These beautiful, one-of-a-kind dishes were individually handmade by artist Diane Irvine, who created them to raise money for Seedlings' mission of braille literacy.

There are eight place settings, which each include: a Dinner plate, Salad plate, Bowl, Bread and Butter plate, all with sterling silver leaf on them; embroidered napkin, sterling silver napkin ring and hand-blown drinking glass.

The salad plate and soup bowl have the same medallion on them. The dinner plate & bread and butter plates have different ones. The napkin rings are sterling silver.

The color scheme is gray/black. Although the pieces are not tactile, tiny bubbles in the glass represent braille dots.

Collection includes quilted storage containers.

Here is what Diane said about her work: "It was a challenge to myself to create something fun/difficult and that could end up doing something good. I'm normally not an artist who creates color pallets to match a project but this time with Seedlings as my motivation, my brain thought about darkness and light.

The process was for me to create a plate design and then put it into a digital format. Each size/kind of dish was digitally designed with the center mandela and trimmings around the edge. Once completed, I had stencils made for each size/kind of dish. The silver is actual silver leaf.

Once that was done I was able to have decals made for the center and rims of the  dishes. The next step was to purchase large flat sheets of glass: Gray and Clear. For each dish, I cut one gray circle and one clear circle of glass.

Each dish went through 3 firings (fusing, shaping and decal). These are then fired to about 1,490 degrees F so the two pieces of glass are fused together and become one. Next I cleaned the glass and 'slumped' it into a ceramic mold to shape the dish.

And finally I added the decals, and put the dishes back into the kiln so that the design was fused to the piece too.

The napkin rings were custom made as well. They started out as flat plain sterling silver. I cut the pieces out, and ran them through a rolling mill to add the design texture. Then I carefully used a silicone mallet and a steel shaper and gently hammered the pieces into shape.

The drinking glasses are blown glass. I used to blow glass at a studio in Ypsilanti. These are made just like you see at Greenfield Village. One gathers molten glass on a blow pipe and makes/shapes a glass using your breath and some tools. The black lips are glass that is carefully 'wrapped' around the lip of the glass at the end of the process.

While I did do the embroidery on the napkins - I did not make the napkins! I purchased linen napkins and did the embroidery on an embroidery sewing machine.

So, each piece was individually hand made. And, because I designed and implemented the pattern designs on the dishes they are 100% created and not available to purchase any place else!"