Seasonal Glass

Small pieces, made the hard way

The seasonal vessels are the smallest things we make and, gram for gram, easily the most work.

A pumpkin-shaped glass jar is ribbed by hand while the glass is still moving: a tool pressed against the turning body, once for each rib, timed so the ribs land evenly. Get the timing wrong and the piece goes back in the furnace. There is no mould to fall back on and no way to fake it.

Which is why the seasonal runs are small, and why they sell out. We would rather be out of stock in November than ship a season’s worth of mediocre pumpkins.

What appears when

Roughly: pumpkins and warm ambers for autumn and Halloween, clear and frosted pieces through Christmas, hearts around February, and paler, lighter forms in spring.

We are deliberately not printing dates here, because seasonal runs move around with the production calendar and a wrong date is worse than no date. The listings on this site show what is live right now:

• In stock means exactly that.
• Coming soon means a production slot is confirmed.
• Out of stock usually means the run has finished for the year. The shape tends to come back next season — the colour rarely does.

If you want to know when something specific returns, email us and ask. We will give you a real answer or tell you we do not know yet.

They work after the season too

The pieces are sized so they do not scream “decoration” once the season passes. A pumpkin jar holds sugar perfectly well in March, and the heart vessels spend most of the year as salt cellars in our own kitchens.

That is on purpose. Seasonal glass that has to be boxed away for eleven months is not worth blowing by hand.