Where did the handles come from? For 1,953 pieces the reviewed catalog showed none. Then the 1951–2000 run grew twelve: six mugs with a single rough loop (1954, 1971, 1986, 1994, 1996, 1998), two cups with an ear on each side (1992, 1993), and four two-handled amphora-form vessels (1995, 1997, 1999, 2000). Each loop is built and attached by hand, with pinch marks and join seams left showing, some pierced wide, some twisted like rope.
How are they made? By hand, on the maker’s own word: every handle in the catalog is built and joined by hand. What the photographs show is the join, thumbed seams and torn ends, and on the white pair 2068 and 2069 a sideways twist left exactly where his hand stopped.
The term records that a handle is there, as photographed. Strength, comfort, and whether a finger fits are things a photo can’t testify to, so no page claims them.
See it on real pieces
1954, 1971, 1986, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and the white twisted pair 2068 and 2069, or browse the handbuilt-handle listing.
Each piece page links to its live listing on the Shopify store.