Backfill · 2022
#54 of 357Handmade Ceramic Mugs
Personal photo: a handmade ceramic mug with an uneven blue-green glaze sitting on a wooden table next to a French press, with morning light coming through a window.
The mug I drink coffee from every morning is handmade. Slightly uneven where the potter's fingers pressed into the clay, it holds heat differently than the machine-made ones in the cabinet. I want more of them. Glaze pooled thicker at the base and thinner near the rim, creating a gradient no factory could reproduce or would bother trying. The handle is a bit wider than standard, so my whole hand wraps around it rather than hooking 2 fingers through. Drinking from it is a different experience than drinking from a mug that came in a set of 4. Difference is hard to articulate but easy to feel.