A tumbler made for your hands with a hand-altered waist that knows exactly how you’ll hold it. Your thumb finds the indent. Your palm settles into the curve. Finally, a cup that holds you back.
This one is from my Soda Fired Fall Collection, and the outside isn’t covered in glaze like most pottery. Before the firing, I dip my hands in flashing slip, a thin layer of liquid clay, and hold the cup right at the alteration point, leaving my handprint behind. Then, during the firing, soda ash is sprayed into the hot kiln, turns into vapor, and becomes glaze wherever it lands. The golden bronze you see is the brown stoneware, the slip, and the soda all reacting to each other, so the handprint comes out differently every time. The inside is glazed by pouring glaze in and pouring it right back out. Flip it over and you’ll find little circles on the bottom from the wadding it sat on in the kiln, where the raw clay stayed bare.
[About this piece: flashing slip used (Titanium, Helmar, or Tile #6), interior color (rosy pink, toasty brown, or slate white), and what makes this one unique, like where the soda hit hardest, how the handprint came out, or any color shifts.]
About 4 to 4.5 inches tall and holds 8 to 10 ounces. Every piece is one of one, so the one in the photos is the one you’ll get.
Want a matching set? Each tumbler came out of the same soda firing, so they all share that golden bronze glow but carry their own handprints. Find its sisters in Tumblers and mix and match your favorites.
A tumbler made for your hands with a hand-altered waist that knows exactly how you’ll hold it. Your thumb finds the indent. Your palm settles into the curve. Finally, a cup that holds you back.
This one is from my Soda Fired Fall Collection, and the outside isn’t covered in glaze like most pottery. Before the firing, I dip my hands in flashing slip, a thin layer of liquid clay, and hold the cup right at the alteration point, leaving my handprint behind. Then, during the firing, soda ash is sprayed into the hot kiln, turns into vapor, and becomes glaze wherever it lands. The golden bronze you see is the brown stoneware, the slip, and the soda all reacting to each other, so the handprint comes out differently every time. The inside is glazed by pouring glaze in and pouring it right back out. Flip it over and you’ll find little circles on the bottom from the wadding it sat on in the kiln, where the raw clay stayed bare.
[About this piece: flashing slip used (Titanium, Helmar, or Tile #6), interior color (rosy pink, toasty brown, or slate white), and what makes this one unique, like where the soda hit hardest, how the handprint came out, or any color shifts.]
About 4 to 4.5 inches tall and holds 8 to 10 ounces. Every piece is one of one, so the one in the photos is the one you’ll get.
Want a matching set? Each tumbler came out of the same soda firing, so they all share that golden bronze glow but carry their own handprints. Find its sisters in Tumblers and mix and match your favorites.
