Torsion
Flutes wound into a slow spiral the eye keeps following.
$56
A tabletop vessel whose flutes do not run straight — they twist, each ridge winding a quarter-turn from base to rim so the surface reads as a slow torque frozen in plastic. Run a thumb up a flute and you feel it pull sideways; the valleys between catch a moving band of shadow as you turn the pot. The deep channels stiffen thin walls without added mass and shed water down their grooves, while the wide inner cup gives a taproot room to drop. A drilled drainage hole and a matched press-fit saucer keep the surface beneath dry.
- Dimensions
- H 6" × Ø 5.5" — drilled drainage hole with matched press-fit saucer included
- Plant pairing
- Aloe vera — its stiff upright rosette plays against the spiraling flutes, and the deep cup gives the taproot the dry, free-draining root room it wants.
- Materials
- Matte PLA, Recycled PETG, Wood-Fill PLA
Torsion started as a question: what does a flute do when you refuse to let it stay vertical? We took a ring of channels and rotated each layer a fraction as it printed, so the layer lines themselves spiral and the geometry tells you exactly how it was made. The twist is structural, not decorative — wound flutes resist bending in every direction at once.