Terrane Glass
Hand-blown glassware from Spruce Pine, North Carolina - founded by Colin O'Reilly, whose Oklahoma barware won Garden & Gun's 2016 Made in the South Overall Winner.
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Why Southern Crafted
Makers museums collect.
Work by some of our makers is held in places like the Smithsonian.
Made to last generations
Small-batch and handmade, for everyday use and then for handing down.
Made in the South
100% of the artisans we carry work here in the South.
Free shipping over $300
Easy exchanges, too. Fragile pieces like glass and art ship at cost.
No two are identical
A machine-pressed glass comes out of a mold. That’s why every one is the same, and why you can feel the seam if you run a thumb up the side. Terrane’s are gathered from the furnace on a pipe, blown, shaped with hand tools, and then cooled slowly over hours so the glass doesn’t crack.
What comes out has weight to it, and a few faint marks where the tools were. Hold two up to the light and they won’t quite match.
Why glassmakers moved to these mountains
The quartz under this corner of North Carolina is unusually pure, and glassmakers have been coming here for decades to be near it. The town mixes and ships raw glass batch to studio artists across the country.
Terrane is blown here, from material that didn’t have to travel far to become a glass.
Heft without heaviness
Terrane’s Oklahoma barware won the Home category at Garden & Gun’s Made in the South Awards in 2016. The magazine described “heft without heaviness, clarity save for a few carefully placed tool marks, and a meticulous balance.”
The heft is the first thing you notice. It’s heavier than it looks like it should be, which is most of why it feels like something you’d keep rather than replace.
Keikichi Littleton
Terrane Glass was founded in 2016 by glassblower Colin O'Reilly, who had moved his family to Spruce Pine, North Carolina, where the landscape shaped the work. That first year his Oklahoma barware won Garden & Gun's Made in the South Awards outright, taking both the Home category and the overall prize. The designs Terrane makes today are still his.
When O'Reilly was ready to move on, the line went to Keikichi and Tadayoshi Littleton, who grew up in the glass trade a few miles away. Their father runs Spruce Pine Batch Company, which has supplied raw glass batch to American studio artists for decades. Their grandfather, Harvey Littleton, is the man credited with taking glassblowing out of the factory and into independent studios in the 1960s - the founder of the American studio glass movement. Their great-grandfather did glass research at Corning. They are the fourth generation.
They bought a line they were unusually well placed to carry: clean, architectural barware, hand-blown in small batches, heavy in the hand and clear enough that the bourbon is the thing you look at. They kept the forms. Terrane's Oklahoma and No. 12 collections are made the way O'Reilly made them.
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