September 30, 2018

I'll Tumble For Ya

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✨cup✨

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September 28, 2018

Platter Platter

September 25, 2018

Rainy Day Auction


I'm auctioning this cup off over at my Instagram feed. Click here to check it out and win! (if you are the highest bidder)

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Here is an example of what’s known in NC as “swirlware”. A kind of hybrid of the alkaline glazed pottery of the Catawba Valley, a short distance to the east near Hickory NC and a japanese form called yunomi. The swirl design is porcelain clay thrown in the iron rich “home clay”, a mixture of local red dirt and fireclay, and wood fired. It is glazed with a clear amber and has a subtle wax resist botanical pattern .

Height is 4.5” (11.4cm) and holds 14 oz (414mL)

signed “Kline” ~ 2013

September 23, 2018

Cut Plate From 19

September 21, 2018

I Periscoped And I Liked It

September 20, 2018

Throwback Ramen Shaving Thursdsay




More ramen bowls are on the way! 🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜 Some say trimming, some say cutting. Why doesn’t anyone call it shaving? What do you call it? Please keep your answers/comments clean. ✨🔪✨ •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••🎶Shaving Cream written by Benny Bell and sung by Paul Wynn 1946🎶••••••••••••••#ramennoodles #ramennation #🍜 #throwbackthursday #Koreanpotteryinfluence #mishima #sanggam #opasanggamstyle #керамика #seramikler #keraamika #kulolchilik #кераміка #seramik #cerámica #cerámica #clay #inlay #krukmakare #kastruller THANKS to #hammondspretzels for sponsoring the production of this bowl. #potteryvideo #potteryvideos #sprucepinepottersmarket @sprucepinepottersmarket
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September 17, 2018

Horezu Romanian Pottery

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Next for PIAbadasswomen are the traditional potters of Horezu, a Romanian pottery form from northern Vâlcea County, Romania. The tasks that go into making this pottery are divided by gender. . According to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage database, “The women decorate the objects using specific techniques and tools to draw traditional motifs. Their skill in combining decoration and colour defines the personality and uniqueness of these ceramics. The colours are vivid shades of dark brown, red, green, blue and ‘Horezu ivory’. The object is then fired. The potters use traditional tools: a mixer for cleaning the earth, a potter’s wheel and comb for shaping, a hollowed-out bull’s horn and a fine wire-tipped stick for decoration, and a wood-burning stove for firing.” Men are responsible for preparing the clay. . The article did not say if the potters who shape the pots are typically women or men, but in the full length video, I saw both men and women performing this role. If anyone has more information on this, feel free to chime in in the comments. –@deebalm This video has been edited. View the entire 9 minute video from UNESCO at the link in profile. . . #slipdecoration #collectivework #horezu #unescointangibleculturalheritage #thisiscraft

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September 16, 2018

Grace Hall Parker

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Colonial New England potter Grace Hall Parker for #PIAbadasswomen. Born in 1697, she is the first woman in the region known to have run a production pottery in her name and is credited with introducing high temperature, salt-glazed stoneware production to a corner of New England where high-temperature clays are not naturally occurring. Charlestown (now a part of Boston), Massachusetts was the site of many redware potteries in the 1700s, including Grace Parker’s successful workshop which she ran with her husband Isaac. In 1740, the Parkers decided to expand their repertoire to include stoneware production, which meant importing clays from New York and Pennsylvania at great expense. Isaac took out loans and mortgaged six lots of land to raise the necessary funds – and he died three weeks later. Grace chose to “undertake and carry on the trade or mistery of making stoneware” after Isaac’s death, and secured a monopoly on stoneware production from the Massachusetts General Court, making hers the only pottery in the Massachusetts Bay Colony allowed to produce stoneware for 15 years. The story doesn’t end there, so you’ll have to visit the link in profile to read more about the challenges Grace Parker faced. . As a ceramic artist working in Boston in 2018, I will note that local clays are among the hardest to obtain. . Image credits: The stoneware jug is from the online collection database on the @historicnewengland website. The listing for this object includes notes from the previous owner, Joan Jockwig Pearson Watkins (google her), who believed that the jug very well could have been produced by the Parker pottery. The image of the redware milkpan - a shallow dish used for separating milk from cream - found at the Parker-Harris archaeological site, is from the Massachusetts Historical Commission’s Archaeological Exhibit Online [Link in profile.] The city of Boston Archaeologist @bostonarchaeo occasionally posts sherds from the Parker-Harris site. More information and images can be found on the Massachusetts Historical Commission’s Archaeological Exhibit online. – @deebalm . #gracehallparker #earlynewenglandpottersandtheirwares #digbos #boston #charlestownMA

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Elisa Helland-Hansen does Deco!

September 15, 2018

Mass Deco Production

Daisy Stamping

September 11, 2018

It Helps To Have An Apprentice

September 10, 2018

Back To Work

September 7, 2018

View from The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC

September 6, 2018

Cousins In The Mountains 2018

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