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Just did a kintsugi workshop today as birthday gift from my wife. Even though we didn't get to do the entire process ourselves (takes over a month) and didn't use real gold (it's a tin alloy), it was an awesome experience! Hoping to find the time to do a proper course in the future.

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Photo of a two people around a table with a tray containing a bowl and other utensils all covered in golden powder.
Upside down bowl inside a wooden box with a thin golden line running through the bowl.
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A table laid with green bowls and a jug, and the window behind it.

Cropped a little tighter this time.

📷 Canon AE-1 · Kodak 200
📍 Museumsdorf Niedersulz, Weinviertel
Second print of a negative I posted in October 2025: pixelfed.judesign.vision/p/goz…

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A table covered in a reddish patterned cloth stands in a dark room, lit only by a small window in the upper right corner. On the cloth sit three pale green scalloped bowls, a green enamel mug and a shallow green plate at the front, with two forks lying together at the right and the handle of a ladle resting in the left-hand bowl. The window has a brown-red frame and a thick, roughly plastered reveal that catches soft daylight; a green glazed jug with a chipped rim stands on its deep sill. Beyond the reveal the wall falls into near-black shadow, and the light on the tablecloth fades to dark toward the left edge. Colour photograph on 35mm film, with visible grain.

Martin Zeller (@gozella@pixelfed.judesign.vision)

A Visit to the Open-Air Museum Niedersulz, Austria – Part I A quiet glimpse into everyday life around 1900 — simple pottery, soft daylight, and the timeless calm of rural living.
Pixelfed
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On my not so WTF project, the failed glaze that began to look like Oribe ware to me, one has come out of the oven. There's a tiny bit of crawling, but I can rectify that because it needs to go back in with a final coat of food-safe glaze on top.

And, of course, a curious Dora. #Pottery #ceramics

Natural lighting photo of a small, green, and white, with black painted flowers hexagonal bowl on a black and white mosaic table. With a black and white cat's head in the top left hand corner of the shot.
Artificially lit image of the same bowl, sitting on a white tile.
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Meanwhile, I made up this recipe for Lana's Chun - a beautiful low fire recipe that seems interesting. In the recipe it is tinted with a small amount of copper carbonate, but I split the recipe in half, added the copper to half of it, and a tiny amount of cobalt oxide to the other, just to see what happens.

And also, I made some tiny little bowls with a few different colours of terra sig, to be bisqued, in preparation to see how they go with the glaze I just mixed up.
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Four white test tiles in a handmade rack and three small shallow bowls in very pale greens and blues
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Continuing on with my WTF experimentation, inspired by Mary Fox's book. I forgot to take a picture of the orange terra sigillata tiny plate once it came out of the kiln after the oxide wash and the borax went onto it. The oxide was was nice... But I was too timid with the borax sprinkles. In any case, onwards. It how has a base transparent glaze applied (the white), and then I interfered with the leftovers of it, and added some stains to the glaze mix, and did shit. #pottery #ceramics
Small plate with layers of glazes applied on top of each other in an abstractish pattern of swooshes and dots.
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I have a Shimpo banding wheel. It was about 65 Euros. There are other brands, probably just as good, but do not buy a cheap one online without knowing how solid it is. You need a really heavy one. If you get a cheap one that only spins a few times before stopping, you'll be so frustrated. So when you go down to your pottery supply place to buy the clay, ask to feel the wheels. The good ones will last a lifetime. #pottery #ceramics 7/ potterycrafters.com/the-best-b…

The Best Banding Wheels - Pottery Crafters

The Best Banding Wheels - The Shimpo-Nidec Banding Wheel - The US Art Supply Banding Wheel - The NATGAI Banding Wheel - And the Falling in Art Banding Wheel
Marie (Pottery Crafters)
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So what do you need? To begin with, a lot of what you need you can find in your kitchen.
1. Clay - I suggest white earthenware because it's cheap, easy to work with, and easy to recycle.
2. Sponge, string, trimming tools, an old credit card for smoothing. Old pillow case for rolling out. A rolling pin from your kitchen. Used plastic bags.
3. A banding wheel. This is really the only expensive purchase because you want a good, heavy one with really good centrifugal force. #pottery #ceramics 6/
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If you are interested in getting into pottery, and find the whole prospect daunting, I heartily suggest hand-building. It is often looked down on by the ceramics community, but that is stupid. Some of the most beautiful ceramic objects in the world are hand-built. It's not that I disdain the electric potters wheel, but my experience with handbuilding gave me so much knowledge and know-how that I would go on to use on a potters wheel. #ceramics #pottery 6/
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I still love pinch pots and coil building. It is the technique I use more than any other and most of my work - which you might think is thrown on a potters wheel - is actually made on a banding wheel.

I have the most amount of control. I am not driven by an inexorably turning wheel. I determine the speed, the amount of water, etc. (hand building uses far less clay and far less water). #pottery #ceramics 5/

Sugar bowl and lid made entirely on a banding wheel.
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When I moved onto the #pottery wheel, it was a steep, steep learning curve, and just getting my hands on it once a week meant that my progress was very slow. It's only after almost a year that I feel confident in slamming a ball of clay down on the wheel and knowing I can turn it into a fairly creditable pot. And still tend to throw things too thin for earthenware - which is what I work with. I still leave too much clay at the base. But yes, now, I can absolutely make you a vase. #ceramics 2/
Spiral scored white bisque vase
Classic sake bottle
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Crystal mountain lava floes, and an all tech planet (or maybe part of a dyson sphere?).

Also been brainstorming how to add rings!

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A space rock with red and grey swirled crystal mountains that shapes a wide river (that will become lava when glazed).
A space rock of a tech planet or perhaps the outside of a dyspn sphere. There are numerous sizes of geometric shapes and lines creating a fabricated surface.
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Anyway, it has set me off on a hunt for waste ingredients and detritus that could be used in ceramics. There's a lady in the market close to me who filets anchovies all day long. I am going to ask her for the fish bones. I am sure if I calcine them, I could use them as a kind of bone ash. Same with mussel and clam shells. I have a mortar. I can force these things into a use! Hahahahha. #pottery #ceramics
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If I am totally honest, I have found a lot of the online world of pottery glazes, like everything else, awash with consumerism. There are whole channels where people boast about how many Mayco glazes they own, and layer on top of each other. And they are so expensive. It really kind of put me off.

I find myself retreating to very simple ingredients and what can be done with them.

Clay, rust, eggshells, washing powder, vinegar, wood ash, seaweed ash, etc.
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In my ongoing feria of glaze experimentation in August, inspired by Mary Fox, I'm pursuing my little free hand project.

My little dish was brushed with a few coats of orange terra sig, and bisqued. Today I played around with a red iron oxide wash - a very simple material I am completely enamoured with. It settled nicely into the rough grooves I carved and I sponged some off around but not in the centre.
Then I brushed it with sticky CMC, and sprinkled on some borax. #pottery #ceramics

A small round orange plate on a blue banding wheel, with darker iron oxide stains in circles, and white powder (borax) sprinkled on top.
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