Stillness in the Season: Introducing The Rooted Rituals Collection

A new chapter in clay, from the hands and heart of Whistle & Page

There’s a rhythm that moves through my days — one I didn’t always notice. It’s in the slip of a glaze down the curve of a cup. In the kettle’s soft boil while the wheel hums. In the way fog lifts from the Hyland Hills each morning, catching the light and holding it.

This is the place The Rooted Rituals Collection began.

Not as a range of products, but as a way of living. Of noticing. Of returning.

Over the past few months, I’ve been studying, refining, and reshaping everything I make. I’ve spent late evenings pouring over Japanese forms, pinching test pieces, layering glazes by hand, and asking questions that don’t have fast answers:

What makes something essential?

What shape holds space?

What does useful beauty actually feel like?

The answers came slowly. And as they arrived, I began to see something deeper take shape — seven rituals that reflect how I want to live and create. Seven threads that connect my studio to your home.

This is the soul of Whistle & Page: crafting work that becomes part of your daily rituals — not just for display, but for holding, for using, for remembering.

And so, with muddy hands and a full heart, I’m introducing The Rooted Rituals Collection — a seasonal body of work I’ll be developing over the coming months. A collection I hope to share with you on the first day of summer.

But as you know, pottery moves to its own rhythm. It dries how it wants. It cracks when it pleases. So we wait. And we trust. And we keep shaping.

The Dining Ritual

A setting for connection, nourishment, and presence

Inspired by the thoughtful tradition of Japanese dining — where every dish has its place and its purpose — this ritual celebrates the act of gathering.

From chuuzara (main plates) and kozara (side dishes) to mamezara, ochawan, kobachi, and yunomi, each piece is crafted to elevate the ordinary meal into something meaningful.

This isn’t about formality. It’s about reverence.

The daily pause where we nourish, notice, and return to one another — one handmade piece at a time.

The Sake Ritual

Small gestures. Seasonal celebration. Soulful reflection.

There’s something grounding about the ritual of pouring a warm drink.

The tokkuri (pourer) held between your palms. The ochoko (cup) passed between friends.

The Sake Ritual invites connection — with the season, with someone you love, with yourself. These forms are small in scale but weighted with meaning, glazed in finishes that reflect dusk, twilight, and the hush that follows a celebration.

The Matcha Ritual

Steam rising. Hands still. A return to intention.

Rooted in the practice of presence, the Matcha Ritual is anchored by the chawan — a vessel crafted to hold both matcha and mindfulness.

Supporting pieces include the chasen, chashaku, and nature-inspired trays that draw the outside in.

These forms speak to breath, to rhythm, and to the calm that comes from turning a daily routine into a ritual.

The Artist’s Ritual

Making, musing, experimenting. A creative unfolding.

This ritual is for the ones who get paint on their sleeves and clay in their hair.

For those who create not just to produce, but to process.

It features lidded yunomi (to protect your tea from wandering paintbrushes), gumnut and cloud-shaped paint palettes, brush rests shaped like tiny houses, and carved roller stamps.

There’s also furoshiki in soft sage and stone, ready to wrap your tools or your treasures.

Because creativity is its own kind of ceremony — and it deserves beautiful, thoughtful tools.

The Deep Thinker’s Ritual

Tea. Words. Flame. The rhythm of thought and pause.

For the readers, the writers, the journal scribblers. For those who let books fall open beside steaming mugs.

This ritual includes guinomi cups, mini graters that double as spoon rests and strainers, thumb page holders, and house-shaped oil burners that scent the evening.

Every piece is designed to create space — not to fill it.

The Gardener’s Ritual

Rooted in earth. Always becoming.

This ritual is a love song to the patient growers.

You’ll find ikebana bowls, bonsai planters, bud vases, and watering vessels that double as centrepieces.

Each piece is made to echo natural forms — glazed in moss, mist, bloom, and soil.

Because to tend the garden is to tend the self.

The Cook’s Ritual

Flavour. Function. Everyday beauty.

The kitchen is where stories are stirred and passed down.

This collection includes citrus juicers, ginger graters, pourers, canisters, platters, pestles, and serving spoons — all designed with utility and warmth in mind.

These aren’t decorative pieces. They’re deeply usable. Built for messy benches and second helpings and slow Sunday mornings.

The Glazes: A Seasonal Language of Colour

Each piece in the Rooted Rituals Collection will be offered in one of nine signature glazes — a palette that echoes both the seasons of the land and the seasons of life.

Petrichor — the scent of rain on dry earth; mossy green-blue

Midori Haze — early spring sage with misty white

Sandbar — where river meets clay; creamy blue-brown

Low Mist Rising — the gentler breath of Sandbar; fog in the valley

Sun Shower — golden beige freckled with black; sunlight through soil

Golden Meadow — dry grass and warmth at summer’s edge

Dusky Sakura — blush pink and soft cream; blossom falling

Midnight Meteor Shower — navy and starlight; dreams that linger

Moonlit Cloud — soft white with depth; the sky just before sleep

Each glaze was tested, tweaked, and chosen not just for aesthetic, but for emotion.

They’re stories in colour — designed to harmonise across all the rituals, while allowing each piece its own voice.

The Season Ahead: Why This Collection Matters

This isn’t just a launch. It’s a turning point.

After months of exploration, I’ve landed in a place that feels deeply true — to the rhythms of my own life, to the philosophy that guides Whistle & Page, and to the kind of pottery I most want to make: rooted, thoughtful, seasonal, usable.

Over the next four months, I’ll be shaping, refining, and preparing these pieces in my farmhouse studio. Slowly. Gently. With the kind of patience clay demands.

My hope is to release The Rooted Rituals Collection on the first day of summer.

But I’ll let the kiln decide. It always does.

To those of you who’ve stayed close during this creative shift — thank you.

I can’t wait to share these pieces with you.

They were made for your hands. And your life.

Until next time,
Nawsheen, your friendly homebody artist from Murrumbateman.