Tap a porcelain plate with a spoon and it rings like a bell. That sound tells you everything about particle alignment, vitrification, and why porcelain is fundamentally stronger than stoneware. Here's the material science, simplified.

Every glaze in our collection has surface qualities that product photography can't capture — texture, depth, how it catches light at different angles, and a soft, buttery hand feel. Here's what you're missing when you shop online.

Are your Myrth pieces dishwasher safe? Oven safe? What's actually causing those grey marks on your plates — and how do you get rid of them? In this installment of The Durability Project, we answer every practical care question we get, plus a little materials science explaining why porcelain and silverware behave the way they do together.

We get a version of the same question almost every week: Is your dinnerware safe? Will it chip? What's actually in the glaze?

Fair questions. And the fact that people have to ask them says something about the state of the dinnerware industry. Most brands don't talk about what's in their products — not because they're hiding something, necessarily, but because it's complicated, and complicated doesn't sell. A pretty lifestyle photo does.

We think you deserve better than that. We're ceramics makers — we formulate our own clay and glazes from scratch in our East Providence, Rhode Island studio — so we can actually answer these questions with specifics, not marketing language.

Here's what we think everyone should know before buying dinnerware they plan to eat off of every day.

The best wedding registries aren't built from templates. They're built from the life you're actually planning to live together.

We've spent the last ten years helping couples create dinnerware collections that feel personal, not prescribed. Not matching sets pulled from a catalog, but thoughtfully assembled pieces that mix colors, shapes, and uses in ways that make sense for your table, your cooking style, your home.

Here's what we've learned about building a registry that will actually serve you—not just look good on a spreadsheet.

Everything we make starts and finishes in our East Providence, Rhode Island studio. There's no overseas production, no contract manufacturing, no warehouse full of someone else's work with our name on it. Every plate, bowl, cup, and vase is made by our hands — from raw porcelain clay to finished, glazed piece — right here in Rhode Island.

For the next several months, we're documenting exactly what our porcelain goes through—both in our own kitchen and in the restaurants that depend on it. Not the catastrophic breaks (though we'll talk about those too), but the daily, relentless wear that separates dinnerware that lasts from dinnerware that doesn't.

Myrthlings, this year marked a decade since we founded Myrth, and it's been one of transformation. From new equipment to new glazes, from expanding partnerships to celebrating alongside Martha Stewart, 2025 reminded us why we left corporate design to build something with our hands.

For a small ceramics studio like ours, just the two of us working in Rhode Island, it felt surreal to stand face-to-face with the woman who literally wrote the book on entertaining. And not just any book: Entertaining, her 1982 debut that launched an empire and changed how Americans think about gathering around the table.

One of the joys of the Myrth collection is the freedom to create a dinnerware set that's uniquely yours. Our new color palette was designed with an even balance of neutral, warm, and cool tones so it’s easy to mix and match our glazes harmoniously. You can create a set that’s truly tailored to your style and aesthetic.