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Ruffle Bud Vase No. 2 of 5 | Soda Fired
A little vessel with a lot of personality. Each bud vase is thrown on the wheel by hand, and while the clay is still soft, I work my way around the rim, pressing it in and out with my fingers one wave at a time. No two ever ripple quite the same way.
The ruffles aren’t just for looks. Every little dip in the rim gives a stem somewhere to rest, so even a single flower stays standing instead of flopping to one side. And once it’s in, the ruffle sits around the base of the bloom like a soft, flowy skirt.
This one is from my Soda Fired Fall Collection, and the outside isn’t glazed at all. During the firing, soda ash is sprayed into the hot kiln, turns into vapor, and becomes glaze wherever it lands on the clay. The golden bronze you see is just the brown stoneware and the soda reacting to each other. Flip it over and you’ll find little circles on the bottom from the wadding it sat on in the kiln, where the raw clay stayed bare.
On this one, I dripped and drizzled a deep cobalt blue down and across the body, and it crisscrosses its way around the vase like a net. Look up close and you’ll see a soft sage halo wherever the blue thinned out and met the soda, plus little glassy pools that catch the light. Inside, that same cobalt fills every wave of the ruffle, with tiny shimmery spots that flash purple and silver when you tilt it.
At around 4.5 inches tall, it’s the perfect size for a single stem, a few sprigs of whatever is blooming, or nothing at all on a windowsill where it can just be pretty. Made to hold a small moment.
This is a one of one piece, so the one in the photos is the one you’ll get.
A little vessel with a lot of personality. Each bud vase is thrown on the wheel by hand, and while the clay is still soft, I work my way around the rim, pressing it in and out with my fingers one wave at a time. No two ever ripple quite the same way.
The ruffles aren’t just for looks. Every little dip in the rim gives a stem somewhere to rest, so even a single flower stays standing instead of flopping to one side. And once it’s in, the ruffle sits around the base of the bloom like a soft, flowy skirt.
This one is from my Soda Fired Fall Collection, and the outside isn’t glazed at all. During the firing, soda ash is sprayed into the hot kiln, turns into vapor, and becomes glaze wherever it lands on the clay. The golden bronze you see is just the brown stoneware and the soda reacting to each other. Flip it over and you’ll find little circles on the bottom from the wadding it sat on in the kiln, where the raw clay stayed bare.
On this one, I dripped and drizzled a deep cobalt blue down and across the body, and it crisscrosses its way around the vase like a net. Look up close and you’ll see a soft sage halo wherever the blue thinned out and met the soda, plus little glassy pools that catch the light. Inside, that same cobalt fills every wave of the ruffle, with tiny shimmery spots that flash purple and silver when you tilt it.
At around 4.5 inches tall, it’s the perfect size for a single stem, a few sprigs of whatever is blooming, or nothing at all on a windowsill where it can just be pretty. Made to hold a small moment.
This is a one of one piece, so the one in the photos is the one you’ll get.
