Hand-blown and pressed glass · dispatched from Sydney

Glass for the table

Light has to go somewhere

Carafes, tumblers, pressed bowls and small vases. Objects that hold still and change what falls through them.

See the glass
A hand-blown carafe and two tumblers on a pale table, morning light through the glass

Morning, one carafe, two tumblers. The wall behind them does most of the work.

Blown and pressed

Two ways to make a piece of glass

Blown glass is gathered on a pipe and shaped by breath and gravity, so no two carafes hold exactly the same volume. Pressed glass is pushed into a mould, which is why the dessert bowls carry a faint seam and repeat cleanly. We use both, and we say which is which on every listing.

A gathered bubble of hot glass at the end of a blowing pipe

Soda-lime glass, gathered hot. The wall thickness settles where the glass wants it to.

Bubbles, seams, and a little wobble

The marks are how you tell a hand from a machine

A hand-blown rim is rarely dead level. Fine bubbles sit inside the wall, a pontil mark sits under the base, and the colour can pool a shade deeper where the glass ran thicker. None of that is a fault, and none of it is repeatable. If you want twelve identical tumblers, buy machine-made ones — we would rather tell you that than sell you a set you are disappointed by.

Twelve pieces

The glass

On a set table

Nothing here matches anything else

The range is built to be mixed. Pressed bowls next to blown tumblers, a borosilicate carafe beside a footed compote — different weights, different clarity, one palette. Buy one piece and it will still sit with what you already own.

A table set with mixed glass — bowls, tumblers and a small vase in late light

Six pieces from four groups, on one table, late in the day.

Flat-rate delivery

$16 anywhere in Australia. Packed double-walled and dispatched in 2–4 business days from Sydney.

Breakage and faults

If it arrives broken or faulty, send us a photo within 7 days and we replace or refund it. Not change of mind.

Variation is the norm

Capacity, height and colour depth shift piece to piece in blown glass. Yours will not match the photograph exactly.

Questions

Can these go in the dishwasher?

The pressed pieces handle a gentle cycle. The hand-blown carafes, tumblers and vases should be washed by hand in warm water — thin blown walls and a dishwasher's heat cycle do not get along, and a hairline crack from thermal shock is not covered as a fault.

Are the bubbles and the mark under the base a defect?

No. Fine bubbles form as the glass is gathered, and the mark under the base is the pontil, where the piece was held while the rim was finished. Pressed pieces carry a faint mould seam for the same reason. All three are the tell of how the object was made.

Will a set of six tumblers match?

Close, not identical. Height varies by a few millimetres and capacity by roughly 15 ml across a blown set. They read as a set on a table; measured side by side they are clearly six separate objects.

Can I pour hot liquid into them?

Only into the borosilicate pieces, which are made for thermal change. Soda-lime glass — everything blown or pressed in the range unless the listing says borosilicate — can crack when heated quickly. Room temperature and cold are what it is for.

How is it packed?

Each piece is wrapped and suspended inside a double-walled carton with corner void fill. Sets ship in one carton with dividers. We have not lost a piece in transit yet, and if we do, the photo-and-replace process above is how it is fixed.

How long does delivery take?

Dispatch is 2–4 business days. After that it is standard parcel post — usually 2–5 business days to east coast metro, longer to WA, NT and regional addresses.