Drawswords Studio

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Drawswords Studio

DRAWSWORDS is an Amsterdam-based studio for graphic design, art direction, design education, ceramics, and endless enthusiasm.

DRAWSWORDS is an Amsterdam-based studio for graphic design, art and creative direction, and endless amounts of enthusiasm.

20/09/2026

I had a lot of fun cutting and carving chunks out of this small fermentation jar, thrown in another beautiful pinkish beige stoneware clay body. The rough, irregular cuts give the otherwise simple form a more tactile, almost excavated feel.

The sunken lid doubles as a small bowl, making it perfect for serving the kimchi or whatever else you’ve been fermenting inside. I like the idea of the jar becoming part of the ritual of eating, rather than simply being a container.

For the glazing, I deliberately kept things quite restrained: a white liner glaze on the inside, with a more crystalline glaze applied to the outside as well. The contrast between the raw red clay and the subtle, shifting surface of the crystalline glaze lets the carved form remain the focus.

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Maybe I’ll bring it to Keramiekmarkt, on Saturday the 26th of September in Utrecht, NL! 😉

07/09/2026

A vase shaped through two different ways of working: the bottom carved, the top trimmed. Finished with layers of natural dark green, topped with a runny transparent white that softens and connects the colours as it moves across the surface.

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31/08/2026

Recently, I started making my own glazes. It’s a new part of the process that I’m really enjoying: testing, adjusting, layering, and seeing how small changes affect the result.

These are some tests of a satin pale green, built up in single and multiple layers on different clay bodies. I love how lively this glaze becomes, shifting from quiet and milky to deeper, softer, almost moss-like surfaces.

Some of these experiments will find their way to Utrecht’s Keramiekmarkt on Saturday, September 26. I will bring lots of small and big objects, such as vases, fermentation pots, bowls, mugs, plates, planters, rock soliflores, and much more.

Hope to see you there! 🌿

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12/07/2026

Another raku-fired vase.

The spots of warm yellow glaze catche the light like the first rays of morning, drifting through whites and soft blues. Against it, the carbon-trapped black feels deep and quiet. The crackled surface echoes weathered stone, while the gentle curves soften the form.

Raku has a way of leaving behind small surprises and how fire, smoke, and chance become part of the final piece.

22/06/2026

A carved grey stoneware vase with a simple glossy white glaze. It has something almost brutalist about it, its surface somewhere between rough concrete and weathered stone.

I keep coming back to putting roses in it. Soft against rough. Delicate against solid. Somehow, the contrast between the chunky vase and the velvety petals just works.

⌀14cm, height 22cm.
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15/06/2026

A lidded jar, trimmed and carved by hand, including carved feet. Wax resist was brushed onto the surface before layering two different glazes, allowing them to break, drip, and pool across the form.

The rough cuts and carved marks stay mostly visible beneath the glaze, giving the piece something weathered and almost geological — somewhere between a vessel and something that could have been found washed up, dug up, or grown slowly over time.

⌀10.5cm, height 20cm.
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21/05/2026

If you know me in real life, you know I’m pretty tall (193cm / 6’4”) and have big hands. Now, hand size doesn’t really matter when playing the drums — which I’ve been doing for most of my life — but when doing ceramics??? Whewww… it makes throwing small objects seriously challenging. Imagine this: me trying to open or shape something with just my pinky…
Yep.

So, it was frustratingly fun to try and make something rrrrreally small. A cute little bowl, measuring a measly 3.5cm width at the rim, 2cm at the foot, and 2.5cm in height. It’s the smallest thing I’ve ever thrown, and I’m kind of proud of it 😉

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19/05/2026

A red stoneware vase that feels less made than unearthed — as if it spent decades buried beneath earth and roots before resurfacing at an archaeological dig site.

Hand-carved and layered with multiple glazes: matte, glossy, and lava textures melting into one another like traces of time, soil, and erosion.

⌀12cm, height 23.5cm.
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11/05/2026

Another stoneware vase from a raku firing in the north of Amsterdam.
 This one was layered with multiple glazes before going into the flames, and the firing gave it everything I hoped for: vivid colour shifts, fine crackled textures, and deep carbon trapping in the unglazed parts of the clay.

The unpredictability of Raku — part control, part surprise — is exactly why I love the process so much.

⌀14cm, height 20cm.
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06/05/2026

A set of matcha bowls, made for Natalia after she brought back a rowdy kilo (!) of matcha from Japan. My intent was for the bowls to feel incredibly comfortable when cradled in her hands, hence the trimmed rings, and for the colour to contrast with the intensely green matcha itself.  For this set — and for quite a few things I’m currently making — I used ’ Lavafleck, containing basalt that forms those deep brown flecks that beautifully pop up during high firing.

I brushed the outsides with wax resist before glazing both bowls with a glossy recycle glaze that we call Midnight Espresso, and a ‘Vogelei’ (bird egg) matte glaze. It’s quite mesmerizing how the glazes interact while at the same time covering the coarse-ish texture of the clay.

⌀11.7cm, height 7cm.
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Amsterdam
1056AB

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