Hammer Ornament Ten very different presence

very different presence

The frosting is a painted glaze applied in a single unbroken pass

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

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

Chive now crafts ornaments that the Royal Ontario Museum keeps in permanent inventory

Hammer Ornament Ten very different presenceThe 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