Neyshabur Kiln

The Neyshabur Kiln fires earthenware in a turquoise glaze the region has produced for centuries — a copper-based firouzeh that takes its name from Neyshabur itself, mined and worked here before the colour had a name anywhere else. The kiln mixes its glaze from a formula adjusted slightly with each batch to account for humidity and clay source, which is why no two pieces come out precisely the same shade. Forms are thrown on a manual wheel and left with visible tool marks rather than smoothed to a uniform finish. A single firing can take a full day, with the kiln operator adjusting temperature by eye and by the sound of the kiln rather than a digital readout. Pieces reach All The Good Things through a screened export partner working out of Neyshabur.

The Neyshabur Kiln glazes earthenware in firouzeh — the turquoise that takes its name from this region — a colour mined and fired here long before it had a name anywhere else.

Neyshabur, Iran

That a colour named after this ground should still be mixed and fired here, batch by uneven batch.