Carolina1

About

[Carolina], maker

I started throwing in [2015] after a trip to [South Korea] where I spent a week watching potters in [Icheon] work in the goryeo style. I came home and couldn't stop thinking about the moon vase form — that full, quiet belly — and about what it would look like in pink. The sprinkles came later, from a habit of flicking leftover glaze at test tiles. Now they're the whole point. Every vase on this site I made myself, in a [one-person studio in Asheville, NC].

By the numbers

[9] yrs

Years throwing

Self-taught; first kiln fired in [2015].

[30–50]

Vases fired each month

Small batches on purpose — glaze consistency is harder to keep in high volume.

[2] glazes

Glaze combinations

One pink base, one sprinkle glaze, adjusted by density and dot size per piece.

“I'm trying to make something that looks Korean in its bones but is clearly made now, by one person, in North Carolina.”
— [Carolina, maker]

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