Our Story
TILI Handmade Studio was born from a shared love of flowers, not just for their beauty, but for what they mean.
We believe flowers hold stories. Once used as a symbolic language, blooms conveyed messages when words could not. At TILI, we bring that language into modern ritual through handmade soap and body care.
Meet the Founders
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TorrieOriginally from Scotland, Torrie grew up surrounded by abundant gardens, wild landscapes, and a deep connection to nature. With a background in floristry and art, she pursued flowers as both a creative medium and a way to understand seasonality, form, and colour. After moving to Toronto, Torrie led the creative direction of a flower shop, designing arrangements and weddings that celebrated flowers at meaningful moments in people’s lives. In 2019, she began making soap part-time, drawn to the idea of experiencing flowers in a more tactile, everyday way. Soap became a new canvas: one that allowed nature, artistry, and ritual to intersect. |
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LucyLucy is from Canada and studied anthropology at the University of Toronto, with a focus on symbolism and meaning across cultural traditions. Her fascination with flowers began early, inspired by her grandmother, an avid gardener who passed down a personal book of floriography filled with botanical artwork and handwritten prose. Lucy later began working at a flower shop in Toronto, where she learned the craft of floristry and deepened her understanding of flowers as cultural symbols rather than decoration alone. |
Why We Started TILI Together
Torrie and Lucy met while working at the same flower shop. What began as shared workdays among stems and buckets quickly became long conversations about symbolism, seasonality, and the quiet power of flowers.
TILI was created at the intersection of their paths - floristry, anthropology, art, and ritual. With a shared desire to revive the meaning behind flowers and translate it into something tangible, intentional, and usable every day.
Soap became that medium.