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Homecoming Tumbler Cup No. 3 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 is one of the tumblers with a flashing slip called Titanium, and it fired into a warm golden amber. You can see every single fingertip on this one. The prints sit in soft, rounded ovals stacked up the side, exactly where my fingers pressed into the waist, almost like a row of little golden thumbprints. The soda gave the bronze body a glossy shimmer with a pebbly, orange-peel texture that catches the light in silvery streaks, and a thin line of blue-gray traces the rim. Inside, it’s the same rosy pink as Tumbler No. 1, deepening to berry, with a little glassy pool of pale blue at the very bottom where the glaze gathered. Flip it over and the bottom has a soft pink blush around the carved pooterie and the wadding circles, a little extra color from the fire.
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 is one of the tumblers with a flashing slip called Titanium, and it fired into a warm golden amber. You can see every single fingertip on this one. The prints sit in soft, rounded ovals stacked up the side, exactly where my fingers pressed into the waist, almost like a row of little golden thumbprints. The soda gave the bronze body a glossy shimmer with a pebbly, orange-peel texture that catches the light in silvery streaks, and a thin line of blue-gray traces the rim. Inside, it’s the same rosy pink as Tumbler No. 1, deepening to berry, with a little glassy pool of pale blue at the very bottom where the glaze gathered. Flip it over and the bottom has a soft pink blush around the carved pooterie and the wadding circles, a little extra color from the fire.
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.
