Volume One · DIY Series · Ecloto Designs
A handmade workshop of fifteen toys that turn ordinary moments into the best part of your cat's day.
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Fifteen toys
Three parts, fifteen projects.
No special tools
Materials already in your home.
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Why this exists
You've felt it: an expensive crinkle ball ignored on the rug; a motorised mouse abandoned mid-purr; a fishing pole that lived in the drawer. The cat, meanwhile, is delighted by a hair-tie or a paper bag.
That gap — between what we buy and what they choose — is the whole reason this book exists. Cats are obligate hunters with very specific preferences: small, fast, unpredictable, faintly textured, smelling of something familiar. Almost nothing on a shelf is designed for those instincts. Almost everything you can make at home is.
This is a workshop, not a catalogue. Fifteen quiet evenings, fifteen toys, a few household scraps. The kind of objects your cat keeps coming back to, long after the new-toy smell wears off.
A peek inside
Every project in the workshop, photographed from above. The three with a 'free preview' badge are yours to read in full — drop your email and we'll open them right now.
For the predator at heart.
No. 01Feather Wand
The single most effective toy you will ever make. Bar none.
No. 02Sock Mouse
For you / not for you
About the studio
Ecloto Designs is a small studio making thoughtful objects for the people and animals who share a home. We work slowly. We write the way we'd talk over a kitchen table.
The Curious Cat is our first volume — fifteen toys to start, with a companion of twelve more for cats who want more puzzles, more play, more excuses to stay curious.
Frequently asked
An honest preview
We're a brand-new book with no reviewers yet, and we haven't road-tested the toys on a colony of cats either. So instead of inventing quotes, here's the kind of evening the book is designed to give you.
A quiet half hour, a needle, a feather, a small thing made with your hands — the kind of evening the book is designed for.
Your first evening with the book
A workshop you can return to: fifteen short projects, one at a time, on the evenings you feel like sitting down with something to make.
On a slow afternoon
Project notes worth reading on their own — the way one reads a thoughtful cookbook on a Sunday, even on the recipes you're not cooking.
Even on the toys you skip
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Ecloto Designs · est. 2024
The Curious Cat — Volume One
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Introductory price — early-reader discount
Made from a single lonely sock. Smells of you. Perfect.
No. 03Cardboard Chaser
A toilet paper roll, transformed. Five minutes, infinite chase.
Free previewNo. 04Fabric Ball Dart
The lightest, fastest, most underrated toy in the book.
No. 05Long-Tailed Sock Prey
The sock mouse, evolved. For cats who like to wrestle their toys.
For the thinking cat.
No. 06Egg-Carton Forager
Your cat's first puzzle, and the one most cats love best.
Free previewNo. 07Toilet Roll Treat Tower
A stack of toilet rolls, rebuilt as your cat's slowest meal.
No. 08Fishing Puzzle
Holes in a box. A toy down inside. Hours of contented mischief.
No. 09Cat Snuffle Mat
Borrowed from dog enrichment, perfected for cats.
No. 10Cardboard Box Maze
An afternoon project that will be loved for months.
For the quiet hours.
No. 11Catnip Pillow
A small, sweet-smelling square. The most basic of comforts.
No. 12Crinkle Pouch
A small thing that sounds like everything cats love.
Free previewNo. 13Memory Mouse
A comfort toy stuffed with your scent, for the anxious or recently rehomed cat.
No. 14Beanbag Fish
Weighted, satisfying to wrestle, a back-leg kicker's dream.
No. 15Self-Warming Sleeper
Not a toy — a gift. The book ends here, with rest.
No account, no payment.
What's inside
Hunters, Puzzlers, Dreamers — a complete arc through your cat's day, from the morning ambush to the evening curl-up.
Five toys for the predator at heart — wands, mice, chasers.
Feather Wand
The single most effective toy you will ever make. Bar none.
Sock Mouse
Made from a single lonely sock. Smells of you. Perfect.
Cardboard Chaser
A toilet paper roll, transformed. Five minutes, infinite chase.
Fabric Ball Dart
The lightest, fastest, most underrated toy in the book.
Long-Tailed Sock Prey
The sock mouse, evolved. For cats who like to wrestle their toys.
Five toys for the thinking cat — foraging, slow rewards.
Egg-Carton Forager
Your cat's first puzzle, and the one most cats love best.
Toilet Roll Treat Tower
A stack of toilet rolls, rebuilt as your cat's slowest meal.
Fishing Puzzle
Holes in a box. A toy down inside. Hours of contented mischief.
Cat Snuffle Mat
Borrowed from dog enrichment, perfected for cats.
Cardboard Box Maze
An afternoon project that will be loved for months.
Five toys for the quiet hours — pillows, pouches, warmth.
Catnip Pillow
A small, sweet-smelling square. The most basic of comforts.
Crinkle Pouch
A small thing that sounds like everything cats love.
Memory Mouse
A comfort toy stuffed with your scent, for the anxious or recently rehomed cat.
Beanbag Fish
Weighted, satisfying to wrestle, a back-leg kicker's dream.
Self-Warming Sleeper
Not a toy — a gift. The book ends here, with rest.
