Hammer Ornament Ten The difficulty at this size

The difficulty at this size is that every tolerance that would pass unnoticed on a six-inch piece becomes the whole object here

Purslane is not a flower most people expect to find in a ceramic wall collection

and they spent three weeks getting the running order exactly right and have never entirely stopped thinking about how the whole thing turned out

width and height

Our friends now enter the living room with a mix of awe and confusion

Hammer Ornament Ten The difficulty at this sizeThe best carpenter gifts acknowledge that the craft is ancient and the satisfaction of a clean strike has not changed in two million years, and Chive's Hammer Ornament makes that acknowledgment in hand blown glass. Head and handle form from separate pulls of molten glass, joined at the neck with the kind of precision a carpenter would approve of, which is exactly the standard this ornament is trying to meet. At roughly four inches long and under three