The Weave vase is a ceramic vessel whose surface carries a full basket weave in relief, pressed and carved convincingly enough that people touch it to check. It dates to 2011 and the studio's metallic-glaze period, when this design peaked at twenty-three shades of silver because nobody wanted to be the one to say stop. Nobody could tell shade fourteen from shade nineteen either. The era ended; the vase outlived it, now finished in a warm brown that lets the texture carry the argument. A woven texture vase belongs where smooth ceramic disappears — open shelving, bright windows, anywhere raking light can catch the lattice and throw small shadows across it. As a basket weave vase it flatters loose, informal stems: garden roses, poppies, whatever refuses to stand up straight. Fill it or leave it standing empty; the surface holds the room either way. Shaped by hand, one over-under at a time.
