Lucia’s Painted Rims
Photo: Karen Maes / Unsplash
This is an illustrative story. Names and some details have been changed to protect the privacy of the people we work with.
Look closely at the rim of one of our trinket dishes and you’ll see a thin, hand-painted line — not quite perfect, which is exactly why it’s beautiful. That line is Lucia’s.
Decoration was the part of the craft that drew her in. She had always doodled, always loved colour, but had never imagined it could be a livelihood. With training, her instinct became a skill: she learned to load a brush, to turn a piece smoothly as she paints, to know when less is more.
“People pay for handmade because of the small imperfections,” she says, smiling. “My slightly wobbly line tells them a person was here. I like that my hand is in their home.”
