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Free Shopify theme · Books & Education · Editorial
A night blue storefront for a desert workshop in Socorro, New Mexico that builds one brass and walnut tellurion for teaching the seasons.
Published October 29, 2026. Built from a brief, no account needed to download.
Gnomon & Lathe is a converted carport workshop in Socorro, New Mexico, run by Ines Calderón, who taught eighth grade earth science for nineteen years and kept watching students nod at a diagram of the seasons without believing it. She cuts the gears on a bench lathe from brass bar, turns the base from local walnut, and sets the earth on its true 23.4 degree tilt so a child can crank the year around a brass sun and see the light change sides.
A small maker selling one teaching object to teachers, homeschooling parents and grandparents who want something better than a poster: tellurions, globes, planispheres, microscope kits, anatomy models. These buyers are often spending their own money, not a school budget, so the page opens on the model sitting on a walnut table in afternoon light, comes in close on the brass gears so the price makes sense, then shows hands cutting a gear on the lathe. The Editorial layout uses large serif headings and a cream page, which reads like a good textbook rather than a toy shop.
The style is Editorial on its third variant. The text is near black on cream, and the accent is a night sky blue that matches the earth on the model, so the buy button carries the colour of the thing being taught. The brand facts lead with the single model, because teachers want to know exactly what it demonstrates before anything else, then the lathe cut brass, because it explains why it costs more than a plastic kit, then the true axial tilt, because getting the tilt wrong is the mistake that makes cheap models useless for the seasons lesson.
