Tenmoku tea bowls and hand-knotted prayer beads. Fired twice in a kiln town; knotted once, bead by bead, in the studio next door.
20 pieces: tea wares and hand-knotted strands, each photographed individually.
Tea bowl · 4 options
Tea bowl
Tea bowl
Tea bowl · 4 options
Mala
Mala · 5 options
Mala · 3 options
Mala
Bracelet · 6 options
Tea bowl · 2 options
Tea bowl · 6 options
Bracelet · 3 options
We fire in a gas kiln in Jianyang, the town where tenmoku has been made for nine hundred years. The beads are knotted in the same room while the kiln cools — a slower, quieter way to wait.
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