When looking for wabi sabi pottery either overseas or at home the following are guidelines on what to look for: Functional rather than decorative Rough and organic feel Little to no defined design Dark, mute colors, preferably with a natural ash glaze Complexity in color and texture Naturalness and ease of use

Little has been done in Europe with ash glazes, but in Japan the ash glaze has been a predominant feature of pottery since its use was first discovered in the Nara period. The desire for a nonuniform surface that can catch, in the glaze of each pot, the irregularities of nature hails back to the Japanese love of things that are imperfect and incomp