Qalutaq

qalutaq uluaq is an indigenous yup’ik black woman founded niche startup line of timelessly stunning kitchen knives and lifestyle pieces rooted in heritage, preservation of culture and the arts for the home cook, home chefs and style bon vivants kitchen and home. by merging traditional values of the uluaq with the modern global kitchen knife industry we are sharing keen performance, textiles and gems connecting us through a lifestyle of hospitality, sharing, and love rooted in cultural identity. qalutaq uluaq is a woman’s knife of sleek ergonomic design, power and strength. she dances back and forth in our hands filled with visceral beauty as a storied heirloom of timeless precision and keen performance. universally used in indigenous inuit cultures of the arctic since time immemorial for skin sewing, cutting hair, filleting fish, slicing freshly made bread, cutting meat, chopping dandelion leaves and cutting through bone. an uluaq is an artisanal tool traditionally made from a curved