05/14/2026
Today we’re launching something new: Ume, our first Studio Edition glaze. I want to tell you where it came from.
There is a specific color that only exists for a few weeks a year. Right after a long winter, when the first leaves come out on trees that spent months dormant. Too yellow to be green, too green to be yellow. It doesn’t last. Within a few weeks it deepens, commits to being one thing, and the moment is gone until next year.
I have wanted that color in our porcelain for as long as we’ve been making tableware. Some batches pulled too lime, some too lemon. What we landed on is a luminous pale chartreuse that sits right at the edge of yellow — the color of fresh-picked nanko-ume just before they ripen.
Ume is the Japanese plum, and it’s an ingredient serious cooks know well. Umeboshi. Ume kosho. Ume vinegar. The reference felt right on every level. Not just visually. Contextually. Seasonally.
Studio Edition glazes are colors we develop that belong to a specific moment. Limited, one season only. Ume is available through the end of July.
Shop via link in bio. Made to order, ships in 3 to 4 weeks.