Clarin (Clarin Clay Pipes)

Clarin is a small clay pipe workshop working in Caxias do Sul, in southern Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state. The workshop's founder and maker is craftswoman and musician Edna Bertin. The brand's starting point is to push back against the habit of treating the clay pipe as a cheap, disposable object, and instead to treat the body — as with briar pipes — as a piece worth handling individually and keeping.

Records indicate the first model was introduced in 2023; the copyright notice on the brand's official site gives the same year. Promotional texts present the pipes as "the first true Brazilian clay pipe"; this description is the brand's own claim and does not rest on an independent record.

Name and Founding Team

According to the story told, the brand's name comes from the clarion, an old wind instrument, and is a tribute to the grandfather who introduced Bertin to music in childhood; for now, this origin rests only on the brand's own promotional texts. Bertin worked in music for many years, first approached pipes as a collector, and moved into making them as her interest came to focus on clay bodies. Shaping and finishing are her own work. Some brand materials also credit Alexandre Vichinheski as a design partner; since this partnership does not appear on the workshop's official page or in encyclopedic records, it is not treated as confirmed.