Silk & Steel

Est. for the deliberate

Instruments,
not novelties.

Leather that outlasts the relationship it was bought for. Steel that holds a lock. Nothing here is stocked because it sells — it is stocked because it survives being used.

Packaging
Unbranded. Nothing on the label refers to the shop.
Payment
Bitcoin only. No card statement, no processor record.
Shipping
Free over $250

The collection

Everything
we stock.

Priced in US dollars and settled in Bitcoin at checkout. Drawings stand in where a piece has not been photographed yet.

The house

What we will,
and will not, sell.

Four rules. They are the reason the list is shorter than it could be.

  1. 01

    Materials, or nothing

    Vegetable-tanned leather, 316L stainless, borosilicate glass and platinum-cure silicone. Nothing porous, nothing plated over mystery metal, nothing that degrades against lubricant. If a piece cannot be cleaned properly it does not get listed.

  2. 02

    Sized honestly

    Every measurement on this site is the real one. Training kits step up in genuinely small increments, because rushing them is how people get hurt. Where a piece is not a beginner's piece the description says so instead of selling you up.

  3. 03

    Hardware you can hang from

    Rings are welded, not bent and butted. Buckles are rollers. Where a piece is rated for supported weight-bearing use it says so in plain words; where it is not, it is not sold as though it were.

  4. 04

    Aftercare is part of it

    Cleaner, conditioner and balm are stocked at cost-adjacent prices because a collar looked after lasts decades and one that is not lasts a season. The least glamorous shelf here is the one that matters most.

Payment

Why Bitcoin,
and only Bitcoin.

No card statement. No processor sitting on a record of what you bought. Nothing is ever taken automatically — you send the payment yourself.

i

You get a payment invoice

At checkout the shop draws up a payment invoice: the shop's receiving address, an exact amount, and a short order reference.

ii

The amount identifies the order

The address is the same for every order. What makes yours findable is the exact figure — a few extra satoshis, unique to your reference. Send a rounded number and it will take longer to match.

iii

A plain box arrives

Dispatch follows the first confirmation. No branding, no product names on the label, no documentation identifying the contents. The sender name is a neutral trading name.

Checkout

Where it is going.

Delivery details are used once, for the dispatch label. They are not stored on this site.

Delivery

Nothing is charged automatically. You send the payment yourself.