Story Of The Quill

Quill Tales

We believe in processes that preserve and enhance the natural goodness that comes with cinnamon.

Every step is refined and invested with time, effort, expertise and local talent that brings out the very best of the produce. The journey of your cinnamon quills begin here.

01.

Before peeling,

The cinnamon trunks must always be kept in moist conditions. They are ideally harvested in the early mornings before direct sunlight hits the crops. Once the cinnamon trunks are harvested, they are taken into the factory to be soaked in water.

It allows the trunks to be scraped and peeled seamlessly. Once soaked, we clip the knots to make scraping smoother than ever.

02.

The outer bark

Trunk is fully scraped off using traditional tools (soorana kokeththa). To keep intact with sustainable measures, we ensure to reuse scraped bark residue as compost fertilizer!

03.

The Scraped trunks

The Scraped trunks are then processed through the rubbing machine to extract the cinnamon peel. The pressure applied from the rubbing machine allows the cinnamon peel to be unlatched from its trunk, making it much more convenient to peel.

04.

Cinnamon peels

removed from the trunk using a traditional tool called thalana kokeththa. This step necessitates a lot of experience and skill to be performed as per superior quality standards. Along with the perfect peel (leli), small quillings (podi) are also extracted to be inserted inside the larger peels to make the quill.

05.

Signature Ceylon cinnamon

Quill is handcrafted using the air-dried cinnamon peels along with the quillings; this process is called a handiya. This step is highly technical as small quillings are filled in an overlapping manner inside the parallel larger cinnamon peels.

06.

Air-dried for a day

At this stage, meticulously crafted cinnamon quills are air-dried for a day. Following that, they will be processed using a technique called pressure curling (bada ambareema), where gentle pressure is applied, and each quill is curled to perfection.

07.

Final stretch

the curled quills are air-dried once again for 10-14 days before being taken down for bailing or cutting.