Toby Pot Burlap Small

The Toby Pot Burlap Small is 18cm square and 14cm high, a ceramic vessel with a hessian-textured surface in soft white. It is sized for a small pre-potted plant. No assembly is needed.

A ceramic finish that imitates woven hessian is doing something a real basket cannot: it gives the texture of a natural fibre with none of the moisture problems. A woven pot holding a plant eventually stains and weakens where the water sits; a glazed ceramic textured to look like one does not.

The small size in this range is best understood as the third piece rather than the first. On its own it is a modest object; alongside the medium and large in the same finish it completes a stepped group, and that grouping is what the range is designed around.

Because it is intended for pre-potted plants, treat it as a cover rather than a planter. That means the nursery pot inside can be lifted out to water, which is the practical answer to a vessel with no drainage.