fuel back in our tanks. I still wonder if he has it. I think he does.
I name each piece for what I see in it, and I have learned I am never the only one looking. Faces and figures surface in the wax that I did not set out to paint. Every box carries the same question: what do you see?
We painted these boxes because a gift should outlast what's inside it. The soap gets used. The box stays, signed and numbered, an original that holds whatever you keep in it next.
— Danita Cole
