The Permanent Collection

My classic pouch vases in eight refined colors. Handcrafted, made to order, and designed to complement any home with simple, lasting beauty.

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🗒️ Sketchbook Notes 🗒️

How it started…

I started making these pouches in college for a lighting assignment. Around the same time, I was experimenting with ceramic fabric and working up to my undergraduate exhibition, so I think the fabric excitement bled over into my glass work and never left.

The Inspiration

I love working with fabric as an inspiration, it is definitely a continued obsession of mine. I love drawing and painting fabric, I love making clay or glass look like fabric. Fabric brings a narrative movement to any piece to me and the obsession started in high school so I don’t know if I’ll ever get bored of it.

How they are made

I start out by adding a layer of bar color and gathering a few layers of glass from the furnace. I blow out the bubble until I have a large round form. I will overheat the piece until it begins to collapse and is very melty, and then immediately rest it on a hot plate to flatten the bottom and create the fabric folds. Then my partner will punty the piece and flip it over so I can stretch out the top of the piece and end up with the finished pouch vases that you see now.

Final Thoughts

I love these pouches, they are so fun to make, and because of the process, each one is unique with its own fold structure and movement. I think they have become a more abstract and elegant representation of fabric over time.Â