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Homecoming Tumbler Cup No. 4 of 6 | Soda Fired
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.
This one shows off everything soda firing does best. It has the same Titanium flashing slip as Tumbler No. 3, but here it came out a deeper burnt orange, pooling into rounded fingerprints that stack along the waist where I held it. Run your thumb over the body and you’ll feel the orange peel texture, a soft, pebbly surface that forms when the soda vapor melts into tiny beads of glaze, just like the skin of a citrus. It’s one of the most loved signs of a soda firing. Turn it in the light and you’ll also see flashing: one side glows warm and toasty where it faced the flame, and the other shimmers a cool, silvery blue-gray where the soda settled thickest. Around the rim, the soda pooled into a thin band of olive green. Inside, it’s a deep, toasty brown, and on the bottom, next to the wadding circles, signs of soda deposits in both soft pink and gray, a little map of where the heat and the soda met.
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.
This one shows off everything soda firing does best. It has the same Titanium flashing slip as Tumbler No. 3, but here it came out a deeper burnt orange, pooling into rounded fingerprints that stack along the waist where I held it. Run your thumb over the body and you’ll feel the orange peel texture, a soft, pebbly surface that forms when the soda vapor melts into tiny beads of glaze, just like the skin of a citrus. It’s one of the most loved signs of a soda firing. Turn it in the light and you’ll also see flashing: one side glows warm and toasty where it faced the flame, and the other shimmers a cool, silvery blue-gray where the soda settled thickest. Around the rim, the soda pooled into a thin band of olive green. Inside, it’s a deep, toasty brown, and on the bottom, next to the wadding circles, signs of soda deposits in both soft pink and gray, a little map of where the heat and the soda met.
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.
